Aug 26, 2015 | News, News/PR
Record amounts of spring rains may have ended the five-year Texas drought, but it has also provided bountiful fuel for more than 200 wildfires that cropped up around the state last week. Officials with the Texas A&M Forest Service and rangeland resource experts...
Aug 5, 2015 | News, News/PR
Responding to a request from the U.S. Forest Service, the South Carolina Forestry Commission has sent seven of its wildland firefighters to join crews battling more than 30 wildfires around Redding, Calif. Accompanied by three members of the Horry County Fire Rescue...
Jul 31, 2015 | News, News/PR
The LSU AgCenter and the U.S. Forest Service plan to release hundreds of tiny, nonnative wasps Tuesday in north Louisiana. It’s the second such release of the parasitoid wasp in an ongoing effort to contain damage from an invasive beetle killing native ash trees...
Jul 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
Efforts are under way in north Louisiana to slow the spread of an invasive species, the emerald ash borer, that threatens to destroy native ash trees. The trees play an important part in bottomland ecosystems and also have an economic value to the timber industry....
Jul 8, 2015 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has approved a grant sought by Kentucky and Tennessee in their effort to protect hemlock trees threatened by an invasive pest, officials from both states said. The hemlock woolly adelgid, an Asian insect that was first found in Virginia in the...
