Dec 2, 2013 | News, News/PR
On a brisk morning in north Georgia, U.S. Forest Service employees prepared for a “Kids in the Wood”’ excursion to Scull Shoals with students from the local Union Point STEAM (STEM plus the arts) Academy and Elementary School, the first rural K-8 STEAM school in...
Nov 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
A trio of North Carolina conservation groups are appealing a local district ranger’s decision to log the Courthouse Creek drainage of the Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County. On behalf of WildSouth, the Wilderness Society and the Western North Carolina...
Nov 15, 2013 | News, News/PR
Firefighters are still battling a wildfire that has burned more than 300 acres of the Talladega National Forest in Calhoun County. So far, 319 acres of forest have burned near the Rabbittown community. Officials estimate a total of 566 acres will burn before the fire...
Oct 28, 2013 | News, News/PR
In an effort to reduce wildfire hazards on private lands, Texas A&M Forest Service is administering grant funding for prescribed burning on private property within 10 miles of a National Forest boundary through the U.S. Forest Service’s Community Protection...
Oct 14, 2013 | News, News/PR
Earlier this year, Louisiana logger Travis Taylor and Louisiana U.S. Forest Service employee Holly Morgan proposed a forestry machine operators’ program in the state. The outgrowth of their suggestions, which included the curriculum, was a pilot project—the first...
