Sep 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
Carter Lumber is building a new manufacturing facility in Lexington. The Ohio-based company, which has a lumber yard in Welcome, is opening the facility on Old Hargrave Road to expand its presence in the Southeast. Mark Ely, director of marketing for Carter Lumber,...
Jun 5, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Endowment Fund of N.C. State University has chosen a national nonprofit organization to handle land-use negotiations for the 79,000-acre Hofmann Forest. The Conservation Fund, based in Virginia, has a dual mission of environmental protection and economic...
Mar 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
Months into his Forest Service career, Danny Lee stood amid a vast, charred forest in Idaho where a wildfire had consumed a quarter of a million acres, its temperatures hot to enough melt glass bottles. “I thought I was joining the Forest Service to swim around...
Mar 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
Some of the oldest trees in North Carolina have been here for more than 400 years. The North Carolina Forest Service that tends them isn’t quite so old, but it’s getting up there — 2015 marks its centennial. “It’s a really exciting time for us,” said Tom James,...
Feb 25, 2015 | News, News/PR
Officials with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry say the emerald ash borer (EAB), a severe insect pest of ash trees, has been confirmed in Webster Parish making Louisiana the 25th state to confirm the presence of this beetle. Experts say the EAB is...
