Mar 13, 2017 | News, News/PR
South Carolina Forestry Commission officials are issuing a Red Flag Fire Alert on Friday after more than 50 wildfires burned statewide on Thursday, including a roughly 100-acre blaze in Colleton County. Doug Wood, a commission spokesman, said there were 54 active...
Oct 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
Hurricane Matthew has come and gone, but the South Carolina Forestry Commission’s statewide burning ban remains in effect. A State Forester’s Burning Ban prohibits outdoor burning, which includes yard debris burning and burning for forestry, wildlife or agricultural...
Aug 1, 2016 | News, News/PR
The Southern Group of State Foresters’ (SGSF) Communications Committee held its annual summer meeting in Charleston, S.C., July 25-28 to review and update its strategic plan for the coming year and begin work on several new regional outreach projects promoting...
Feb 24, 2016 | News, News/PR
The forestry sector in South Carolina has an annual economic impact of $18.6 billion, employs more than 90,000 people, is the largest harvested crop at $759 million and is the No. 1 export commodity from the Port of Charleston at $1.5 billion. And yet, there remains...
Feb 8, 2016 | News, News/PR
The South Carolina Forestry Commission has raised its estimate of economic impact loss to the state’s forest products industry from last year’s historic flooding to $100 million. The agency derived its initial impact assessment of $65 million in October 2015 from...