Jul 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Nature Conservancy has purchased a conservation easement on 12,418 acres between the Savannah and Coosawhatchie rivers in South Carolina. The easement, on The Westervelt Co.’s timberlands near the towns of Allendale and Hampton, is the fourth largest in state...
Feb 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
With years of experience under his belt, Bill Rivers looked to the rising smoke coming off the burning undergrowth at a longleaf pine forest in St. Tammany Parish and wasn’t pleased. “It wobbled,” he said, referring to the winds on Jan. 30 that seemed to take the...
Aug 22, 2014 | News, News/PR
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and International Paper (IP) recently announced $743,000 in grants to support forestland restoration and working forests throughout the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama. The American Forest...
Aug 6, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Nature Conservancy, Texas A&M Forest Service, and the U.S. Forest Service have collaborated to purchase a conservation easement on 4,785 acres of forestland in the Longleaf Ridge area of East Texas, permanently protecting some of the best longleaf pine habitat...
Aug 1, 2014 | News, News/PR
As the climate warms, the vine that ate the U.S. South is starting to gnaw at parts of the North, too. Kudzu, a three-leafed weed first planted in the U.S. more than 100 years ago for the beauty of its purple blossoms, has been spotted in every county in Georgia,...
