Mar 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
A new U.S. Forest Service report provides updated national estimates of forest area, growth, mortality rate, and other information, including timber products output. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientist Sonja Oswalt coordinated the assessment....
Feb 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
A recent report by the U.S. Forest Service shows that for over 19 million people in the South – roughly the population of Florida – clean drinking water begins in the region’s national forests. The report provides information at a level not previously available on the...
Feb 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
An informational meeting regarding North Carolina logging and the U.S. Forest Service’s long term plans for the Big Ivy section of the Pisgah National Forest drew about 200 people in Barnardsville Feb. 5, with another 100 waiting outside to get in. The crowd voiced...
Feb 4, 2015 | News, News/PR
A recently released study led by U.S. Forest Service scientists and published by the Forest Service’s Southern Research Station (SRS) finds that policies in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere requiring the use of renewable and low greenhouse gas-emitting...
Nov 19, 2014 | News, News/PR
Over the objection of environmental groups and Virginia’s governor, a federal management plan released Tuesday will allow a form of natural gas drilling known as fracking to occur in parts of the largest national forest on the East Coast. The U.S. Forest Service...
