May 28, 2014 | News, News/PR
A battle against a growing southern pine beetle infestation in Mississippi’s Tombigbee National Forest will be fought by the U.S. Forest Service using designations authorized in the 2014 farm bill. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) yesterday officially designated...
Feb 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
Thanks to a $3 million federal grant, the N.C. Forest Service and its conservation partners have now protected more than 40 percent of a fledgling 8,000-acre Headwaters State Forest in southern Transylvania County. On Tuesday, state forestry officials announced they...
Dec 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
Conservation groups reached an agreement with the Forest Service that will allow the agency to move forward with the controversial Courthouse Creek timber sale. The agreement reduces the size of the timber sale, removing logging from significant ecological areas and...
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 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...