Jan 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
Funding from the U.S. Forest Service certainly served its purpose of enhancing undergraduate research at Delta State University (DSU) in Cleveland, Mississippi. Almost three years ago, Tanya McKinney and Ellen Green, associate professors of biology at DSU, started...
Dec 3, 2012 | News, News/PR
One hundred years ago the Blue Ridge Mountains were covered in American chestnut trees, which made up roughly a quarter of the canopy. The chestnut blight, an imported fungal infection first noticed in New York in 1904, had by the ’50s spread throughout...
Nov 14, 2012 | News, News/PR
Each year, thousands of volunteers across the country participate in the largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands in America, National Public Lands Day. Students and staff of the Oconaluftee Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center contributed over 250 hours...
Oct 1, 2012 | News, News/PR
Where did more than 35,000 moms, dads, children, and their friends go for fun-filled, “buggy” entertainment, activities, and cuisine this year? They all showed up early and stayed late for the 16th annual Bugfest hosted by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences...
Sep 17, 2012 | News, News/PR
Officials have canceled a proposal for commercial logging in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rockcastle County that had caused concern about the potential impact on a pristine spring and trees hundreds of years old. An official with the U.S. Forest Service...
