by Web Editor | Jan 30, 2012 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service recently announced that it is granting $52.2 million for 17 conservation and working lands projects across the U.S. in 2012. The Forest Legacy Program has protected 2.2 million acres through public-private partnership using federal and...
by Web Editor | Jan 27, 2012 | News, News/PR
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack yesterday signaled the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s intent to issue a new planning rule for America’s 193-million acre National Forest System that seeks to deliver stronger protections for forests, water, and wildlife while...
by Web Editor | Jan 23, 2012 | News, News/PR
Resource managers at the nation’s 155 national forests now have a set of science-based guidelines to help them manage their landscapes for resilience to climate change. Developed by the U.S. Forest Service’s western research stations, the four-part framework details a...
by Web Editor | Jan 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
Trees are one of Earth’s largest banks for storing the carbon that gets emitted by natural processes and human activities. Forests cover about 30% of the planet’s surface, and as much as 45% of the carbon stored on land is tied up in forests. But did global forests...
by Web Editor | Jan 16, 2012 | News, News/PR
Sonoco will invest $100 million over the next three years to build a biomass boiler and make other improvements at its Hartsville, SC plant site. The $75 million biomass facility will replace two aging coal-fired boilers that have been in use at the plant for 60...
by Web Editor | Jan 13, 2012 | News, News/PR
Canal Wood Takes Hit For Timber Practices Canal Wood, the nation’s largest privately held provider of wood fiber supply chain services, has paid the U.S. government $520,064 as settlement related to findings that Canal failed to report approximately 1,000 timber scale...
