by Web Editor | Feb 24, 2012 | News, News/PR
An estimated 5.6 million trees that once shaded homes, streets and parks in communities across Texas now are dead as a result of last year’s unrelenting drought. The finding comes from a study conducted by Texas Forest Service urban foresters, who spent the last month...
by Web Editor | Feb 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
New Mexico passed Senate Bill 1 in 2001 to allow counties to manage national forest lands under certain circumstances that U.S. Forest Service personnel couldn’t handle, and now that Otero County passed a resolution in 2011 to do just that, the Forest Service...
by Web Editor | Feb 17, 2012 | News, News/PR
This year, the Kentucky Division of Forestry (KDF) is celebrating its 100th anniversary. To help commemorate KDF’s Centennial and to acknowledge its employees both past and present, Gov. Steve Beshear signed a proclamation this week declaring 2012 as “The Year...
by Web Editor | Feb 13, 2012 | News, News/PR
John Shannon has resigned as Arkansas State Forester following a legislative audit that questioned financial practices at the Arkansas Forestry Commission that led to the layoff of 34 employees. Shannon’s decision came after reviewing the results of the Division of...
by Web Editor | Feb 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
Relatively low fossil fuel prices have reduced the demand and prices of woody biomass throughout the U.S. the past three years, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review. The Pacific Northwest currently has the lowest biomass prices, slightly lower than the South,...
by Web Editor | Feb 6, 2012 | News, News/PR
The Western Forestry Leadership Coalition (WFLC) recently gathered to discuss priority issues and strategies for western forests. A key component driving the WFLC’s 2012 focus was the release of their new publication, Across the Western Landscape: Priority Issues and...
