by Web Editor | Sep 23, 2015 | News, News/PR
Congressman Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (PA-05) and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) today announced the award of $60,260 in grant funding to the Pennsylvania State University, which will be used to educate landowners on the protection of forests for future generations. The funding for...
by Web Editor | Aug 10, 2015 | News, News/PR
For the first time in its 110-year history, the Forest Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is spending more than 50 percent of its budget to suppress the nation’s wildfires. A new report released today by the Forest Service estimates that within...
by Web Editor | Apr 1, 2015 | News, News/PR
Forests and forest products have long represented a substantial resource endowment in the United States. The nation consumes and produces, when aggregated across product categories, more forest products than any other country. A recent report entitled “The...
by Web Editor | Mar 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving $37 million dollars to South Dakota so a number of forest districts in the country can be thinned, including one district in the Black Hills. Sixty-five hundred acres in the Hell Canyon Ranger District of the Black Hills...
by Web Editor | Oct 8, 2014 | News, News/PR
A female beetle decoy may soon rid the United States of the destructive emerald ash borer. An international team of researchers has developed a decoy female ash borer that attracts, then electrocutes the male beetles as they land on it to mate. The results of the...