by Web Editor | Apr 9, 2012 | News, News/PR
State forestry agencies in the South are bracing for the potential arrival of the emerald ash borer. Agencies, like the Georgia Forestry Commission, are putting out traps to capture the beetles that attack ash trees. The beetles have been found as far south as...
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 | Nov 18, 2011 | News
The U.S. Forest Service recently announced that the agency has protected one million acres of forest through its Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program. The millionth-acre milestone was reached on private land in New Kent County, Va., as a result of the Logger...
by Web Editor | Nov 14, 2011 | News
President Obama’s 2012 budget proposal calls for a five-year extension of an act that provides funding to historically forest-dependent communities that have been impacted over the last several decades by downturns in the forest products industry. The Secure Rural...
by Web Editor | Nov 4, 2011 | News
North Carolina State University will use a $4 million grant to study the most efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly ways of producing biofuels from trees and from forest harvesting residue. NC State is part of the Southeast Partnership for Integrated...
