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TFA Presents Logger Award To Futral
Left to right: Kelly Underwood, Deaven Futral, Bob Harper, Dave Duren. Image Courtesy of Texas Forestry Association Texas Forestry Association (TFA) presented Deaven Futral, owner and operator of Southern Logging, LLC, with the Outstanding Logger of the Year award...
West Virginia Students Gain Tree Falling Skills
WVDOF employees Jesse King (far left) and Johnny King (far right) are joined by GSC students (left to right) Katlyne Rollyson, Dylan Fitzgerald, Jonathan Myles Hutton, Lexi Fletcher, and Heather Moore after the timber felling and chainsaw safety workshop. Training...
AFF Awards Grant To Prairie View A&M
The American Forest Foundation (AFF) recently awarded Prairie View A&M University a two-year grant to implement the Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention (SFLR) Program in Texas. The $310,000 grant will allow Prairie View A&M University’s...
Hurricane Laura Packs Louisiana Punch
Loggers and landowners in Louisiana experienced a year’s worth of timber harvests overnight as more than 758,000 acres of timberland were badly damaged by Hurricane Laura in late August. That includes more than 3.5 billion BF of sawtimber…
Pellet Mill Planned For South Carolina
Effingham Pellets, a subsidiary of Charles Ingram Lumber Co., plans to invest $5.4 million to establish a wood pellet operation in Florence County, SC that will produce and supply wood pellets for export sale to Europe. "We are excited to begin operations in Florence...
Loggers Take Center Stage At RNC
Wednesday, August 26, viewers of the Republican National Convention, perhaps hoping to see Vice President Pence or iconic football coach/analyst (and noted master of elocution and enunciation) Lou Holtz speak, instead had a pleasant surprise. A representative of the...
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