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Alabama’s Westervelt Helping To Restore An Endangered Species
John Wigginton, machete at the ready, chopped his way through the thick understory of privet, sumac and blackberry brambles one recent June afternoon. Logging trucks, bunchers and skidders rumbled in the distance. It had rained heavily; mosquitoes and deer flies...
App Supports Growth Of Texas Forest Products Industry
Angelina Forest Products, LLC recently announced plans to open a $100 million sawmill in Lufkin, Texas. The softwood mill is expected to be in place by spring of 2019, creating 100 full-time jobs and contributing $52 million to the Texas economy in its first year. “We...
Invasive Plants Taking Over More Georgia Forests And Grasslands
State officials say foreign invasive plants are continuing to take over Georgia’s forests and grasslands. One of them, Asian privet, now infests more than a million acres in the state, The Athens Banner-Herald reported. That’s according to recently released Georgia...
Clemson University Students Prepare For Fighting Wildfires
Clemson University is holding students’ feet to the fire – literally – as it prepares them to take leadership roles in one of the most dangerous and underserved aspects in the forestry industry. Fire Tigers is a 15-member group of Clemson forestry and wildlife...
Arkansas Family Donates $7.5 Million For University’s Timber Design Center
University of Arkansas alumnus John Ed Anthony and his wife, Isabel, are contributing $7.5 million to support the construction of a new $15 million materials innovation center in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. The center...
New Phloem App Tracks Timber And Trucking
Digital technology might not be the first thing you think of when thinking about the logging and timber industry, but one Savannah entrepreneur hopes to changes that. “We’re hoping to be a disrupter of the business,” said Dean McCraw of Phloem, a mobile app for the...
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