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Rex Lumber Receiving Grant To Aid $110 Million Alabama Sawmill Project
A major Wiregrass project is getting a $500,000 grant to speed it along. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey recently announced a community development block grant to assist Rex Lumber Co. in constructing a $110 million sawmill operation in Pike County that will employ 110 people....
Team Safe Trucking Releasing 30 Training Modules In 2018
Team Safe Trucking has been working on developing a Forestry Transportation Training Program for Forestry Transportation professionals since 2015. This year the organization has hired Miranda Gowell, a Safety Director from Maine. Miranda has been working on the...
U.S. Forest Service Prepares For Southern Pine Beetle In Mississippi
The U.S. Forest Service announced early signs indicating national forest lands will face a second consecutive year of a severe southern pine beetle outbreak threatening to damage tens of thousands of acres of pine forests in Mississippi. Forest Service scientists...
Vicksburg Forest Products To Reopen Anderson-Tully Sawmill In Mississippi
Two months after it was initially announced, the sale of Anderson-Tully became official Monday. The Vicksburg-based sawmill was purchased by Vicksburg Forest Products LLC., which is headquartered in Jackson. The parent company of Vicksburg Forest Products also owns...
UGA Forestry School Sponsoring Logging Cost Analysis Course
The University Of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources will sponsor a logging cost analysis course to be held June 12-13 at the Cunningham Research Station, 200 Cunningham Road, in Kinston, NC. The course will be presented by Dr. Joe Conrad, an...
Canfor Investing $40 Million To Upgrade South Carolina Sawmill
Canfor Southern Pine, a leading integrated forest products company, will invest $40 million to upgrade its existing sawmill in Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina. A leading manufacturer of high-quality Southern yellow pine lumber, Canfor Southern Pine operates 14...
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