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IP Closure Announcement Continues Market Shift
The pulp and paper industry continues its painful supply side market shift as officials with International Paper in late October announced the company will permanently close its containerboard mill in Orange, Tex., and will permanently cease…
Louisiana Grapples With Largest Ever Wildfire
The arson-caused Tiger Island Fire in Louisiana is the state’s largest on record at 31,000 acres and was 50% contained in early September, according to news reports. The wildfire is one of almost 600 wildland fires that have burned in the state in…
GP Donates $100,000 To Volunteer Fire Department In Corrigan, Texas
The Corrigan Volunteer Fire Department, which has close to 25 active volunteers and answered more than 150 emergency calls in 2022, has kicked off a capital campaign to build a new fire station, which will cost $400,000. In support of this…
Need To Create Bird Habitat? Call A Logger
The American Loggers Council (ALC) and American Bird Conservancy (ABC) toured a site near Natchitoches, La., to discuss the essential role logging and loggers play in maintaining healthy ecosystems for bird habitats. In attendance were David Cupp,…
Auburn Receives Donation Of Coach Dye’s Crooked Oaks Farm
The Auburn University Real Estate Foundation (AUREF) and the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment (CFWE) has accepted a gift of 415 acres of Crooked Oaks Farm, legendary Auburn football coach Pat Dye’s homestead. Located in Notasulga, Ala….
Lucky Branch Tract Finds Some Luck
The Lucky Branch tract, an 80-acre parcel of bottomland hardwood forest situated next to the Little River and Uwharrie National Forest in Montgomery County, North Carolina, has been conserved thanks in part to a grant provided by the Enviva Forest…
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