Jul 31, 2017 | News, News/PR
As the debate about the carbon benefits of generating electricity in Europe from wood pellets manufactured in the southern United States continues, a new Forest2Market report shows that growth in demand for forest products (e.g., lumber, paper, packaging and wood...
Jul 28, 2017 | News, News/PR
Recently, I had the honor of testifying before the Senate Committee on Agriculture to discuss the future of the Farm Bill’s forestry and conservation tools and how they apply to family forest owners. From the perspective of an Alabama Tree Farmer and avid...
Jul 24, 2017 | News, News/PR
The economic impact of agriculture and forestry in Virginia was $91 billion in 2016, up 30 percent from $70 billion in 2013, state officials announced Tuesday. The total employment impact of the two industries increased by about 7 percent to 442,200 jobs, or about 9...
Jul 21, 2017 | News, News/PR
A multi-million dollar sawmill project in Demopolis continues to make progress. The new state-of-the-art sawmill is expected to bring more than new fifty jobs to the area. Demopolis Mayor John Laney says the Two Rivers Lumber Company sawmill project is steadily moving...
Jul 19, 2017 | News, News/PR
Western wildfires are the headline grabbers, but forests in the eastern United States are also fire-dependent and increasingly at risk because of fire exclusion, according to a researcher at Penn State University. “Many people have been lulled into believing that it...
Jul 17, 2017 | News, News/PR
A bill before Congress would give Arkansas a greater share of the U.S. Forest Service’s budget, according to its sponsor. Opponents argue it would also ease restrictions on clear-cutting those forests. House Bill 2936 of 2017 would allow national forests in...
