Mar 21, 2018 | News, News/PR
After 129 years in business, Mississippi-based lumber operation Anderson-Tully has been sold to an unnamed company. 158 employees will lose their jobs. Anderson-Tully, who manages over 300,000 acres of hardwoods timberlands throughout Mississippi, Arkansas, and...
Mar 14, 2018 | News, News/PR
President Donald Trump’s administration moved quickly last week to install a female wildland firefighter to lead the U.S. Forest Service after the agency’s former chief stepped down amid sexual misconduct allegations. The appointment of Vickie Christiansen as interim...
Mar 12, 2018 | News, News/PR
Despite Hurricane Harvey’s creation of hundreds of construction projects, lumber companies in East Texas are still hurting. “I would’ve called you a liar if you would have told me that when Hurricane Harvey hit that it wouldn’t have just blown...
Mar 7, 2018 | News, News/PR
A commercial logging bill left “in limbo” has been declared dead for the session. Senate Bill 270, which would have allowed commercial logging in state parks to pay for park maintenance, was left in the Senate’s Natural Resources Committee about three weeks ago, when...
Mar 5, 2018 | News, News/PR
Friday’s high winds caused several fires across the state. Since Friday, Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) firefighters responded to 127 fires that covered about 690 acres across the state. Forestry crews say the largest fire covered more than 302 acres....
Feb 26, 2018 | News, News/PR
Canadian lumber giant Canfor Corp. has announced plans to build a $120 million (USD), state-of-the-art sawmill in Washington, Georgia. The new softwood lumber mill will have a production capacity of 275 million board feet and produce high-value dimension and specialty...
