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Wood Supply Research Institute (WSRI) Executive Director Jim Fendig has announced his intent to retire after the May 4, 2016 WSRI Annual Meeting. The WSRI Board is now seeking applications for the position of WSRI Executive Director. Click here for … Continue reading
Don’t be alarmed if you see smoking rising from the Sandy Creek Nature Center off Commerce Road in Athens-Clarke County sometime in the next couple of months. A part of the Sandy Creek Nature Center’s forest is scheduled to go … Continue reading
In 2013, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) created a new Law Enforcement Division to consolidate the law enforcement and public safety activities previously performed by various DNR divisions. DNR plans to complete the transition to a unified Law Enforcement … Continue reading
The state Department of Natural Resources board voted unanimously Wednesday to approve .27-acre easements along six Southwest Georgia waterways that will allow the Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline to pass under the waterways. The board’s action, coming in the wake … Continue reading
International Forest Company (IFCO), Dougherty & Dougherty Forestry Services, Inc. (DDFSI) and the Forest Landowners Association (FLA) will be hosting the second annual Forest inSight Conference at the Rainwater Conference Center in Valdosta, Ga., on Oct. 27-29. To access the full … Continue reading
On Sept. 17, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, in partnership with the Softwood Lumber Board and the Binational Softwood Lumber Council, announced the winners of the U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize Competition. The two winning development teams were granted … Continue reading
No one knows for sure why some pine boards are weaker today than they were a decade ago, but it seems modern growing techniques – genetic selection, fertilizing and thinning for maximum growth – aren’t the problem. In 2013, the … Continue reading
At this year’s Georgia Environmental Conference, the Georgia Forestry Association hosted two sessions to convey the importance of working forests to drinking water and discuss the utilization of wood as a sustainable building material. The three-day conference, held Aug. 26-28 … Continue reading
Bleckley County Tree Farmer and Georgia Forestry Association member Earl Barrs has been nominated to serve on the Agriculture Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB). According to the EPA, the committee will provide advice to the … Continue reading
On June 17, Kinder Morgan, the third largest energy company in North America, filed a petition challenging the Georgia Department of Transportation’s (GDOT) ruling forbidding the company from using eminent domain to take private property from homeowners for its Palmetto … Continue reading