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Secretary’s Honor Award for Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan with Honor Award Group Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program. Photo by USDA Bob Nichols. On September 12, the team...
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CRAFTING Future Forests
Successful restoration of longleaf pine forests requires frequent fires. Photo by USDA Forest Service. Over the past few years, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC)scientists...
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New Short Course for Land Managers Facing Climate Change
What role do forests and grasslands play in storing carbon and offsetting the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change? What options exist for encouraging carbon storage in forests,...
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Dealing With Trees Damaged by Hurricanes
Hurricane-damaged trees can in turn damage houses and other property. Photo by Eric Kuehler, USDA Forest Service. Hurricanes bring winds that can exceed 125 miles per hour, heavy rain, and flooding—any...
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Interior Forest on the Wane in the United States
Human activities often fragment forests. Photo by Larry Korhnak. Interior forest, which can be simply defined as forest area surrounded by more forest, supports a wide range of plants and animals that...
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SRS-Funded Forest Project Wins National Award
Grant recipient Tom Elmore harvests shiitake mushrooms on his farm in western North Carolina. Photo by Steve Dixon, courtesy of the Asheville Citizen-Times. The Western North Carolina Forest Project,...
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Containers, Copper, and Longleaf Pine Roots
Longleaf pine seedling toppled by a storm. Photo by Mary Anne S. Sayer. Do the types of container used to grow longleaf pine seedlings really make that much difference? Researchers based in the...
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Non-Timber Forest Products
Jim Chamberlain holding ramp. Photo by Gary Kauffman, USDA Forest Service From walking sticks to herbal medicines Jim Chamberlain, research forest products technologist with Southern Research Station...
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Help for Forest Landowners: Estate Planning
Most of the forested land in the South is owned by families and private individuals. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. Family forest owners may use consulting foresters or State extension foresters for...
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The Latest on Tennessee Forests
FIA survey data show that hardwood types continue to dominate Tennessee forests. Photo by James Newby. Tennessee Forests, 2009, a new resource bulletin published by the U.S. Forest Service Southern...
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Tax Tips for Forest Landowners for 2012
Every fall, Linda Wang, national timber tax specialist, and John Greene, research forester for the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS), prepare tax tips specifically for forest...
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New Books on Forest Landscape Restoration
Two new books link natural and social sciences U.S. Forest Service scientists made significant contributions to two related books recently published by Springer: Forest Landscape Restoration:...
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There’s Nothing Simple about the Urban-Rural Interface
A new book edited by U.S. Forest Service researcher Wayne Zipperer, with co-editors David Laband and Graeme Lockaby, focuses on urban-rural interfaces—those places where city and suburban development...
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The Crossett Experimental Forest
Plot sign for early experiments on the Crossett Experimental Forest. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. Since it was established in 1934, the Crossett Experimental Forest has served as the repository of...
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Just in Time! Updated Forest Landowners’ Guide to the Federal Income Tax
Florida landowner George Owens on land he manages for silvopasture. Photo by Mediassociates, courtesy of Auburn University. The updated Forest Landowners’ Guide to the Federal Income Tax, is now...
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Wood Industry Trends in the South Made Easy
Photo by Eli Seagor, courtesy of Wikimedia. An online tool developed the by U.S. Forest Service quickly reveals the economic impacts of wood-related industries in the states of the South. The South is...
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Community Forest Monitoring in Ghana
Field crew selected for training in carbon monitoring by Ntabene community near Pamu Berekum Forest Reserve in Ghana. Trained by SRS Joe O’Brien (kneeling) and FORIG Francis Dwomoh second from left....
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Forest Operations Unit Hosts SALHI Workshop
Biomass chips: tub grinder output on left and chipper output on right. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. On Tuesday, March 26, the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Forest Operations...
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Futures Report Charts Changes for Southern Forests
High elevation forest in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Photo by Zoe Hoyle. The Southern Forest Futures Project started in 2008 with a series of public meetings across the South to gather...
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Forest Service Co-Sponsors Minority Landowner Magazine Conference
The conference panel discussion on “Agriculture: Past, Present and Future” featured small farming perspectives from seasoned landowners, young farmers, and North Carolina A&T University students....
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