by Web Editor | Oct 31, 2018 | News, News/PR
New York State hosted the first-ever Forestry and Wood Products Summit Thursday in Binghamton. At the Broome County Regional Farmers Market, state and local officials met with key players in the forestry industry to discuss ways to boost the state’s forest and...
by Web Editor | Feb 24, 2017 | News, News/PR
Americans are spending their lives farther from forests than they did at the end of the 20th century and, contrary to popular wisdom, the change is more pronounced in rural areas than in urban settings. A study published this week in the journal PLOS ONE says that...
by Web Editor | Nov 11, 2016 | News, News/PR
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos recently announced that five members of its wildfire firefighting crew are being deployed to the South to assist in the containment of wildfires burning in Virginia and Alabama....
by Web Editor | May 20, 2016 | News, News/PR
When Gary Lovett was studying the effect of acid rain in New York’s Catskill Mountains 20 years ago, he ended the experiment early because so many trees in the test plots were dying — not from acid rain, but from attacks by forest pests. “I consider air...
by Web Editor | Dec 1, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Thanksgiving turkey’s not even been purchased before a host of evergreen trees start heading down from the hills, to be trucked across the Southeast and up the East Coast. Rodney Buchanan’s crew has been cutting and baling fragrant Fraser firs since...