The Washington Post had an article this week about the “Holy Oak” located in Basking Ridge, NJ, which is estimated to be over 600 years old. It is the oldest white oak in the US and possibly the world. The tree is slowly dying, and the residents are mourning the…
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Need information about bugs, fungi, weeds and other staff that might be getting between you and a healthy forest? Register now for a Forest Health & Invasive Species Workshop to take place June 30, 2016 in Talbot County, Georgia. Attached is a flyer with information. To register please e-mail solomob@fvsu.edu.
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According to the Weather Channel, ongoing drought conditions have contributed to the 29 million tree deaths in California, a number that is still on the rise. In addition to millions of oak trees in the state being killed off by sudden oak death disease, bark beetles have also played a…
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A new website which collects information on wildfire in the Southeast is now available at http://southernwildfire.net/. This website collects information on wildfire research geared towards Southeastern wildfires as well as shares success stories on dealing with forest fires. It includes information on SouthWRAP, the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment online mapping tool, an…
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Because of the dry conditions in the Carolinas in April, forest fires caused a lot of problems. Here is a write-up of efforts by the North Carolina Forest Service and the State Climate Office of North Carolina to use past weather to help fight the fires this past month.
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While we’ve been relatively cool in the Southeast for the past few days as an upper level passed over us (and some snow was even seen in the mountains of Georgia and North Carolina), hot weather is dominating the central part of the United States and up into Canada. The…
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Columbia Metropolitan magazine posted a story recently on the importance of the timber industry to South Carolina. Did you know that timber is SC’s top crop? Forest product industries now have an estimated economic impact of more than $18 billion in the state, according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission,…
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