by MBJ Staff Published: November 7,2012
Tags: environment, forerster, forest, forestry, greenhouse gas, pollution, rail line, railroad, railway, report, timber, train, transportation, travel, tree, wood
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corp. has issued its fifth-annual corporate sustainability report, documenting progress on the railroad’s efforts to reduce its business impacts on the environment. The 2012 report can be found on Norfolk Southern’s environmental website, www.nssustainability.com. It highlights advances made in the five years since the company launched a sustainability program with [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 7,2012
Tags: agriculture, award, beetle, education, forest, forester, forestry, higher education, insect, pest, pine tree, prevention, public university, research, science, scientist, timber, timberland, tree, wood
STARKVILLE — The Mississippi State University Extension Service recently gained national recognition for a program designed to protect the state’s timberlands from an insect pest. The Mississippi Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program received the 2012 Family Forests Education Award at the Society of American Foresters’ national convention, held in Spokane, Wash. The honor is given [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 4,2012
Tags: commodity, crop, damage, disaster, farm, farmer, farming, flood, flooding, forest, forester, hurricane, livestock, loss, lumber, natural disaster, rain, ranch, rancher, row crop, severe weather, storm, timber, tree, tropical storm, tropical weather, Weather, wind, wood
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Even as the remnants of Hurricane Isaac were leaving Mississippi last Friday, Mississippi State University Extension agents were assessing its impact on crops that were so close to harvest. Lodging, or laying down, can be a significant harvest challenge in wind-blown fields, especially corn. Extension corn specialist Erick Larson is cautiously optimistic [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 27,2012
Tags: agriculture, education, educator, forest, forester, forestland, forestry, higher education, information, inventory, lumber, research, researcher, science, scientists, technology, timber, tree, university, wood, woodland
STARKVILLE — Researchers at Mississippi State University’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center have created the Mississippi Forest Monitoring and Information System, a forest inventory and information system that combines satellite remote sensing data and ground surveys. It is the first time forest-related satellite data and ground measurements have been combined on such a large scale [...] [...]
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Forestry Commission says the first Southern pine beetle outbreak to hit southwest Mississippi in nearly 20 years has apparently doubled in size and shows no signs of slowing. The Enterprise-Journal reports officials are urging landowners in Franklin, Amite, Wilkinson, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln and Copiah counties to check for the beetles, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 6,2012
Tags: breach of contract, contract, county, county government, courts, energy, forest, forestland, fuel, judge, judicial, lawsuit, lumber, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, sue, suing, timber, tree, wood, wood pellet
MAGNOLIA — An Aug. 13 trial date has been set in U.S. District Court in Jackson in a breach-of-contract lawsuit by Pike County against a wood pellet company that never built a promised mill. The Enterprise-Journal reports Indeck Energy Services of Buffalo Grove, Ill., bought land from Pike County in 2008 with plans to build [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 6,2012
Tags: brownfield, cleanup, ecosystem, environment, federal agency, federal government, lumber, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, plant, pollution, public safety, timber, wildlife, wood, workplace safety
PURVIS — The cleanup at the former Davis Timber Co. site should be completed within weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency says. Just last week, workers were putting the final loads of clay over a 3.1-acre where contaminated dirt and water-bottom muck were moved, said Scott Martin, remedial project manager with the agency’s Region Four office [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: July 19,2012
Tags: acquisition, forest, forester, forestry, invesdtor, invest, investing, investment, land, lumber, purchase, real estate, timber, tree, wood
JACKSON — The Hancock Timber Resource Group of Boston and Jackson-based Molpus Woodlands Group have purchased the 1.88 million acre timberland portfolio of Forest Capital Partners, the companies report. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Hancock Timber is acquiring 376,000 acres in Louisiana, 573,000 acres in Oregon, 138,000 acres in Idaho and 264,000 acres [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: July 12,2012
Tags: beetle, forestry, forrest, harvest, home, homebuilding, house, housing, lumber, market, pest, price, tax, tax-free sales, thinning, timber, tree, wood, woodland
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Landowners debating the timing for their next timber sale should send trees to the market sooner, rather than later. James Henderson, assistant forestry professor with Mississippi State University’s Extension Service, said increases in housing starts are contributing to gradual timber price improvements, but better reasons to harvest could be related to insects [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 10,2012
Tags: county government, ferry, hunting camp, island, river, staffing, timber, timberland, transportation, understaffed
VICKSBURG — Kings Point Ferry has suffered four years of being understaffed, but the ferry barge and push boat continues to run 365 days a year. Since 2008, the ferry has run 12 hours a day as the county has searched for another certified master pilot to drive the vessel. “We can just do what [...] [...]
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