Latest Logging Headlines
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Forestry Service Says Oklahoma Could Face Fire Crisis
Aug 2 2011 // Heat and drought could lead to a wildfire crisis in Oklahoma for the rest of the summer, a state forestry official said. Forester George Geissler said that both rangeland in western Oklahoma and the wooded hills of eastern...
Agents for Logging Industry Hang On in Downturn
Aug 1 2011 // The logging and forestry industry has suffered dramatically since 2006, with the amount of lumber being harvested dropping by half to 5 billion from 10 billion board feet since then. Underwriters in this class agree that...
Agents for Logging Industry Hang On in Downturn
Jul 18 2011 // The logging and forestry industry has suffered dramatically since 2006, with the amount of lumber being harvested dropping by half to 5 billion from 10 billion since then. Underwriters in this class agree that it has been...
Florida Wildfire Danger High Heading Into Memorial Day Weekend
May 27 2011 // The danger of wildfire is very high throughout Florida due to lack of rain, low humidity and windy conditions. Jim Karels, director of the Florida Division of Forestry at the Department of Agriculture and Consumer...
Louisiana Ag Commissioner: Crop Insurance Plans Guaranteed for Floods
May 18 2011 // Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain D.V.M., said the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has guaranteed that Morganza Spillway farmers whose crops have been damaged by flooding caused by the...
Louisiana Gained 26,300 Non-Farm Jobs in 2010
Jan 27 2011 // Louisiana added 26,300 non-farm jobs in 2010 as it continued to plow through a slow economic recovery, state labor officials said. The state still had 42,200 fewer jobs last month, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, than...
Willis Sets up Agri-Business Unit for Crop and Forestry Sectors
Sep 24 2010 // Hughes-Gibb, the specialist bloodstock, livestock and aquaculture division of Willis Group Holdings, announced that it is expanding its services to clients in agri-business. Broadening its expertise to include Crop and...
Slowing Urban Sprawl, Adding Forested Land Curb Flooding: Study
Aug 26 2010 // Controlling urban growth and increasing forested land are the most effective ways to decrease future water runoff and flooding, according to a Purdue University study. Bryan Pijanowski, an associate professor of forestry...
South Carolina Still Looking for Lessons from Myrtle Beach Wildfire
Oct 5 2009 // The fire chief in one of South Carolina’s busiest tourist spots said he won’t alter his agency’s practices even though his crews failed to extinguish a small blaze that mushroomed into the worst wildfire...
Kentucky Forest Fire Hazard Season Begins
Oct 1 2009 // Kentucky Division of Forestry says the forest fire hazard season begins today, Oct. 1. During the season, it is illegal to burn anything within 150 feet of any woodland or brushland between the daylight hours of 6 a.m. and...
Fatal Work Injuries Dropped 10% in 2008; Down 20% in Construction
Aug 20 2009 // A total of 5,071 fatal work injuries were recorded in the U.S. in 2008, down about 10 percent from a total of 5,657 fatal work injuries reported for 2007, according to preliminary government figures. Based on these...
Cambridge General Offers Logger’s Liability Insurance in California
Apr 3 2009 // With all of the devastating fires that have occurred in California within the past few years, Cambridge General Agency has seen an increasing need for logger’s liability insurance. This type of policy provides...
Virginia’s Fall Fire Season Ends with 304 Acres Burned
Dec 3 2008 // Virginia’s fall fire season has ended, with far fewer scorched acres than the spring edition. Over the 47-day season that ended Sunday, the Virginia Department of Forestry responded to 67 fires that burned 304 acres....
Insurers Ponder Risk of Encouraging Trees to Fight Global Warming
Dec 1 2008 // Paying landowners to let forests grow is promoted by the United Nations as a viable way to fight global warming, but experts first have to puzzle out how to insure trees against going up in smoke. Under U.N. plans, owners...
Oregon Proposes Sharing Wildfire Costs
Oct 22 2008 // The only sure things about wildfires is that they will cost more to put out than they used to and that they remain as unpredictable as ever. Hotter, drier summers, rising labor and equipment costs, buildup of forest fuels...
Hurricanes, Credit Crunch Hit Louisiana, Texas Agriculture
Oct 20 2008 // Like farmers and ranchers across the United States, agriculture producers in Texas and Louisiana have been impacted by rising fuel and fertilizer costs, and they fear the credit squeeze gripping the nation will make it...
Gustav and Ike Blasted Louisiana’s Crops, Forestry and Fisheries
Sep 29 2008 // Louisiana agriculture, forestry and fisheries suffered an estimated $950 million in losses and damages in this month’s hurricanes, according to the Louisiana State University AgCenter. And the figure, officials say,...
West Va. Logger Lawsuits Revived
Aug 21 2008 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has revived a pair of lawsuits seeking damages from timber, mining and land companies for devastating 2001 floods. The court reinstated a 2006 jury verdict that improper logging practices...
Arkansas Forestry Commission: Fire Danger High
Aug 4 2008 // A tanker airplane has been used to dump water on six different fires in southern and central Arkansas, the state Forestry Commission said Aug. 1, warning that the danger of wildfires is now very high. Sixteen Arkansas...
West Virginia Court Revives 2001 Flood Lawsuits Against Loggers
Jul 3 2008 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has revived a pair of lawsuits seeking damages from timber, mining and land companies for devastating 2001 floods. The court reinstated a 2006 jury verdict that improper logging practices...
