USDA Offers Energy Cost Offset For Completion of EQIP Practices
January 19, 2006 — Agriculture Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner today announced $40 million for one-time payment adjustments that will allow eligible Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) participants to complete conservation practices that have been delayed because of recent increases in energy prices. Read more…
USDA Announces Sign-Up for 2006 Conservation Security Program
January 31, 2006 — Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced the 2006 Conservation Security Program (CSP) sign-up will be held Feb. 13, 2006 to March 31, 2006 in 60 watersheds nationwide. Read more…
Welcome to the first-ever issue of NCWoodlands Review
February 9, 2006 — NCWoodlands is an independent grassroots not-for-profit organization that provides its members with a voice on national, state, and local issues affecting North Carolina’s private woodlands. Our mission is to advance the interests of North Carolina’s woodland owners and to encourage responsible stewardship of their property. <a href="ncwoodlands_membership.pdf">Download the membership application here</a> [PDF, 87KB] Read more…
Read NCWoodlands Review, Spring 2006 Edition Here
May 5, 2006 — Inside this newsletter read about our State Forester Retiring, the NC Fire Council and The Cradle of Forestry. Also, a must read is a special article entitled “Per Unit” Timber Sale Contracts by Jason Page, Attorney at Law and NC Registered Forester. Read more…
NC State University Selects New Dean of Natural Resources
May 19, 2006 — Dr. Robert D. Brown has been chosen to serve as the new dean of the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University. Brown currently serves as the director of Read more…
Tabby cat terror for black bear
June 10, 2006 — The unwelcome intruder was forced up a tree - twice - by the family pet, a tabby cat called Jack. The terrified bear was only able to make its escape when… Read more…
Rare American Chestnut Trees Found in Wild
June 16, 2006 — Experts have confirmed that a cluster of trees found by a scientist hiking near Pine Mountain, Ga., are in fact American chestnut trees. But researchers say they have no idea how the trees escaped a blight in the early 1900s, which scientists thought had wiped out the entire U.S. population of the trees… Listen to the complete NPR story here. Read more…
New tree harvesting law passed for the city of Greenville
July 12, 2006 — HOUSE BILL 2570; AN ACT authorizing the City of greenville to limit the clear-cutting of trees in buffer zones prior to development. Read more…
New tree harvesting law passed for the cities Clayton and Reidsville
July 13, 2006 — SENATE BILL 1928; AN ACT authorizing the town of clayton and the city of reidsville to limit the clear-cutting of trees in buffer zones prior to development. Read more…
USDA Accepts First Three State Petitions for Conserving Roadless Areas in National Forests
July 21, 2006 — Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today approved petitions from North Carolina Governor Mike Easley, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to develop state-specific rules for managing roadless areas in the three states. Read more…
The Nature Conservancy Calls on Congress to Increase Funding and Strengthen Policy to Combat Dangerous Pests
August 11, 2006 — Congress must take immediate action to protect the economic and ecological values of America's forests against the growing threat of invasive insects and diseases, Frank Lowenstein, director of The Nature Conservancy's Forest Health Programs, told the House Resources Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health today. Read more…
Fish and Wildlife Service Updates List of Candidates for Endangered Species Act Listing
September 12, 2006 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today released its updated Candidate Notice of Review, a yearly appraisal of the candidate species list detailing those plants or animals that may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. Read more…
USDA Announces New Conservation Program to Restore Longleaf Pine Forests
October 18, 2006 — Teresa Lasseter, administrator of USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA), today announced a new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Longleaf Pine Initiative to increase longleaf pine forests by 250,000 acres throughout nine southern states. Read more…
Fact Sheet: Conservation Reserve Program, Longleaf Pine Initiative
October 18, 2006 — In October 2006, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) unveiled a Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Longleaf Pine Initiative designed to reforest up to 250,000 acres of longleaf pine forests in nine southern states. Producers in the following states may be eligible to participate in the CRP Longleaf Pine Initiative: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina Read more…
Oregon Tree Farmers Bob & Margaret Kintigh Named 2006 National Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year
October 23, 2006 — The American Tree Farm System (ATFS), a program of the American Forest Foundation, named Bob and Margaret Kintigh of Springfield, Oregon as the 2006 National Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year. Read more…
The Nature Conservancy and Xerox Launch Partnership to Enhance, Advance Forest Conservation
October 26, 2006 — Aiming to ensure that today's forest lands are there for tomorrow's generations' Xerox Corporation has invested $1 million in an innovative partnership with The Nature Conservancy to strengthen and advance practices used to conserve the world's forests. Read more…
State Forestry Leader To Retire To Take Job as National Fire Director
November 20, 2006 — Dan Smith, the acting director with the N.C. Division of Forest Resources, is leaving state government to take a position as the National Fire Director with the National Association of State Foresters. Read more…