The NC State Forest Service Strategic Plan outlines the six major goals the forest service intends to prioritize over the next three years. These six major goals–protect the forests, manage the forests, promote the forests, leadership in forestry,… Read More
Philosophy and Mission of the National Forest Service
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Posted on April 30, 2014 by adgrant
The US National Forest Service’s motto, “Caring for the Land and Serving People,” captures their mission to “achieve quality land management under the sustainable multiple-use management concept to meet the diverse needs of people.” Their complete philosophy is… Read More
Associated Risks of Prescribed Burns
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Posted on April 30, 2014 by adgrant
The NC Prescribed Burning Act outlines the rights of North Carolina’s timber industry to use controlled burning to dispose of slash, like tree stumps and other side-products of logging. Two different strategies are used by the timber industry,… Read More
Wildfires, the Wildland/Urban Interface, and Prescribed Burning
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Posted on April 30, 2014 by adgrant
The practice of using controlled burns to prevent the possibility of more serious fires is used throughout the country, but is especially important in North Carolina because of the state’s high percentage of land lying in the Wildland/Urban… Read More
Fire Adapted Forests of North Carolina
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Posted on April 30, 2014 by adgrant
Fires are a natural element of both forest and grassland ecology, and controlled burning (also called “prescribed burning”) can be a valuable and effective tool for forest managers. Controlled burning is the organized application of fire by a… Read More
Logging for Electricity Generation
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Posted on April 25, 2014 by adgrant
Energy produced by biomass-burning power plants is already powering tens of thousands of homes in South Carolina, and in February the state was acknowledged by the Biomass Power Association for leadership in the growing biomass energy generation industry…. Read More
A Strategic Plan for NC State Forests
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Posted on April 24, 2014 by adgrant
The NC State Forest Service Strategic Plan outlines the six major goals the forest service intends to prioritize over the next three years. These six major goals–protect the forests, manage the forests, promote the forests, leadership in forestry,… Read More
Logging Closes Multiple Trails in Pisgah for 3 Months
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Posted on March 19, 2014 by wehawkins
Recently announced: logging will hinder recreational ventures in Pisgah National Forest until Late May 2014. U.S. Forest Service made the announcement that 7 trails will be shut down for three months. Logging, beginning in late February, would continue until mid to… Read More
Prescribed Burning
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Posted on March 12, 2014 by jealston
Burning season is in, and all four of North Carolina’s national forests are set to undergo or have undergone large burns over the months of February and March. Nantahala and Pisgah have undergone 3 burns in the past… Read More
Brushy Ridge
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Posted on February 16, 2014 by jealston
Often, logging on public land is seen as completely negative, but there can be positives to it as well. The Brushy Ridge timber project is an example of this. The Brushy Ridge Project will involve the logging of… Read More
Ginseng Poachers Beware
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Posted on February 16, 2014 by wehawkins
Traditionally, timber has been the most common resource present in Nantahala National Forest. However, today a North Carolina man was sentenced to jail time for illegally harvesting the fleshy root known as panax ginseng, or American ginseng. In traditional… Read More
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