In a tumultuous timber market, baling pine straw can bail out landowners. Both slash pines and longleaf pines produce marketable straw, the former more common and the latter more desirable.

As the southeastern United States continues to rely on its robust timber industry as a significant economic driver, new research from the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural ...

Jody Roberts, a 71-year-old tree farmer, sat in his truck last week and watched his land burn. Over 100 acres of stumps and splintered slash pine smoldered, disintegrated to ash and floated into ...

Like timber, pine straw boomed during the pandemic. “It rose from about 2020 to 2022. We had record numbers,” Jackson said, “but then in ‘23, it just died.” ...

Pine trees are one of the most common coniferous species in ... Jack pine is often used for timber and sometimes landscaping. 7. of 13. Longleaf Pine . John Elk III ... The slash pine (Pinus ...

In southern China, the genetically improved slash pine (Pinus elliottii) plays a crucial role in timber and resin production, with new shoot density being a key growth trait. Current manual ...

A pair of towering pines left as specimen plants on the home site topped an island mound in old Nick's front lawn. Junipers crowded between them and colorful cultivated wild flowers poked through ...

The Alabama Forestry Commission is working with Wiregrass timber owners to try to save the timber industry from the outbreak of Ips Bark Beetles. “Ips Bark Beetles are hitting our pines very ...

Now, the New England Forestry Foundation , its stewards, are charging a timber harvest that will pull 700 cords — roughly eight to 10 red oak and white pine trees per acre.