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A free educational forestry seminar will be presented Friday, April 26 at the Texas A&M Forest Service, located at 1015 S.E. Loop 456, in Jacksonville.

A free educational forestry seminar will be presented Friday, April 26 at the Texas A&M Forest Service, located at 1015 S.E. Loop 456, in Jacksonville.

An unidentified fungal killer swept through a South African pine plantation in the 1980s. Rodger ShagamIn the 1970s and 1980s, pine trees growing in various forestry plantations in South Africa’s Western Cape province began to die in patches. These trees succumbed to a mysterious root disease and the patches expanded gradually. Spontaneous regrowth of seedlings in the patches died dramatically. As in many other true crime dramas, the finger was initially pointed at the most likely suspect: the r

New Owners Promise Continued Public Access To NW Montana Timberlands The owner of a large block of private timberland in northwest Montana says it’s likely done its last major land sale after a deal announced this week. Southern Pine Plantations sold 125,000 acres of timberland west of Kalispell. The land was sold to a Texas family, owners of Goosehead Insurance. Mark Jones is the company’s chairman and CEO. He says the family will work to maintain public access to the land through Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks' block management program. "We want to be a good neighbor, but we want to m...