Louisiana State Treasurer John Schroder is traveling central and northern Louisiana, promoting the Louisiana Loggers Relief Grant Program and encouraging loggers who are business owners to apply for a one-time grant of up to $25,000. Thanks to legislation passed in the last legislative session, the State Treasurer’s office is overseeing the administration of this grant, which is part of the Main Street Recovery Program, designed to assist loggers. “Between bad weather, hurric

Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder was on tour in Central and North Louisiana on Tuesday to promote the Louisiana Logger Relief Program. The program is designed to help loggers who suffered losses due to the Wuhan virus COVID-19 pandemic. Logging businesses that sustained a loss of 10 percent or greater in 2020, compared to 2019, could be eligible to get up to $25,000. Schroder visited the Doggett Machinery shop in Alexandria on his first stop. Alvin Robinson Logging was to re

Only two kinds of forestland exist in Louisiana ... one that has feral hogs and the other that will soon have feral hogs. The search for a way to control the state’s feral swine population has been an ongoing effort for a long time, but Dr. Glen T. Gentry, with the help of the LSU chemistry department, is making another tool that could help. A bait using sodium nitrite gives the wild pigs a dose high enough to be lethal, but breaks down fast enough that it won’t affect the en

In 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a Congressional joint proclamation designating the third Sunday in October as the beginning of National Forest Products Week. Much of rural America, especially in Louisiana, understands the importance forests products are to local economies. It remains the largest agricultural crop in the state, providing more than $13 billion to the state's economy. It employs 10s of thousands people in the state and provides essential products

Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder will tour the central and northern part of the state to promote the Logger Relief Grant Program and encourage loggers who own their business to apply for the one-time grant of up to $25,000. Schroder will make four stops beginning in Alexandria on Tuesday, Oct. 26 to pitch the program passed by the Legislature in the spring to help the logging businesses who can show a loss of at least 10 percent due to the Wuhan COVID-19 pandemic. The busine

In 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a Congressional joint proclamation designating the third Sunday in October as the beginning of National Forest Products Week. Much of rural America, especially in Louisiana, understands the importance forests products are to local economies. It remains the largest agricultural crop in the state, providing more than $13 billion to the state's economy. It employs 10s of thousands people in the state and provides essential products