LaSalle Lumber open, adds second shift
URANIA — What’s better than promising 115 new jobs in rural Louisiana? Delivering more. That’s what is happening at the LaSalle Lumber...
New forest product making soils better
Trees that decompose return nutrients to soils and benefit future plants, but that takes decades. What if something can be made in, say,...
Week salutes renewable industry
The Louisiana Forestry Association, with the LSU AgCenter and Rapides Parish school system recently completed the fall Forest Awareness...
SFPA sawmill safety awards given
Seven Southern Pine sawmills that are members of the Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA), including three from Louisiana, were...
From La. to Ariz.: A sawmill town moves
In the early 20th century, when lumbering was at its prime in the South, lumbermen bought old-growth longleaf pine forests for as little...
Log trucking big challenge for industry
Louisiana is a great wood basket. Many forest landowners have lots of trees at different stages of growth, loggers can harvest them...
