Following two weeks of intensely hot and dry conditions across the state, the Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Forestry division has raised the wildfire risk level across all 75 counties, putting 12 counties at “high” risk and all of the remaining…
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With New Scholarship, UAM Aims to Attract Students to Forestry Industry
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffStudents interested in forestry will have a new source of funding for college. The Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Forestry Division and the University of Arkansas at Monticello have unveiled a new scholarship aimed at incoming freshmen pursuing forestry. This scholarship,…
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State Forester Named to Lead National Association
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffArkansas State Forester Joe Fox has been elected to serve as the president of a national forester association. Fox has been named the president for the National Association of State Foresters (NASF). The association, established in 1920, is a nonprofit…
The logs have been counted and the verdict for last year is in – Arkansas’s timber industry is more important than ever. Today I’d like to talk about that good news, which comes from state forester Joe Fox, and what…