AFA NEWSROOM V17N38, September 22, 2022 | Join AFA In Thanking Hoover's First Responders -September 23, 2022 - 11:00 -1:00 | Pulpwood, the smaller trees typically chipped for making wood pulp or oriented strand board (OSB) or wood pellets, provides balance and diversification to the forest products industry. Robust, sustainable timber markets and wood baskets feature a broad set of wood consumers. A local wood basin with no demand for pulpwood or chips is like a shoe box with one shoe: incomplete. | 2022 AFA Annual Meeting -You Wanted More. Photos From The Largest Attended AFA Annual Meeting On Record! | |
Thank you again to everyone who joined us in Orange Beach and helped make this year's AFA Annual Meeting a huge success.
Mark your calendars for September 10 -12, 2023 - You don't want to miss it!
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David Fitzgerald Steele, Sr.
August 10, 1957 - September 18, 2022 Obituary
| David Fitzgerald Steele, Sr., age 65,
passed away on September 18, 2022. He was born in Selma, AL on August
10, 1957 and spent his entire life surrounded by his family and friends
in Beatrice, Alabama. He is survived by his wife of thirty-nine years,
Allison Herring Steele, and his mother, Patricia Hines Steele. David was
the proud father of two sons, David Jr. (Emily) and Thomas (Meredith)
as well as loving in-laws, Don and Rochelle Herring. | |
AFA Newsroom Special Feature:
AFA Political Endorsements
| Interested in who AFA has endorsed so far? Visit our AFA ForestPac Endorsement Pages, linked below, as more endorsements will be added soon | Absentee Voting Period For November 8th General Election Has Started | |
The absentee voting period for the November 8th General Election began yesterday, September 14. Important absentee voting deadlines are listed below:
November 1, 2022: The last day that absentee ballot applications can be returned by mail.
November 3, 2022: The last day that absentee ballot applications can be returned by hand.
November 7, 2022: The last day to return absentee ballots by hand to the Absentee Election Manager.
November 8, 2022: Absentee ballots must be returned by mail to the absentee election manager no later than noon.
| USFWS Proposed To List Tricolored Bats As Endangered | |
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing tricolored bats as federally endangered due to the widespread impact of the deadly white-nose syndrome.
Tricolored bats (Perimyotis subflavus) are found in 39 states east of the Rocky Mountains and Washington, D.C. as well as in parts of eastern Canada, Mexico and Central America. They are one of a handful of species that are most affected by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that can be deadly for hibernating bats. One recent study found that 59% of the range of tricolored bats lies within the white-nose syndrome-affected area.
| Log-A-Load Events- Mark Your Calendar | |
Auburn University Forestry Club Sporting Clay Shoot
October 7, 2022
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26th Delta District Log-A-Load Golf Tournament
October 13, 2022
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Water Quality Workshop For Loggers & Foresters - 5 PLM/ 5 CFE
September 29, 2022
| Want to know how cold it was in 1490? Ask a tree. | |
Sometimes getting to where you want to go is a matter of finding the right guide.
Four teams of researchers, led by Harvard Forest ecologists, searched for a patch of ancient trees deep in the woods of western Pennsylvania this summer as part of a project to study how climate changes affected trees over the centuries. One of the scientists had come across them 40 years earlier, but they appeared to have vanished. Just as the group was about to give up and move on they came across someone who gave them a valuable clue.
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Alabama ANRC Landowner Conference -
October 27 - 28, 2022
| How Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine Produced A Windfall For Enviva’s Wood Pellets Business | On a crisp North Carolina morning, an eastern pine forest is being clear
cut in a precisely choreographed hydraulic ballet. Pincers grab
500-pound, 30-foot tree trunks, run them through trimmers and
auto-cutters and then stack the nearly uniform logs onto flatbed trucks
which take them to mills to be cut into construction boards. Grappling
claws scoop up the remains of the harvest—branches, limbs and scraps—and
drop them into open-topped dump trucks headed for one of 10 plants run
by Enviva, to be chopped, dried, pulverized and pressed into two-inch
wood pellets. | In the weeks leading up to and during our Alabama Woods to Goods Week 2022 celebration, we will be sharing stories about why forestry is "more than an industry" to people throughout the state of Alabama. Let us know what forestry means to you by clicking the link below. | Alabama Loggers Council Annual Meeting October 29, 2022 | |
Join Loggers from all over the state. Special keynote speaker, Wendy Ferrand and a celebration of ALC's 30 year anniversary. This years program focuses on Transportation:
Main Topics
- Loggers - Don't Leave Culture to Chance
- Commercial Auto Insurance -What About the Future
- Alabama Motor Carrier Safety Unit Update
- Understanding Log Truck Gross Weights
| Building Sustainable Futures With Mass Timber Construction | Sustainable building practices are becoming a priority for owners and contractors alike. One of the most exciting green building trends in recent years is the use of mass timber, specifically cross-laminated timber (CLT). CLT is a prefabricated, solid engineered wood panel. One panel consists of several layers– typically three, five or seven– of dimensional lumber stacked and glued together at a 90-degree angle. These panels are lightweight yet strong and stable, making CLT a viable alternative to traditional building materials like concrete, masonry, or steel in some instances. These qualities have led to this material’s implementation on large-scale projects across the country. While these building benefits are great for project teams, one being the ease of installation, mass timber offers sustainable solutions like lowering greenhouse gas emissions and improving indoor air quality. | Mark your calendars for our ForestPAC Sporting Clays Fundraiser at Selwood Farm on Decembers 6! Help us keep and get quality candidates elected! Register now! | Online CE Available For PLM & CFE |
Foresters and loggers, a reminder that AFA offers online continuing education. Now is a great time to go ahead and handle continuing education hours.
Click below for a list of classes.
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