Southern Forest Industries Incorporated

How to Get Lumber for Free or Cheap

Lumber may be in high demand right now, but you can still score what you need in unexpected places.

Complete Guide to Buying Lumber

Buying lumber can be a confusing prospect. There are different types and grades and materials to know. This guide offers everything you need to know.

Guide to the Different Lumber Grades

Use this guide to help identify the different types of lumber and learn which ones will be useful for which projects.

How to Choose Lumber

Choosing lumber can be tricky! Even after you've decided on a type of wood and calculated the dimensions you'll need, every board is different and it takes time and...

How Precision Forestry Transforms the Forestry Industry

The new benefits and applications for this new focus on forestry to replace the traditional system that has gone without changes for more than 3 centuries.

How might forestry be impacted by Waterways of the U.S. rule?

WOTUS impact on timber industry explored.<br>Current forest conditions, markets, invasive beetle updates.

Woodland looks to grow its urban forestry program

A program that could dramatically revise Woodland’s “urban forest” needs some pruning before it can be implemented. That’s the view of the City Council, which recently heard…

What Influenced You to Choose a Forestry Career?

What Influenced You to Choose a Forestry Career? When did you think that you would like to be a forester or a logger or another type of forest industr...

How Sustainable Lumber and Forestry is Making a Difference

Ever wonder the connect between sustainable lumber and forestry? Today, Lumber Companies are making their own improvements to help conserve. Read more!

Burning ambition: Why the forestry industry needs the RET

The forestry lobby has fought hard to have native forest biomass included an eligible fuel source under the RET. But why? And at what cost?

How Foresters, Loggers, Forest Owners and the Forest Industry Became Champions for Clean Water

We provide leadership in sustaining the economic, environmental and social benefits of the South's forests, and work to identify and address existing and emerging issues and challenges that are important to southern forests and citizens.

Southern Sayings: A Brief Guide to Southernisms

A guide to Southern sayings: “That dog won’t hunt.” “Run with the big dogs or stay on the porch.” “Happy as a tick on a fat dog.”

How the Forestry Service Went Agile

The Forestry Service discovered it had to embrace agile development to give state-of-the-art digital tools to the visitors who explore the forests of America.

Young Southern Loggers Buck The Trend, Grow New Business

It’s no secret that logging crews are aging, and that experienced loggers are struggling to attract young people to the profession.

Why "As Southern as Sweet Tea" Isn't Very Southern at All

The history of sweet tea is a prime example of "Southernization"—namely, the way in which certain foods and other cultural trappings come to be associated with the region. The only problem? Sweet tea actually hails from the North.

How Southern Are Your Eating Habits?

Forestry geneticists develop tree biomass crop to grow on marginal lands

Two Virginia Tech researchers have received a $1.4 million grant to investigate the genetic regulatory networks that will allow an important bioenergy crop to be bred so it will grow in less than ideal soils and climate.

USDA seeks input on 'climate-smart' ag and forestry practices

The Agriculture Department is looking for feedback on how to develop a climate-smart agriculture and forestry strategy as part of its implementation of an executive order on reducing carbon emissions.

What Makes Us Southern: Boiled Peanuts

Eating a sloppy, salty cup full of boiled peanuts isn’t nearly as difficult as finding the down-home delicacy.