Michael Bonin retired as principal from Iberia Middle School in 2013, and at that time he wanted to find something to do to fill his time and maybe supplement his income. What he fell into was something far beyond his wildest imagination.
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Louisiana State University has accepting applications for an assistant/associate professor for forestry economics, according to the university.
The position was previously held by Dr. Shaun Tanger, who accepted a new job in Mississippi last year.
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The City of Alexandria has been recognized as a 2020 Tree City USA community by the Arbor Day Foundation.
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Tami Kessler, who spent her 45-year career with the Southern Forest Products Association, recently announced she will retires as executive director of the SFPA on April 2. Prior to her departure, Eric Gee, who served the organization as its communications officer, replaced Kessler as the association's leader.
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Seven Ferriday Garden Club members joined together at Louisiana Park on Louisiana Avenue in downtown Ferriday to plant trees in celebration of Arbor Day. National Arbor Day is celebrated in April but Louisiana Celebrates it in January because this is a good time to plant trees in our area of the country.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making available $12 million for use in making payments to forest landowners with land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in exchange for their implementing healthy forest management practices. Existing CRP participants can now sign up for the Forest Management Incentive (FMI), which provides financial incentives to landowners with land in CRP to encourage proper tree thinning and other practices.
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This report contains the results from the 2020 December Agricultural Survey.
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Anyone who has ever visited the LSU AgCenter Dean Lee Research and Extension Center or the neighboring campus of LSU Alexandria has probably noticed — and maybe even stopped to snap a photo of — a pair of huge live oaks that stand in a field behind an office building.
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The Louisiana Forestry Association is celebrating Arbor Day by giving away 1,000 seedlings on Friday, Jan. 15. Trees given away this year will be the Shumard Oak, Yellow Poplar, Persimmon and Cypress.
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