Climbing into the Cumberland Mountains, Virginia’s Heritage MusicTrail – “The Crooked Road” – comes to Clintwood and stops at a mighty mansion bearing the name of Ralph Stanley. A smoky-voiced singer, the 80-year-old Stanley is one of Southwest Virginia’s greatest…
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The Pines: The Good and the Bad
Jim Minick is a professor of English at Radford University and the author of Finding a Clear Path_, a collection of essays was published by West Virginia University press. Pine trees receive a large share of bad press in environmental…
Strange Bedfellows
The strangest bedfellows in West Virginia, the AFL-CIO / United Mine Workers union and the WV Chamber of Commerce, joined hands recently to write an article entitled “Economic cornerstone of W.Va. under attack.” They are strange bedfellows because the Chamber…
Editorial
Jobs? What mining jobs? That strange noise coming from Appalachia’s coal fields is the sound that the truth makes when it is being mercilessly twisted. In rallies and op-ed essays this spring, the “friends of coal” have focused on a…
Blair Mountain: New Archeological Data Heats up Mine Wars
images/voice_uploads/june_o7/circle_blair.gif Like his grandfather, Kenny King figured he just had to do something. Hallowed ground was about to be clearcut, bulldozed, and blasted down to rubble. The site of the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain battle between miners and coal…
Rural Technology Initiative
The Rural Technology Initiative (RTI) website contains several tools to help landowners and managers achieve such tasks as building roads, placing culverts, and conducting forest inventories. News notes are courtesy of Southern Forests Network News Notes www.southernsustainableforests.org
Democrats Pledge to Green the U.S. House of Representatives
[Washington, DC] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today said Democrats would start to operate the House buildings “in a carbon neutral manner” at the earliest possible date with a deadline of the end of this Congress in late 2008 or early…
A growing strength
Longleaf pines making comeback thanks to conservation program [ Georgia ] The process of clearing land for farming more than a century ago destroyed most of Georgia’s historic longleaf forests, which experts say once covered more than 65 million acres…
Writing a Business Plan Adapted for the Wild Harvest Sector
A companion publication to A Planning Guide for Small and Medium Size Wood Products Companies. News notes are courtesy of Southern Forests Network News Notes www.southernsustainableforests.org
A Planning Guide for Small and Medium Size Wood Products Companies
At the beginning of the 21st century, North American wood products companies are facing competitive pressure from numerous sources. Traditional products are being manufactured in new regions and substitute products are being developed by competing industries. The bottom line is…
