Archive for February 2026

The Missouri Chapter of the Walnut Council will be having their spring field day on March 20 and 21 in New Florence and Callaway County. It will feature a tour of the Independent Stave Mill where participants will see a demonstration of log scaling and walk through the flow of the production in a stave…

[Asheville, NC] — A major new paper published this week in Science marks a turning point in how endangered species can be restored. The research demonstrates that approaches informed by detailed genomic information, long used in agriculture and animal breeding, can be applied at scale to conservation and restoration of wild species, accelerating progress toward…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 17, 2026) — A coalition of conservation, hunter, angler, and forest management organizations and companies applauded inclusion of the Forest Conservation Easement Program (FCEP), with mandatory funding, in the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. As the nation’s first comprehensive private and tribal…