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What’s in a Name? Recently, while rummaging through a whole pile of aging stuff looking for something else, I came across a leaf collection I prepared for a 9th grade vocational agriculture class some 35 years back.  There are 50 entries in the book, each with the trade or common name of each species, along with […]

Students from Haywood Community College (HCC) toured forestland belonging to former Congressman Charles Taylor on March 21.  HCC opened in 1965 in Clyde, NC.  HCC owns and manages forestland as a teaching forest for its natural resources program.  The tour highlighted FSC forest management on a small, privately held hardwood forest. Columbia Forest Products wrote […]

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_kYSjnCsqY?feature=player_embedded] Columbia Forest Products is helping to spread the word about the International Day of Forests on March 21st! The Day is intended to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of all types of forests…for rinstance, did you know that forests cover over a third of the land on the Earth? Who knew?! […]

Columbia has a NEW software business partner, 3LOG, for log procurement/settlement with installations of LIMS and WeighWiz at Old Fort, NC, Gordonsville, VA and Craigsville, VA! You may not have any idea who 3LOG is or what they do (I didn’t have any idea), they are a company dedicated to  business solutions for timber management and […]