Woodland News

Coming across a shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) while working in the woods isn’t so rare in our region. But, we don’t always encounter one having this level of shaggy-ness. Biodiversity in abundance.

A rare American chestnut (Castanea dentata) amid a sea of mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) during a normal work-day in the remote big-woods region of north central Pennsylvania.

Besides my lightly worn Carhartt coat, one of my favorite things is the chance to encounter less-common tree species having terrific form. Here’s an elm tree which happened to be located within my inventory plot, on a gorgeous sunny winter day.

Our team covers a lot of miles and a lot of acres during the course of a work-day. Therefore, we encounter some interesting sights. Here, one of our foresters stumbled across the skull of a majestic buck before the porcupines and other rodents recycled its vital calcium and other mineral nutrients.

Here, FORECON’s Director of Business Development and Chief Forester, Jason Wenrich engages with a future fellow natural resources professional at Penn State University’s career fair.

Whether a given tree is intended for retention during a scheduled harvest event – or marked for removal – once a tree is cut, the stump is all that remains.

Penn State University recently held its Spring Career Day.

Quietly measuring standing timber in the highlands of western Pennsylvania, Mike White froze as he heard brush cracking just feet from his working position.

Reframing this chart as “CPI in perspective” highlights the volatile markets U.S. natural resource producers and resource-dependent manufacturers successfully navigate while serving global demands for energy and fiber each day.

Submitted for your consideration… a sticky-note from a local resident in the remote, big woods region of Northcentral PA.