Alabama A&M University’s student-led wildfire fighting squad gives future foresters hands-on experience in wildfire management, supporting firefighting efforts in Alabama’s forests and educating the community about fire prevention.
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In our Rayonier Graduates series, we’re talking to recent Forestry College graduates who now work for Rayonier. In this story, Forester DeShaun Mincey shares his career journey, from serving in the U.S. Navy, to studying forestry and fighting wildfires at Alabama A&M University, to Rayonier.
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In our Rayonier Graduates series, we’re talking to recent Forestry College graduates who now work for Rayonier. In this story, Brody Capps shares how he chose forestry and why college was like “forestry boot camp” at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Read More “How a Forestry Grad Found His Calling”We gather our pinecones by the tractor trailer load, but only the best will do. We share how we breed and collect the best cones and extract their seeds for future forests.
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In our Rayonier Graduates series, we’re talking to recent Forestry College graduates who now work for Rayonier. In this story, Oregon Forester Vanessa McKinney shares how she became a forester, her love for forest photography, and her hope of inspiring more women to work in the industry.
Read More “Meet Vanessa: Forester, Photographer and Dog Lover for Life”Working forests play a critical role in the quantity and quality of America’s water supply. We look at how the forestry industry not only protects water, but takes a proactive role in improving water supply.
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Dangerous tasks that took loggers hours or even days on steep mountainsides can now be safely done in minutes, thanks to powerful new drones.
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What is tower logging and how does it work? In this article, we help you understand how this steep slope logging technique works.
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Winch assist machines are improving logger safety on some of the toughest sites to log. They serve as an anchor for heavy equipment, making it possible to log many steep slopes from the safety of a cab rather than having to cut trees on foot. In this story, we show how a winch-assist system works.
Read More “Winch-Assisted Logging Boosts Safety on Steep Terrain”Rayonier foresters spend more time planting trees than they do harvesting them. We look at the extensive planning and location-specific methods we use for planting trees in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, the U.S. South and New Zealand.
Read More “Rayonier Foresters Plant Millions of Trees Every Year”Olivia Johnson says more women and minorities are enrolling in forestry programs, bringing a new level of workforce diversity that will enrich the industry in the years to come.
Read More “UF Student: Workforce Diversity will Benefit Next Generation of Foresters”Rayonier relies on a talented team of forest engineers to plan harvests and maintain our private roads and bridges across hundreds of thousands of acres in the Pacific Northwest, always with protecting the environment in mind.
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