Forestry

A group of International Falls businessmen will open a brand-new $230 million wood-pellet plant in Arkansas this week that could offer a blueprint for economic development in northern Minnesota. Highland Pellets will begin churning out 600,000 metric tons of pellets per year for...

According to a recent delinquent property tax list, land owners in Lake County owe $375,000, with nearly half of that coming from Marlow Timberland at $162,669. Roy Marlow is disputing the tax assessments on his nearly 40,000 acres in Lake County purchased from the Potlatch Corp....

Climate Change: University of Minnesota researcher Artur Stefanski is managing the U.S. Depart-ment of Energy-funded project called B4Warmed that has planted 12,000 trees on 96 plots at the center. The goal is to see how increasing temperatures of 2 and 4 degrees Celsius will affect...

If you've ever wanted to see inside the Cloquet Forestry Center, now's your chance. The University of Minnesota facility will be bustling with activities, demonstrations, presentations and more Monday through Saturday. Nearly all centennial celebration events are free and open to...