Written by Dave Lefever on 7 April 2025 for Lancaster Farming News Troy Firth, front, leads a group on a forest walk. Photo credit: Foundation for Sustainable Forests The better part of a lifetime spent working in the woods has given Troy Firth a lot of insight into forest management. If you’re a woodlot or … Read more
Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ mid-Atlantic coast. They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever-widening swath of these trees have … Read more
Press release by Sand County Foundation on 6 Jan 2025 Troy Firth of Spartansburg has been selected as the 2024 Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award® recipient. The $10,000 award honors farmers and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat on working land. Firth, who owns … Read more