The South Alabamian News Podcast
The South Alabamian Newspaper provides local news for Jackson, Alabama.
The South Alabamian News Podcast
Southern foresters send SOS
Alabama Speaker of the House Nathaniel Ledbetter on Oct. 13 joined four other Southeastern House speakers in a coordinated push for federal action to stabilize the U.S. forestry market. In a letter shared with congressional delegations from five states, Ledbetter and the house speakers of Georgia, Arkansas, Florida and South Carolina urged “immediate and urgent relief ” to address challenges facing mills, loggers, landowners and exporters across the South face. In the letter, the state lawmakers ask federal leaders to press the European Union to allow mission-critical procedures so that Southern yellow pine chips can reach EU buyers; require a...