Hundreds of landowners in Florida are left with too much timber with nowhere to go, thanks to 'perfect storm' of a hurricane and mill closure.

LIVE OAK (CBSMiami/AP) — The timber business is booming in northeast Florida with demand booming for the natural resource worldwide. The towering grove of century-old longleaf pines surrounding ...

In this Tuesday, July 28, 2015 photo, timber land owner Roger Ward, left, measures an area of seedling slash pines with Brain Cobble of the Florida Forest Service in Live Oak, Fla. Ward has ...

The Florida Forest Service estimates that Michael left roughly 72 million tons of rotting timber on the ground. About 13 percent has been cleared in what is expected to be a five to seven-year effort.

The timber rattlesnake, one of the six venomous species, is found in a limited range in north Florida. There are more than 40 species of snakes that are native to Florida, but only six of them are ...

Timber Pines is a Census-designated place in Hernando County, Florida, with a population of 5,303. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other ...

Florida's timber industry is in trouble. After hurricanes, mill closures, can it be saved? 'As tree planters, we’re the world's greatest optimists, because we plant trees not knowing what the ...

BRISTOL, Fla. — Strewn in gnarled piles from Florida's Gulf Coast up through South Georgia, the livelihood of timber farmers is on the ground. And, after the ravaging buzz saw of Hurricane ...

The Florida Forest Service, which is under the state’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, estimated the damages at almost $65 million in timber value.

Timber prices are rising as demand grows for timber used in building, paper products and biofuels worldwide. Prices for Florida saw pine peaked around 2005 — before the housing bust and the ...

The demand for timber worldwide is booming and this remote section of Florida, along with other timber-growing regions of the southeastern U.S., are benefiting.