Forestry Articles

The owner of a Tioga County lumber company is establishing an endowed scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology to benefit forest technology students from Northcentral Pennsylvania. Ray Wheeland, owner and chief executive officer of Wheeland Lumber Co. Inc., Liberty, recently completed the agreement for the Wheeland Lumber Co. Scholarship at Penn College.

Forestry students in Dennis F. Ringling's timber harvesting and equipment lab at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently completed a project that combined civic service with a respect for local history. The class helped the Muncy Historical Society remove diseased, unsafe and storm-felled trees from the site of its proposed Heritage Park and Nature Trail along the old West Branch Canal. "Dr.

PPL Corp. recently donated an Echo chain saw to Penn College's Forestry Club for a Spring 2006 fund-raiser, continuing the utility company's historic partnership with the college's School of Natural Resources Management. On hand at the Earth Science Center for the donation were, from left, Dennis F. Ringling, forestry professor; Douglas J.