BLOUNTSTOWN, Fla. - Fifth-generation timber farmer Will Leonard and his wife, Morgan, found out they were pregnant with their first child one week before Hurricane Michael unleashed its Category ...
BLOUNTSTOWN (CBSMiami/AP) — Florida timber farmers have some tough choices to make a year after Hurricane Michael. The sunsets are a sight to behold in Joe Leonard's neck of the woods these days. A ...
Jody Roberts, a 71-year-old tree farmer, sat in his truck last week and watched his land burn. Over 100 acres of stumps and splintered slash pine smoldered, disintegrated to ash and floated into the ...
In this Oct. 5, 2019 photo, Daniel Leonard and his father Joe, right, stand near a heap of lumber on their family's property. The massive storm killed more than two dozen people in northern Florida, ...
BLOUNTSTOWN, Fla. (AP) — The sunsets are a sight to behold in Joe Leonard’s neck of the woods these days. A year ago, lush stands of towering pines obscured the horizon, he said as he drove his pickup ...