Georgia Forestry Commission offering help to landowners following Michael
…Hurricane Michael. Aid approved by the Georgia Legislature in November includes $20 million for debris cleanup in areas where the storm destroyed millions of acres of forestland and tree orchards….
Connecting with the next Generation of Passionate Professionals
…for a first thinning and was recently able to evaluate those same stands as they were being thinned. He said he enjoyed operating the equipment for a 60-foot culvert install…
Conservation Woodland Program
…Coneflower Spiderwort Bee Balm False Rosemary St. John’s Wort Blackeyed Susan Hardy Lantana Sunflower Buttonbush Ironweed Sweet Pepperbush Butterfly Weed and other Milkweeds Hyssop Wheat Celosia Catnip Joe-pye Weed Wild…
Local Forestry Employees Earn 2021 Performance Award
…recognized for assisting Human Resources in the new-hire process and was instrumental in securing a large grant for the replanting of trees destroyed by Hurricane Michael in the City of…
My Three-Month Internship with the GFC
…checks, and with Forest Health Specialist Mark McClure, checking and spraying cogongrass. Ultimately, my summer was extremely busy! I built up about 120 cases in three months. I enjoyed it…
Leaf Watch Report for November 11th, 2021
…Some of the early turners have begun to fade. Birch leaves are largely played out for the season. Poplars are also mostly bare. Lower elevations should be in peak this…
Local Forestry Employees Earn 2021 Performance Award
…to their many skills, more than $30,000 in savings was realized, electrical wiring projects and upgrades at two county offices were completed, and two employees volunteered and deployed to western…
Newnan Tornado Recovery – One Year Later
…that tore through the city. More than $75 million in losses were recorded from the F-4 storm and 567 acres of tree canopy were destroyed. Since that devastating evening in…
COGONGRASS: IF YOU SEE IT, REPORT IT!
…through site-specific herbicide treatments conducted by GFC’s Forest Health Program specialists. These treatments are done at no cost to the landowner. Once the area is sprayed with herbicide, GFC foresters…
Would wood work? Builders eye mass timber for construction, conservation
…and cars stayed in garages, greenhouse gas emissions – the main contributor to the warming world – dropped 6 percent. The reprieve proved short-lived. The amount of carbon dioxide shot…
