Georgia Wood-Using Industries Directory
…cedar, red oak, white oak, yellow-poplar, hickory Products:lumber-rough By-Products:slabs, sawdust Phone: 706-888-9308 Email:bobborneman@gmail.com Website: Champion Lumber Company Physical Address: 22722 Hwy 83 North Shady Dale, GA 31085 County: Jasper Mill…
FAQs
…is the use of renewable forest biomass to produce energy products such as wood pellets, industrial heat, electricity, and transportation fuels. As forests grow, trees absorb carbon dioxide from the…
Community Forestry Assistance
…tabs below for more information to consider: Urban Forest Map Where are trees abundant, scarce, healthy, unhealthy, or damaged? Is our community gaining or losing our tree cover, and at…
Environmental
…importantly, trees produce oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide. Studies show one acre of trees produces enough oxygen for 18 people every day. According to American Forests, the forests in Atlanta…
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) in Georgia
…costs of raising predator beetles in labs and other environmental factors, these insectaries will be a place where predator beetles can be collected in the wild and moved to other…
Making your Home more Energy Efficient – by Planting Trees
…to 20 percent. Trees’ leaves are valuable tools that shade the heat-absorbing surfaces of our homes. As the sun’s rays strike the leaves, the rays are blocked and absorbed. This…
Sudden Oak Death (SOD) in Georgia
Sudden Oak Death (Bark) – Joseph O’Brien, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org Sudden Oak Death (SOD) was first reported in 1995 in central coastal California. Since then, tens of thousands of…
Carbon Registry
2024 Georgia Carbon Registry Amendment The purpose of the amendment to the Georgia Carbon Registry is to promote the use of building products used in construction in Georgia that sequester…
Reflections on the Big Fire of 2007
…cabs, enveloped by dense, black smoke. At one point, Sorrells radioed them directions to blast their horns, so rescuers could pinpoint their locations. It was then that Sorrells also realized…
Southern Pine Beetles
Figure 2: Southern pine beetle gallery – Photo by Ronald F. Billngs, Texas A&M Forest Service, Bugwood.org. Figure 1: Southern pine beetle – Photo by Gerald J. Lenhard, Louisiana State…
