Storm Mitigation Planning
…help. Understand eligible costs and how to seek reimbursement from FEMA. Review and become familiar with the county plan and your EMA director. Communication with your partners is critical. Considerations…
Incident Command System
…safety. The Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) helps when emergencies overwhelm local government. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) helps when emergencies overwhelm the states. What Are Incident Management (IMT)…
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) in Georgia
…two generations per year and each female can lay up to 175 eggs each time. Damage Caused HWA Infested Hemlock (photo courtesy of bugwood.org) With two generations per year, HWA…
Asian Longhorned Beetle
…and bluish feet (Figure 1). Figure 1: Adult Asian longhorned beetle Figure 2: Females scratch a depression in the bark and lay an egg In two weeks when the egg…
2021 Cogongrass Percent Inactive Map Winter Update
Sources: Esri, Airbus DS, USGS, NGA, NASA, CGIAR, N Robinson, NCEAS, NLS, OS,NMA, Geodatastyrelsen, Rijkswaterstaat, GSA, Geoland, FEMA, Intermap and the GIS user community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
2022 Cogongrass County Density Map Winter Update
Sources: Esri, Airbus DS, USGS, NGA, NASA, CGIAR, N Robinson, NCEAS, NLS, OS, NMA, Geodatastyrelsen, Rijkswaterstaat, GSA, Geoland, FEMA, Intermap and the GIS user community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
2022 Known Cogongrass in Georgia Map
Sources: Esri, Airbus DS, USGS, NGA, NASA, CGIAR, N Robinson, NCEAS, NLS, OS, NMA, Geodatastyrelsen, Rijkswaterstaat, GSA, Geoland, FEMA, Intermap and the GIS user community, Sources: Esri, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
Teacher Conservation Workshop gets an A+
…the female buds on a tree with a selected pollen source. One thing that rings true across the board is that there wasn’t a single part of the process that…
Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science!
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we interviewed two of GFC’s female foresters to learn what got them interested in a career in forestry, and…
