Don’t Move Firewood
Georgia Forestry Commission Forest Health experts say moving firewood has been linked to the spread of destructive, non-native insects and diseases to forest ecosystems. While these pests can’t move far on their own, they can travel hundreds of miles when people move firewood, logs, chips, and mulch. Forest pests can kill our native trees and be very expensive, if not impossible, to control.
GFC Leaf Watch
…move far on their own, they can travel hundreds of miles when people move firewood, logs, chips, and mulch. Forest pests can kill our native trees and be very expensive,…
Connecting with the next Generation of Passionate Professionals
…by working on his farm. He enjoys hunting and fishing and is an accomplished wood worker. From custom furniture and cutting boards to jewelry, bowls, decorative items, revolver grips, and…
Would wood work? Builders eye mass timber for construction, conservation
…by “the good Lord.” Here, he says, is an age-old longleaf pine stand towering over wiregrass and gallberry scrub. There’s a gopher tortoise whose sandy burrow provides shelter for hundreds…
GFC’s Local Forest Ranger and WUI Specialist Receives Fire Prevention Award
It’s not a secret that the Georgia Forestry Commission family is composed of hundreds of men and women who bring a formidable amount of expertise to forest landowners and the…
Law Enforcement Warns About Fake Burn Permitting Scam
…year against the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, when fake fishing and hunting licenses were being offered. A “burn permit” Google search returns an advertisement for the bogus site in…
Taxes & Estate Planning
…timberlands for their families in order to provide a perpetual source of family ownership, revenue, recreation, hunting and the appreciation of nature and/or the farming way of life, may wish…
Forests for Georgia, Georgia for Forests
…millions who visit the state each year. Outdoor recreation is also big business in the state. About 400,000 Georgians hunt and more than twice as many fish, bringing in $5.5…
Distribution and Spread of Laurel Wilt Disease in Georgia (2006-08)
Survey and Field Observations – Laurel wilt is a disease of woody plants in the laurel family (Lauraceae). Hundreds of millions of redbay (Persea borbonia) trees have been killed by laurel wilt in the southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain region of the United States.
Pine Straw Producers Directory
…Ga31750 Phone 770-500-8246 Fax: B & B Straw Sales Bennie Bulloch Manchester, GA31816 Phone 706-846-3665 Fax: Bobby Burch Bobby Burch Cadwell, GA31009 Phone 478-689-4218 Fax: Bowen Pine Straw Marcy Hunter…
