Guest Blog – McIntosh SEED
…verify their property boundaries. Recognizing this need, Mclntosh SEED emphasizes and works hand-in-hand with these landowners, connecting them to the resources they need to protect their assets and prevent the…
Forest Health
…beetle/Laurel Wilt disease. Common concerns include: Diseases (and Helpful Resources) Details about tree diseases common to Georgia: Heterobasidion Root Disease (formerly Annosum Root Disease) – Many Georgia landowners with property…
Community Wildfire Protection Plan
…-2017 PDF Dodge CWPP -2016 PDF Dooly CWPP -2017 PDF Dougherty CWPP -2017 PDF Early CWPP -2018 PDF Echols CWPP -2018 PDF Effingham CWPP -2018 PDF Elbert County CWPP (Revised…
Care For Your Community’s Trees
Benefits of a thriving urban canopy: Increasing property value. The presence of larger street trees can add from 3% – 15% to home values. Increasing spending in business districts. Shoppers…
Landowner Resources
…each spot is at varying levels. The Georgia Forestry Commission recognizes a spot as eradicated after three consecutive years of finding no cogongrass resprouts. PDF 2021 Dirty Dozen (Top Twelve…
Area Timber Thefts Yield Arrest and More Investigation
…said Georgia Forestry Commission Law Enforcement Chief Brian Clavier. “Price has been charged with theft by taking and criminal damage to property, both felonies. He is also charged with criminal…
Chattahoochee Fall Line Prescribed Fire Cooperative
…a learn & burn and a live-fire demonstration. Field Trips Landowners will be able to attend a planned burn on another private landowner’s property or one of our local partner…
Shortleaf Pine & Oak Restoration in the Georgia Cumberlands Cost Share Project
…commercial thinning, and $125/acre for pre-commercial thinning. Eligibility Requirements Applicant must be the legal landowner; Applicant must be private, non-industrial landowner owning the property in one of the eligible Northwest…
Landowners Can Help Reduce Wildfire in Georgia
…the weather, and have shovels and hoes and water on hand. Yet wildland firefighters continue to see common mistakes that lead to loss of woodlands, property and even lives. Despite…
Prevention Tactics Shared as Fire Danger Rises
…their property as well as the property of others.” The Georgia Forestry Commission is partnering with the Florida and Alabama Forestry Departments to share fire safety tactics far and wide….
