Building Healthy Forests for Birds
…study published in the journal Science in 2019 revealed three billion, or one in four birds, have disappeared from our landscapes in the past 50 years, including common birds, like…
2024 American Tree Farm System Landscape Management Plan for the State of Georgia
The American Forest Foundation (AFF), in conjunction with Southern Forestry Consultants, Inc.(SFC), developed the original components, outlines, structure, and drafts of the Landscape Management Plan (LMP) and the associated geodatabase. AFF and SFC also worked cooperatively to evaluate and incorporate edits, comments, and modifications that resulted in the final LMP and geodatabase.
Milledgeville Forester Awarded for Outstanding Service to Landowners
…of Georgia forestland. He has helped protect waterways alongside GFC’s Water Quality team, fought wildfires in- and out-of-state, plowed firebreaks, assisted with nursery operations, and influenced some 2500 people through…
BILLY LANCASTER SUMMER YOUTH CAMP
…Forestry Youth Camp at Lake Jackson. The camp is in its 35th year and is named in memory of its founder, who was a Georgia forest industry leader. This year…
BREEZING INTO SUMMERTIME
…can provide up to four people with a full day’s supply of oxygen! And here’s the next amazing air-cleaning tree fact: trees store that carbon dioxide in their fibers, helping…
SOPERTON NATIVE NAMED STATE FIRE PROTECTION CHIEF
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 3, 2024 Protecting the state from wildfires is a foundational mission of the Georgia Forestry Commission. Directing the multi-faceted operations of firefighting and fire prevention is…
Canopy Studies & Tree Inventories
…plots across the United States serves as the program’s foundation. External Website iTree Software i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban and…
Public Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal
A consistent, comparable set of scientific results to be used as a foundation for wildfire mitigation and prevention planning in the Southern states
Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis
The Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program has provided the Nation’s forest census since 1930. A system of forest measurement field plots across the United States serves as the program’s foundation.
Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal
Tool to provide a consistent, comparable set of scientific results to be used as a foundation for wildfire mitigation and prevention planning
