Ask The Arborist
…value for use as lumber or other wood products. The main impediment to selling your landscape trees is the cost of their removal. PDF What is my yard tree worth?…
Firewise USA® Program
…Monticello Walnut Mountain POA, Inc. Gilmer County Ellijay West Lake Club Haralson County Bremen Wildcat Community, Inc. Pickens County Big Canoe Wood Lake Subdivision Towns County Young Harris Woodbine Camden…
Timber Sales & Harvest Advice
…private landowners selling trees, timber or wood by lump sum. PDF Forest Product Sales Contract for Per-unit Sales Sample Sample contract agreement for private landowners selling trees, timber or wood…
Forest Industry Continues to Boost Georgia’s Economy
…products such as poles and posts, wood pulp and energy products such as wood pellets. Approximately 1,100 secondary manufacturers convert wood products into furniture, manufacture homes and buildings, paper products…
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB)
Updated September 26, 2023 David Cappaert, Michigan State University, Bugwood.org photo credit The emerald ash borer (EAB) is an exotic insect that belongs to a group of metallic wood-boring beetles….
Carbon Sequestration
…branches, and leaves. Wood products that are harvested from forests also provide long-term storage of carbon. Georgia Carbon Sequestration Registry & Carbon Offsets Businesses that emit carbon can “offset” the…
Taxes & Estate Planning
…Timber is taxed at 100% of its fair market value and includes softwood and hardwood pulpwood, chip-and-saw logs, saw timber, poles, posts and fuel wood. The owner and/or seller, upon…
Trees Across Georgia (TAG) Grant Program
…tree care, tree planting, or tree education efforts Urban Wood Utilization – Projects that increase knowledge, awareness, and visibility of urban wood utilization and recycling. Grant funding may be applied…
Learn, Plan, Act
A Common Goal – Better Land Management The two organizations joined together to create this initiative because 89 percent of the south’s woodlands are privately owned, but only a small…
