Gary White Named GFC Interim Director
Georgia Forestry Commission Deputy Director Gary White has been appointed to the post of Interim Director for the agency. Governor Brian Kemp requested White assume the role of State Forester,…
Local Forester Named GFC 2020 Forester of the Year
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 2, 2020 The Georgia Forestry Commission has named Region 4 Field Forester Stephen Martin, as the agency’s 2020 Forester of the Year. The prestigious award is…
FFP Program Overview
The Firefighter Property (FFP) Program refers to excess Department of Defense (DoD) property that is suitable for use in providing fire and emergency services. The FFP Program began in 2005; Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) began participating in 2012. The US Department of Defense (DoD) allows USFS to manage excess DoD Firefighting property transfers. USFS works in cooperation with the State agency responsible for wildland and rural firefighting to ensure authorized and qualified firefighting entities are Users/Recipients of the property.
Teacher Conservation Workshop gets an A+
…already in place. It’s amazing to see a “control room” in a self-sustaining mill! Everything they do is focused on efficiency, and they leave no part of the process to…
Explore and Enjoy Georgia’s Public Lands
…wildfire resiliency, research, and soil and water conservation. Dixon Memorial State Forest is also a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) that provides hunting and fishing opportunities to the public. To visit…
Longleaf Restoration
…for landowner’s interested in longleaf pine conservation include: Working Forest Conservation Easements Agricultural Conservation Easement Program Georgia Land Trust The Nature Conservancy Helpful Resources for Planting and Harvesting Longleaf Pine…
Cost Share & Incentive Programs
…higher level of environmental stewardship. Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) A cost-share that helps the owners of non-industrial private forests restore forest health damaged by natural disasters. Healthy Forests Reserve…
State Managed Forests
…Nature Conservancy as part of its Broxton Rocks conservation priority area. The GFC board recently approved the inclusion of this property as a foot travel only access tract as part…