BREEZING INTO SUMMERTIME
…scrubbing them clean. Through tiny pores on tree leaf surfaces, trees take in air that includes toxic pollutants. By a solar-powered process called photosynthesis, the leaves pull in carbon dioxide…
Longleaf Restoration
…longleaf forests home. Their survival depends on thinned and frequently burned open pine savannah. Resources, Services and Programs for Longleaf Conservation Federal and private funds available for restoring the longleaf…
Forest Legacy & Conservation Easements
The majority of Georgia’s productive forest lands are in private ownership, but these private landowners are facing increased pressure to convert their forest lands to other uses. Georgia has identified…
State Managed Forests
…is actually composed of several tracts within close proximity of each other. Each tract is surrounded by privately owned land. This arrangement of private and Paulding Forest lands across the…
Fire Weather
…(Lavdas, 1996) and is designed to assist with planning prescribed burns in the Southern United States. VSmoke is a simple gaussian smoke dispersion model that calculates isopleths of surface smoke…
Care For Your Community’s Trees
…arborist and a homeowner tree survey checklist. PDF Managing Storm Damaged Trees: Do’s and Don’ts Check out this resource for the Do’s and Don’ts on how to manage damaged trees…
Storm Mitigation Planning
…survey checklist. PDF Managing Storm Damaged Trees: Do’s and Don’ts Check out this resource for the Do’s and Don’ts on how to manage damaged trees from a storm. Includes: how…
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
The urbanization of the rural landscape has resulted in challenges for protecting not only natural resources, but also homes and people. Communities in the WUI are at risk of catastrophic…
Canopy Studies & Tree Inventories
…acre of tree canopy lost, one acre of impervious surface was gained. The study, by Dr. Liz Kramer with the Natural Resources Spatial Analysis Laboratory (NARSAL), compared satellite imagery from…
Economic
…centers, and be a food security solution. External Website Green Cities: Safe Streets his article surveys the research on roadside vegetation benefits, and the scientific evidence concerning city trees, and…
