CENTER FOR FOREST COMPETITIVENESS
PROVIDING SOLUTIONS TO OUR GREATEST CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Through the Georgia Forestry Foundation’s Center for Forest Competitiveness, GFA is focused on delivering research and solutions to ensure the long-term sustainability of Georgia’s working forests.
The Center’s current projects are focused on providing data and analysis related to supply chain efficiency, market potential and availability and ecosystem services.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Ensuring Efficiency of Trucking and Logistics
A key to sustaining working forests and ensuring a viable forest products industry is ensuring the efficiency of the forest product supply chain. GFA is focused on researching and addressing safety and cost efficiencies gained through increased haul weights and access to the interstate system.
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Advancing Mass Timber Construction
Adoption of mass timber technology in modern building construction will help to enhance the value of timberland and manufacturing assets in the state. GFA is focused on projects that educate builders, architects and the general public on the benefits mass timber.
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Developing Ecosystem Services Payments
Forested watersheds play a vital role in storing and purifying water for downstream consumers, and provide two-thirds of the drinking water in the U.S. GFA is focused on developing ecosystem services payments to landowners who help sustain water quality and quantity for local communities who depend on forested watersheds for their drinking water.
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CONTACT
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