Approximately 19,043 acres of longleaf pine were planted in Georgia in 2019 alone. Longleaf pine’s silvical characteristics, fire adaptations, and tolerance of low fertility sites once made it the dominant pine species across many vegetation cover types of the Coastal Plain. Major restoration efforts have been occurring across longleaf’s native range during recent decades. The
Timber taxes are one of the major expenses every private forest landowner needs to take care of. Federal and state incentives are available to provide tax relief to qualified forest landowners. However, many of them continue to pay more than their fair share due to lack of knowledge on timber taxation. The recent tax reform
Forisk's 4th Annual Wood Flows & Cash Flows Conference will be held on December 8, 2020 via Zoom Webinar. Maximizing returns from timberland assets and wood-using facilities relies on a current, localized understanding of factors driving forest industry economics, markets and technologies. Wood Flows & Cash Flows details investment-relevant research and insights for the forest industry. This
We invite you to join your colleagues for a Building with Mass Timber Virtual Workshop on December 10th, from 10 am - 3 pm ET. Architects, construction specialists, building owners, and others will share why they chose Mass Timber for their projects and how you could too. In this workshop, you will learn: • Why
People First: A Focus on Servant Leadership Special Guest Speaker: Stewart Vernon Founder and COO of American Swimming Pool Company Join the Georgia Forestry Association's Emerging Leaders on Dec. 10 at 2:00 p.m. for a special virtual Fall Leadership Summit with guest speaker Stewart Vernon, Founder and CEO of American Swimming Pool Company. This
SEMINAR ON DECEMBER 15! 9 am - 10:30 am (Pacific Time) "Mass Timber Momentum: Sustainability and Ascent, the World's First 25-Story Mass Timber Building" This value-packed, December 15 seminar provides key insights on... a roundtable discussion from key stakeholders involved in Ascent, the (soon-to-be) world's tallest timber tower currently under construction in Wisconsin, mass
Successful landscape conservation depends upon the ability to work across multiple organizations and land ownerships to manage for shared conservation values. Private landowners are a key class of ownerships. Working farms, ranches, and forests are often the last best places for intact, fertile, habitable open land. They can provide interconnected permeable landscapes where nature and
The Woman Landowner Academy is a 6-week online program hosted through a private Facebook Group, only open to participants. Within the group you will have exclusive access to materials, resources, land management professionals, as well as the opportunity to join a network of women just like you. The Academy will include weekly one hour LIVE
Healthy, well-managed forests lead to safe and reliable drinking water, less water treatment, and less energy and chemicals used in drinking water treatment process. By paying forest landowners for these water cleaning services (or, ecosystem services), water users and providers can exponentially reduce their costs. So, what is the best mechanism, or structure, for an