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June 2, 2021
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WATCH | GFA Board Member Testifies Before Senate Agriculture Committee

Zach Clifton
Communications & Digital Media Intern

On May 20, 2021, GFA Board Member Troy Harris, Managing Director of Timberland at Jamestown LP, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry at a hearing addressing forestland and the opportunities for impacting climate change. 

Harris, a certified forester with over 25 years of experience in public and institutional timberland portfolio management, advocated for private working forests and their part as a natural climate solution. Harris discussed the carbon benefits of forests, and provided testimony in support of:

  • expanding markets for carbon sequestration in working forests; 
  • encouraging the use of wood in tall building construction; and, 
  • improving forest carbon data through the U.S. Forest Service. 

To see the highlights from the Senate hearing here: 

For the full hearing including other testimony visit: www.agriculture.senate.gov/hearings/federal-state-and-private-forestlands-opportunities-for-addressing-climate-change

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  1. Matt Hestad says

    June 3, 2021 at 9:29 am

    I’m thankful for GFA members like Mr. Harris who are supporting our goal to tell the story of Georgia’s working forests as a solution to so many challenges that we face.

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