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Georgia post-Hurricane Helene Forestry Meeting Series 2024-12-10

For those of us with many trees blown down, this meeting should be very useful and informative.


[Public Notice]

Public Notice


POST HURRICANE HELENE FORESTRY MEETING SERIES

Participants: GA Forestry Commission (GFC), UGA Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources and
UGA Cooperative Extension Service

DAY

DATE

LOCATION

ADDRESS

Monday December 9 Tift County Extension Office 1468 Carpenter Rd S., Tifton, GA

Tuesday December 10 4-H Center, Lake Park 6100 4-H Club Rd. Lake Park, GA

Wednesday December 11 UGA Vidalia Onion and Vegetable Research Center 8163 SR-147, Lyons, GA

Thursday

 December 12 Augusta Library 823 Telfair St., Augusta, GA


AGENDA

9:00-9:20 Registration

9:20-9:30 Welcome by County Extension Agent and GFC Forester

9:30-10:00 Hurricane Helene—Timber damage assessment
— Troy Clymer and Ryan Phillips (GFC)

10:00-10:30 Forest markets and longevity — Lessons
learned from Hurricane Michael
— Devon Dartnell (GFC)

10:30-11:00 Assessing storm damaged stands —
Dr. David Dickens or Dr. David Clabo
(UGA Warnell School)

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-11:45 Lean and uprooted pines recovery —
Drs. David Dickens or David Clabo
(UGA Warnell School)

11:45-12:15 Insect and diseases post hurricanes —
frequent visits to pine stands —
Dr. Elizabeth McCarty (UGA Warnell School)

12:15-12:45 Emergency Forestry Restoration Program
(EFRP) and other programs after a declared
natural disaster — Melissa Mullis (Farm Service
Agency) or Ryan Phillips (GFC)

12:45-1:15 Lunch

1:15-1:45 Timber taxation and casualty losses—
Dr. Yanshu Li (UGA Warnell School)

1:45-2:15 Reforestation options — Dr. David Dickens or
Dr. David Clabo (UGA Warnell School)

2:15-2:45 Invasive species — ID and control options —
Dr. David Clabo (UGA Warnell School) or
Mark McClure (GFC)

2:45-3:30 Seedling availability updates — Arborgen, GFC,
Meeks Nursery, and PRT/IFCO

3:30 Adjourn


Registration is required. Each location will only accommodate 90-100 attendees.


Dec 9 & 10 meetings – call 229-386-3298 or email salina@uga.edu

Dec 11 & 12 meetings – call 912-478-8986 or email dmiracle@uga.edu

Society of American Foresters continuing forestry education credits
will be offered by meeting.

Georgia Master Timber Harvester continuing education credits
will be offered by meeting.

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Forestry rebounds economically in Georgia


Figure 4. Year-to-year percentage change in total output, employment, and compensation supported by the forest industry in 2011 dollars.
Found via
VLCIA’s blog,
PR from Office of the Governor 11 January 2013,

Forestry industry earns jobs, dollars for Georgia,
illustrated here with figures from

Economic Benefits of the Forest Industry in Georgia: 2011
by the Georgia Forestry Commission.
And let’s not forget that while paper pulp rules the roost
in Georgia at the moment, there are



far more jobs in reforestation than in nuclear,
even more than in wind or solar.

Gov. Nathan Deal today announced that a study by the Georgia
Institute of Technology for the Georgia Forestry Commission shows
that in 2011, economic activity generated by the forestry industry
topped $25 billion in output and provided 118,459 jobs.

“I am proud to see our state retain its position as a national
forestry leader,” said Deal. “Our 24 million acres of
forests are one of Georgia’s most valuable natural resources, and
the dedication of the men and women in the forestry community drive
that success. I’m confident our sustainably grown forests will be
providing both economic and environmental benefits for generations
of Georgians to come.”

Highlights of the “Economic Benefits of the Forest Industry in
Georgia: 2011” report include

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USDA Under Sec. to speak in Tifton Tuesday at forestry conference

From longleaf restoration to biomass, lots of interesting talks and tours.

Georgia Forestry Association wrote about the 30 October – 2 November 2011 Southern Woodland Owners Conference & Solutions Fair,

USDA Under Sec. to speak in Tifton Tuesday at forestry conference:

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Opening Session



Welcome Remarks and Announcements –

Introduction of Conference Co-Chairs, Steve
McWilliams, President, Georgia Forestry Assoc.

KEYNOTE: Honorable Harris Sherman, Under
Secretary for Natural Resources and
Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, DC/Introduced by Honorable Gary
Black, Commissioner, Georgia Department of
Agriculture

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Ecological value of Georgia Forests –Georgia Farm Monitor



Georgia Farm Monitor posts its TV episodes on YouTube, including this one,

Forestry Adds Huge Amount To Georgia’s Economy,
starring

Wesley Langdale of The Langdale Company
and

Chuck Leavell of the Rolling Stones (both tree farmers)
announcing $37 billion economic value of Georgia forest ecology:

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Biomass or carbon trading or something else?



To get an idea of why big timber growers might find biomass attractive,
here’s an article by Terry Dickson in the Florida Times-Union from 20 June 2005,

State’s forestry industry in an ‘alarming decline’

People have long debated whether there is a sound if a tree falls in a
forest but nobody is there to hear it.

The fall of revenue from Georgia’s forestry industry, however, has
attracted a lot of attention — but $10 billion is hard to ignore.

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Suppressing fire forest fires: a bad idea then and now



The
Longleaf Alliance
came up with some doozies of old fire-suppression propaganda
at the

Longleaf Workshops at Wiregrass Tech today.



WOODS FIRES

EVERYMAN’S ENEMY

Just in case you couldn’t visualize this enemy well enough,
how about as a pale skeleton on a white horse with a B-movie torch?



DEATH RIDES
THE FOREST

Ooh, those shadowy letters!

If all else fails, go for fake religious injunctions, such as

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Your local fire forest: Longleaf Workshop, Valdosta



This sums it up:

“Taking fire out of the longleaf forest is like taking rain out of the rain forest.”

But there’s a lot more to learn about the formerly largest-ranging forest in North America.
The
Longleaf Alliance
is doing a series of

Longleaf Workshops around Georgia, in conjunction with the

Georgia Forestry Commission


I went to the one at

Wiregrass Technical College at Valdosta.

Here is EJ Williams giving an overview:





Longleaf Workshop, Valdosta, 10 February 2011.

Video by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.



Good crowd: more than 50 people.
More later.
We’re on break now.

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Center of Innovation – Energy

Where’s Waldo?
And where’s the

state renewable energy strategy for Georgia, or for the southeast, or for just south Georgia?
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA)
Project Manager Allan Ricketts

found another candidate.

“Forests Dominate Georgia’s Land Use”



That’s the title of slide 10 of 21 in

Center of Innovation – Energy (CIE)
by Jill Stuckey, Director.
Actually, massively pesticided planted pines dominate south Georgia’s land use;
not the same as actual forests with species diversity and diverse ages of trees.
The same CIE slide equates

Georgia Forestry = Biomass Energy

That is what the state government seems to want it to be.

Back on slide 9, solar is defined as a southwestern regional energy
source; nevermind that the solar map on that page shows Georgia
with the same insolation as most of Texas (more on that later).
And wind is defined as a central U.S. regional strength,
nevermind that even Georgia Power has started exploring the
possibility of wind off the Georgia coast.

I get it that Georgia has trees and forestry is a big industry in Georgia.
I’m a tree farmer myself.
I’d love to be convinced that biomass from trees is one good way to go.
But at what costs?
And compared to what?

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