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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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