{"id":2293,"date":"2011-03-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/ecological-value-of-georgia-forests-georgia-farm-monitor.html"},"modified":"2011-03-21T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:00:00","slug":"ecological-value-of-georgia-forests-georgia-farm-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/ecological-value-of-georgia-forests-georgia-farm-monitor.html","title":{"rendered":"Ecological value of Georgia Forests &#8211;Georgia Farm Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h80feaYX2mk\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/h80feaYX2mk\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nGeorgia Farm Monitor posts its TV episodes on YouTube, including this one,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h80feaYX2mk\"><br \/>\nForestry Adds Huge Amount To Georgia&#8217;s Economy<\/a>,<br \/>\nstarring<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h80feaYX2mk\"><br \/>\nWesley Langdale<\/a> of The Langdale Company<br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/georgia-forests-worth-more-standing-than-incinerated.html\"><br \/>\nChuck Leavell<\/a> of the Rolling Stones (both tree farmers)<br \/>\nannouncing $37 billion economic value of Georgia forest ecology:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEvery year the forestry industry pumps billions of dollars into Georgia&#8217;s<br \/>\neconomy. Wood products are all around us and by growing and harvesting<br \/>\ntimber the people of Georgia benefit greatly. Now a study conducted<br \/>\nby the University of Georgia finds the forestry sector&#8217;s value is far<br \/>\ngreater than previously thought. The Monitor&#8217;s Mark Wildman explains.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h80feaYX2mk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<small><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.farm-monitor.com\/\"><br \/>\nGeorgia Farm Monitor<\/a> is<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;the only national and state weekly news and information television program dedicated to Georgia&#8217;s largest and Number One industry &#8211; agriculture. It airs 15 times a week on Georgia television stations, and three times per week on the RFD-TV Network.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/small><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nNote the governor continuing to tout biomass.<br \/>\nMaybe he hadn&#8217;t heard that<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/shell-companies-adage-and-wiregrass-power-llc.html\"><br \/>\nAdage has failed to build even one of its proposed 10 to 12 biomass plants<br \/>\naround the country.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThere are better economic ideas for Georgia forests,<br \/>\nsuch as<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-business-of-carbon-trading-in-georgia.html\"><br \/>\ncarbon trading<\/a><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/03\/the-jobs-are-in-the-trees-reforestation.html\">reforestation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Farm Monitor posts its TV episodes on YouTube, including this one, Forestry Adds Huge Amount To Georgia&#8217;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:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556,120,14,16,740,734,55],"tags":[8779,4883,2637,8704,8701,4881,742,918,4885,46,4886,4884,4882,4887,8727,4825],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air","category-biomass","category-economy","category-environment","category-forestry","category-television","category-water","tag-air","tag-chuck-leavell","tag-ecology","tag-economy","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-farm-monitor","tag-georgia-forestry-association","tag-georgia-forestry-commission","tag-georgia-forestry-foundation","tag-nathan-deal","tag-rebecca-moore","tag-rolling-stones","tag-the-langdale-company","tag-warnell-school","tag-water","tag-wesley-langdale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}