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Two University of Georgia faculty members associated with the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources have received national teaching awards from the USDA.
Pete Bettinger, the Leon "Buddy" Hargreaves Jr.… Read Article
It’s been 40 years since Rex Benham (BSFR ’82) traded the rolling hills of Georgia with the open skies of East Texas, but he feels he got a good deal in the end.
“Texas isn’t all that different from Georgia,” says Benham, who manages about 240,000 acres of pine stands for Resource… Read Article
On the one hand, logging companies are facing a crisis: There are about 40% fewer logging businesses today than there were 30 years ago, with many more owners slated to retire in the next decade.
But on the other hand, the industry is primed for new growth, stemming from a new generation… Read Article
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Staring into a glob of mud, the students saw some movement. A few whipped out their phones to capture what they were watching.
Except, one dropped. The one with the cleanest hands was elected to wipe it off. “But my credit cards are… Read Article
It’s been a busy fall semester for Margaret Griggs.
Arriving on campus as a transfer student, Griggs first needed to learn the ins and outs of being a University of Georgia student. But at the same time, she needed to focus on a new project: Restarting UGA’s mountain biking team.
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If only it were as simple as finding more grassland for an antelope.
The story of efforts to conserve the endangered oribi in South Africa represent a diaspora of issues as varied as the… Read Article
The view from Elizabeth McCarty’s window is a lot more colorful lately—and more friendly to bees.
Earlier this spring, McCarty, an assistant professor and forest health specialist for the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources who based at UGA’s Tifton… Read Article
On its surface, the timber industry can seem simple: Trees grow, they’re harvested, they’re replanted.
But if you dig a little deeper, you uncover layers of intricacies. There are state and federal policies, international influences, asset distributions, planning, data collection and more… Read Article
Let’s take hurricanes, for example.
We don’t know the exact paths they’ll take to crisscross the Southeast each year, but we can make an educated guess.
To do this, we’ll need a few things. Start with gathering the ages of the trees, the content of the soil, maybe even additional… Read Article
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