Forestry News

Joe Dahlen pushes a board through a universal bending machine

Properties’ appraisal: Studying carbon sequestration through tree growth, density and chemistry

Note: This story is part of a special issue of The Warnell Log focused on carbon If you want to quantify carbon, what conversion equations or models do you use, and how do you quantify variability? That’s where Warnell associate professor Joe Dahlen comes in. Dahlen is the director of the Wood…
Faculty member Elizabeth King facilitates a workshop at Liberia’s Forestry Training Institute on soft skills in the forest industry.

Warnell faculty assist in $5M grant for forest conservation in Liberia

Nestled in the heart of West Africa’s rainforests, the Republic of Liberia holds a rich history in the region. It also is home to millions of acres of forests, some of the last remaining West African rainforests on the continent.   As the country recovers and rebuilds after more than a decade…
A stand of pine trees

Do I need to pay the net investment income tax on my timber income?

The short answer is: It depends. The slightly longer answer is that it is determined by the classification of your timber holding, the way to sell the timber and your modified adjusted gross income for the net investment income tax purposes.     What is the net investment income tax? The…
A detail of a Hawthorne tree's flowers

Hiding in plain sight: Georgia's native hawthorn trees

Let’s play a tree game. How many of Georgia’s native trees can you identify? There are more than 260 native trees from the mountains to the sea in Georgia. The second-most numerous genera group among Georgia’s native trees is Crataegus—hawthorns. How many hawthorns can you find and identify? They…
Joe Dahlen inserts a board into a device to measure its strength

Associate professor seeks to better understand the wood trees produce

Not all wood is created equal. We know this by looking at the grain on a piece of cut timber. But what’s going on inside the wood to make it that way—and how do you measure that at such a scale that captures the variability of what’s being grown? This is what Joe Dahlen’s lab at the University of…

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