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Florida Forest Service reports no southern pine beetle outbreak in Clay County; highlights urban tree plantings and prescribed burns
Summary
The county forester reported no detection of southern pine beetle this year, two large timber sales on state forest lands, 3,700 acres of prescribed burns on state forests, and multiple educational and tree-planting events in Clay County.
Clay County’s county forester, Carlton Scott of the Florida Forest Service, briefed the board on the agency’s annual activity and monitoring in Clay County.
Scott said the county set a less-than‑5% chance of a southern pine beetle outbreak for the year and that no beetles were detected in the annual traps or aerial surveys. The agency prepared two forest management plans for private landowners, one…
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