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Forestry leaders detail Hurricane Helene losses, market challenges and proposed relief bills
Summary
The Georgia Forestry Commission, Georgia Forestry Association and allied groups briefed committee members on storm damage, inventory methods, market pressures and legislative proposals to aid reforestation and industry recovery.
Johnny Saba, director of the Georgia Forestry Commission, told the Economic Development & Tourism Committee that Georgia is the nation’s largest forestry state and outlined the agency’s role in forest protection, inventory and market support.
“Georgia is the number 1 forester state in the nation. A $42,000,000,000 economy and we're the biggest exporter of forest products out of our port in Savannah,” Saba said. He described the commission’s prescribed-fire and forest‑management work, its fixed-plot inventory program (roughly 6,000 permanent plots on a five‑year cycle) and timber‑products output surveys used to measure growth versus harvest.
Saba and other presenters said Hurricane Helene caused large-scale timber…
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