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Georgia Prescribed Fire Council 2024 Annual Statewide Meeting
Thursday, September 19, 2024
2024 Annual Meeting
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Lake Blackshear Resort & Golf Club
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
2459-H U.S. Highway 280 West
Cordele, GA 31015
To register, visit https://www.garxfire.com/index.php/events
Forestry and Wildlife Expo
Saturday, August 24, 2024
FREE Admission
Stop by and visit with local contractors, consultants, and agency representatives to discover resources
that will help you achieve your land management goals.
The day will include exhibitors, talks, demonstrations, and great door prizes!
FREE Admission
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Inside & Outside Exhibits)
Marion County High School
1 Eagle Drive
Buena Vista, Ga.
For more information contact RT Lumpkin (478) 957-0307
Landowner Workshop: “Making Your Forest Land Work for You”
Friday, June 7, 2024
Pre-registration required
The Nature Conservancy, Longleaf Alliance, and Georgia Forestry Commission are collaborating to host a “Making Your Forest Land Work For You” landowner workshop at the Chamber of Commerce building in Talbotton, Ga., on June 7th.
New landowners, landowners just beginning to think about land management, underserved landowners, and landowners with heirs property concerns are especially encouraged to attend.
Information will include forest management basics, an introduction to local resource people who can provide land management advice, different ways to make money from your forested land, and details about cost share programs landowners can apply to that will help pay for land management activities.
Staff from The Georgia Heirs Property Law Center and McIntosh S.E.E.D. programs will also be on the agenda and provide information about clearing title to land enabling landowners to access cost share programs along with estate planning and the transfer of generational wealth.
Preregistration is required and audience size is limited.
Register here today: https://longleafalliance.org/
Columbus and the Valley Magazine
“The Nature Conservancy: Conservation Activities Focused on the Long Haul”
The Nature Conservancy has worked across the Chattahoochee Valley since the 1990s in partnership with Fort Moore to conserve, restore, and manage the natural landscapes around Columbus. Enjoy the short article starting on page 19 of the March-April 2024 issue to learn more!
National Public Radio
“Georgia Department of Natural Resources Reintroduces Rare Birds Back to Sprewell Bluff WMA:
After almost 50 years, red-cockaded woodpeckers are back at Sprewell Bluff WMA!
The red-cockaded woodpecker, or RCW, is an endangered bird species once found throughout the southeastern U.S. However, habitat loss has drastically reduced their populations and the species was last documented at Sprewell Bluff in 1976.
Crews from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources brought fire back to Sprewell Bluff in 2001, followed by years of timber thins, longleaf pine planting, and hack-n-squirt efforts to control hardwoods. Following the hard work to restore longleaf pine woodlands beneficial to these birds and other wildlife, three pairs of RCWs were transported from Fort Stewart and released into artificial nest cavities on the WMA. This process of translocation was coordinated through federal and state conservation agencies with the hope the birds take to their new home and begin raising young starting this spring, ending the species’ long absence from these woodlands.
This project was funded by the Georgia Ornithological Society, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Knobloch Family Foundation, and the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program. More translocations are planned for the coming years. The hope is Sprewell Bluff WMA will someday support about 25 cluster sites of red-cockaded woodpeckers.