Timber

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Timber

• Natural Resources and Conservation

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What is Timber?

• Wood either standing or being processed.
• Often referred to as lumber in construction.

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Forest Fires

• -1 cause of wildfire in Georgia is debris
  burning -approximately 51 of all wildfires in
  Georgia
• -2 cause of wildfires in Georgia is arson
  -approximately 18 of all wildfires in Georgia

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Forest Health
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Pest Issues

• Regional Pest Issues
• -Pine Bark Beetle
• -Annosum root disease
• -Non-native exotic pests
• -hemlock woolly adelgid
• -gypsy moth
• -redbay ambrosia beetle / laurel wilt disease

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Pine Bark Beetle
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Laurel Wilt Disease

• Redbay tree
• Laurel Wilt family
• Introduced by non-native insect
• redbay ambrosia beetle

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Bibliography

• Georgia Forestry Commission. Forrest Management.
  http//www.gfc.state.ga.us/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber
• http//www.fs.fed.us/r8/foresthealth/laurelwilt/in
  dex.shtml
• http//www.gatrees.org/ForestFire/Wildfire.cfm