Page 26 - Georgia Forestry - Issue2 - Spring 2018
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The Scope of Water
By Stasia Kelly
Working forests critical to conserving Savannah River watershed
Ask a forest industry advocate about the benefits provided by forestland in Georgia, and you might risk the possibility of having an ear talked off. Ask a grade schooler in Augusta where their water comes from and the answer just might be “the Dasani factory” or
have partnered with water utilities to protect the 2.8 million-acre Savannah River watershed by promoting voluntary forest conservation, restoration, and management of priority lands adjacent to the river.
Anderson
Elbert
Wilkes
Taliaferro
Warren
Glascock
Washington
Johnson
Laurens
Jenkins
Candler
Evans Tattnall
Fairfield
“the faucet.” And while those responses are technically correct, the perceived connection between clean water and forestland is lost on a whole lot of people. That’s why the Georgia
and South Carolina Forestry Commissions
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Priority regions and counties in the Savannah River watershed.
Treutlen
Bulloch
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Montgomery Wheeler
Tel0fair 5 10 Jeff Davis
Abbeville
Lincoln
Newberry
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Calho
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Bamberg Dor
Colleto
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South Carolina Georgia
Jefferson
Emanuel
Toombs
Bryan
Liberty
95
Beaufort
20
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30
40
50
Miles Long
Kilometers
Appling
Wayne
Lexington
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SOUTH CAROLINA CHAPTER, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
Columbia
Richland
