Page 8 - Georgia Forestry - Issue2 - Spring 2019
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HurricaneMichael brought significant losses — and some gains — to South Georgia’s forest owners.
This past October, when Hurricane Michael struck his 1,500-acre prop- erty outside of Camilla, Joe Butler was supervising a logging operation. A fifth-generation Georgia land and forest owner, Butler took over as manager of the farm in 2007 and had chosen to plant 350 acres of longleaf pine, in the hope that a switch over from slash pine would improve the forest’s resistance to fire, disease
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