Page 17 - Georgia Forestry - Issue 2 - Spring 2024

“Planting a tree provides both instant and delayed gratification. If the instant gratification is that you just did something good, it’s going to be 25 years later before that tree throws off the shade for you to rest in. But it’s going to keep giving from the time you plant it to the time you harvest it.”
— Jason Dunn, Executive Director, Fitzgerald and Ben Hill County Development Authority
a lack of opportunity, but have now straightened out their lives and need stable employment.
“Planting a tree provides both instant and delayed gratification,” Dunn said. “If the instant gratification is that you just did something good, it’s going to be 25 years later before that tree throws off the shade for you to rest in. But it’s going to keep giving from the time you plant it to the time you harvest it.”
But for that gratification to continue, the forestry industry must invest in the future of its workforce.
“You’ve got to feed the industry; you can’t get complacent [and] just think this is going to be here forever, because it could go away,” Dunn said. “We’ve seen industries come and go. Georgia used to have a very strong textile indus- try, and we don’t now. We still grow the fiber, but we don’t process it; we don’t
sew it. I don’t think any of us ever want to see the forest industry follow that type of fate.”
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