Forestry News

A stand of pine trees

Do I need to pay the net investment income tax on my timber income?

The short answer is: It depends. The slightly longer answer is that it is determined by the classification of your timber holding, the way to sell the timber and your modified adjusted gross income for the net investment income tax purposes.     What is the net investment income tax? The…
A detail of a Hawthorne tree's flowers

Hiding in plain sight: Georgia's native hawthorn trees

Let’s play a tree game. How many of Georgia’s native trees can you identify? There are more than 260 native trees from the mountains to the sea in Georgia. The second-most numerous genera group among Georgia’s native trees is Crataegus—hawthorns. How many hawthorns can you find and identify? They…
Joe Dahlen inserts a board into a device to measure its strength

Associate professor seeks to better understand the wood trees produce

Not all wood is created equal. We know this by looking at the grain on a piece of cut timber. But what’s going on inside the wood to make it that way—and how do you measure that at such a scale that captures the variability of what’s being grown? This is what Joe Dahlen’s lab at the University of…
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Tree experts connect over urban forests

We know a good bit about forests, and the factors that make a healthy one. But what about the trees that live across an urban landscape?   This was the general question posed at a recent meeting of tree experts on the University of Georgia campus. Researchers from around the world gathered to…
Logs sit on a logging truck

New research helps forest industry integrate technology into business management

Technology has found its way into almost every aspect of industry—it can decrease costs, increase efficiencies and even allow a birds-eye view of the entire operation. While these advances have also had a profound effect on forestry and the forest products industry, many forest business owners have…

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