Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The darker orange colored parts of the Chattahoochee National Forest, pictured above, are the protected roadless areas, accounting ...

Few states in the eastern U.S. are home to more national forestry lands than Georgia. North Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest district spans 750,000 acres in portions of 18 counties. It is home ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Jim Justice (R-WV), and Steve Daines (R-MT) have introduced the bipartisan Forest Bioeconomy Act. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - OCTOBER 05: In this aerial view, Joel Chacon uses a chainsaw to cut up a tree that lays on top of a shed as the ...

In the forests of the southeastern United States, dense tree cover dominates most landscapes. That's why the Appalachian Trail is sometimes nicknamed "The Green Tunnel." But avid hikers know that ...

A Georgia farm prepares new tree plantings through the Fields & Forests project, funded in part by Netflix’s carbon credit investment. American Forest Foundation Netflix is infusing cash into ...

Roughly 63,000 acres of Georgia forest are federally protected from roadbuilding and commercial logging, but the U.S. Forest Service is moving to roll back those safeguards, it announced late last ...

Georgia is getting creative to help people hurt by Hurricane Helene in an effort to rebuild forested areas. A new Georgia-specific forest carbon exchange initiative was announced at the beginning of ...

The darker orange colored parts of the Chattahoochee National Forest, pictured above, are the protected roadless areas, accounting for only 4% of the forest. USDA Roughly 63,000 acres of Georgia ...