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Name: Southern Group of State Foresters
Date Published: 2007
Brief Description: The Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF) is a non-profit organization consisting of State Foresters from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, CommonWealth of Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.
It also includes ex-officio members - the SGSF Executive Director, the Regional Forester for the Southern Region, Deputy Regional Forester for State and Private Forestry for the Southern Region, the Director of the Southern Research Station, and the Director of the International Institute of Tropical Forestry of the USDA Forest Service. An Executive Committee governs the SGSF.
Complete Description: Our mission is to provide leadership in sustaining the economic, environmental, and social benefits of the South's forests. We work together to identify and address existing and emerging issues and challenges that are important to Southern forests and citizens.
Our goal is to provide healthy forests for today and tomorrow. A healthy forest provides clean water, clean air, healthy habitats for wildlife, great recreation opportunities, and the forest products we needwood for our homes, paper for the books used to educate our children, and so much more.
Our members share and promote forest management practices for responsibly managing forests.
These practices include planting trees, thinning forests to reduce the risk of destructive wildfires, monitoring and combating diseases and insects, improving water quality, and supporting economies in Southern communities.
On a community level, we help make cities and communit ies more livable by teaching residents a bout the power of trees in their backyards, and by promoting fire protection so they know how to protect both their homes and fo rests from wildfires.We train and equip rural fire departments, assist communities and private forest landowners during hurricanes, tornadoes and other disasters, and help private land owners develop and implement forest management plans. For decades, The Southern Group of State Foresters(SGSF) has informed legislators about the benefits of forestry. We have testified before Congress regarding the need for forest tax incentives and backed legislation aimed at helping private forest landowners manage their forestlands.
Webpage URL
http://www.southernforests.org/default.aspx
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| Resource Name: | Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment Project -- Final Report
Fire in the South
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