Georgia lawmakers are seeking to strengthen the state’s powerful forestry industry long term as well as provide relief to timberland owners who suffered losses from Hurricane Helene last September.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Georgia is the top timber-producing state in the country. Georgia has more total timberland acreage and privately owned timberland acreage than any other state in ...

TREUTLEN COUNTY, Ga. — Hurricane Helene has left a path of destruction through Georgia's forests, causing an estimated $1.28 billion in damages to the state's timber industry, officials reported ...

ATLANTA — In response to the widespread devastation of Hurricane Helene to Georgia’s farming and timber industries, several state senators filed legislation to provide relief to those impacted by the ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Across Georgia, the State Department of Natural Resources has closed the state’s salt waters for oyster harvesting. Georgia’s coastal waters just closed at 6:00 a.m. Sunday ...