Southernloggintimes.com posted an article today from the Georgia Forestry Commission that Georgia Tech has put out a new report about logging in Georgia which shows how valuable forestry is to the state.
According to the report, “Employees working in forestry earned more in wages and salaries in 2014 than people in any other Georgia manufacturing industry….Georgia’s forest industry ranked first in the state for compensation, with workers earning $3.03 billion, an increase of 3 percent from the previous year. The report said the forestry industry supported 48,740 jobs, ranking third among manufacturing sectors, behind the food processing and textile industries. That is a 1.2 percent increase from 2013, with the pulp and paper industry continuing to dominate all sectors within the industry. It was the fourth consecutive year of positive job growth.”
You can read the article at https://www.southernloggintimesmagazine.com/georgia-tech-report-forestry-makes-money-for-state/ or directly here. The full report is available here.
