{"id":5989,"date":"2016-02-04T16:42:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2016-02-04T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:42:52","slug":"georgia-tech-report-forestry-makes-money-for-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/georgia-tech-report-forestry-makes-money-for-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Tech Report: Forestry Makes Money For State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Southernloggintimes.com<\/em> posted an article\u00a0today from the Georgia Forestry Commission\u00a0that Georgia Tech has put out a new report about logging in Georgia which shows how valuable forestry is to the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, &#8220;Employees working in forestry earned more in wages and salaries in 2014 than people in any other Georgia manufacturing industry&#8230;.Georgia\u2019s 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southernloggintimesmagazine.com\/georgia-tech-report-forestry-makes-money-for-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.southernloggintimesmagazine.com\/georgia-tech-report-forestry-makes-money-for-state\/<\/a>\u00a0or directly <a href=\"https:\/\/gatrees.org\/resources\/media\/news\/1-6-16%20GEORGIA'S%20FORESTRY%20INDUSTRY%20RECORDS%20CONTINUED%20GROWTH%20IN%202014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The full report is available <a href=\"https:\/\/gatrees.org\/utilization\/economic-impacts\/2014%20Forestry%20Impact%20Report%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/econ-ben-of-forestry-2014.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5990\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5990\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/econ-ben-of-forestry-2014-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"econ ben of forestry 2014\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/econ-ben-of-forestry-2014-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/econ-ben-of-forestry-2014-113x138.jpg 113w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/econ-ben-of-forestry-2014.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southernloggintimes.com posted an article\u00a0today from the Georgia Forestry Commission\u00a0that 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, &#8220;Employees working in forestry earned more in wages and salaries in 2014 than people in any other Georgia manufacturing industry&#8230;.Georgia\u2019s forest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forestry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5991,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/5991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}