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NEW IN THE EVENTS
CALENDAR
Mobile County Landowners
Association - Mobile County
GIS Workshop - Tallahassee,
Florida
Longleaf Pine Forest
Restoration & Management Workshop - Chipley, Florida
Managing the Family Forest -
Lucedale, Mississippi
ntro to ArcGIS 10 for
Foresters - Mayhew, Mississippi
Introduction to GPS using SOLO
Forest - Mayhew, Mississippi
Quality Deer Management Association National Convention
- Athens, Georgia
Outdoor Alabama Photography
Exhibit - Baldwin County
Chainsaw Safety -
Baldwin County
Dallas County
Clarke County
Managing White-Tailed
Deer -
Southaven, Mississippi
Raymond, Mississippi
Tree Identification Workshop -
Ashland, Mississippi
Are My Pines Ready To Thin? -
Houston, Mississippi
Foundations of
Successful Transition - Webinar
How To Make More Money
Growing Trees - Leesville, South Carolina
Georgia Forestry
Association (GFA) Annual Conference & Forestry Expo -
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Teacher’s Conservation
Workshop for Teachers of All Grades - Lee County
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2014 AFOA Annual Meeting
Visit
this link
for the most up-to-date information and registration
forms on the 2014 AFOA Annual Meeting.
AFOA would
like to thank the exhibitors and sponsors for providing
needed services to forest owners and for helping to keep
the cost of the annual meeting affordable for attendees.
Exhibitors
Sponsors
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DID YOU KNOW...
You can see
our most recent AFOA Facebook page posts below in
the AFOA Facebook page box. These include: recently
posted forestland for sale, hunting land for lease,
forest facts, pictures from AFOA events, and more. You
can go also go directly to the AFOA Facebook page by
clicking the 'Find Us On Facebook' badge to the left.
AFOA is now
on Twitter. Use the
icon on the left border to
navigate to the AFOA Twitter page. You must have or open
a Twitter account to 'follow' AFOA, but anyone can view
our most recent 'tweets' in the
Twitter box in the right hand column of this page or all past 'tweets' at this address:
https://twitter.com/#!/AFOAinc
Check out
AFOA's Online Video Meetings page. We now have a
page listing meetings/presentations that we have video
of available online.
Visit this link
to see what meetings/presentations are available. We
hope to increase the number of meetings available for
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Forest Facts
OF THE 32 MILLION ACRES of total land
area in Alabama, 23 million acres are forested. Forests
comprise 71% of the land area in Alabama.
Source: U.S.D.A., Economic Research
Service. Alabama Forest Facts: Compiled by Forisk
Consulting.
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2014 AFOA Annual Meeting
Lake Guntersville State Park,
Guntersville, AL
Forest landowners
will gather for a variety of activities, including
touring a wood pellet fuel mill, participating in a
forest and wildlife management field day, learning the
names of local trees and shrubs, observing bald eagles
with a park naturalist, and attending a forest mapping
class using the latest Global Positioning System (GPS)
and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology.
These are just a few of the planned activities. For more
details click here.
Entrance to Landowner
Forestry Field Day
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The Monthly Newsletter
CAPITAL IDEAS covers upcoming
forestry events in and around Alabama; stumpage
values, forestry stocks, and lumber prices; a
monthly Washington Report, semi-annual Tax Tips
and Forest Law Update; available
services and supplies; and news and views about
forests and forest ownership.
Association Membership: $15 per year.
Click
here for application.(pdf)
Use this link for a current Membership
Application.
Click here for sample issue
of Capital Ideas
This is a sample only. (January 2010 issue) |
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AFOA
members need to be able to find businesses that
focus on
forestland owners and users. Are you taking advantage of AFOA's
website?
Find out how...
Are you or your company on
AFOA's lists? Use the following Vendor Forms to do so:
Site Prep and Tree Planting -
Do you or your company perform these services?
Forestry Consultants -
Do you or your company receive referrals from AFOA?
Timber Buyer -
Do you or your company buy timber?
Rural Real Estate
Agents - Do you or your company sell rural
forestland?
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