Starting Time: 00:00
Hayes D. Brown, attorney and forest owner, will moderate this news conference.
Hayes’ email address is hbrown@afoa.org.
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Starting Time: 01:00
Jeremy Kissinger is a Senior Business Intelligence Consultant with ResourceWise, where he works with clients on forest products markets and timber supply and demand. As China continues to expand its pulp mill capacity, changes in global pulp production and trade are having an impact on U.S. markets and creating new challenges for the forest products industry. Jeremy joins us to take a closer look at what is happening in China, how those changes are affecting U.S. pulp and timber markets, and what forest owners should know as these market dynamics continue to unfold.
Starting Time: 06:22
Craig Hall is the revenue manager for the Property Tax Division of the Alabama Department of Revenue. A new law now limits annual increases in the taxable assessed value of eligible Class II and Class III real property to 7 percent, a change that can have important implications for Alabama landowners. Craig joins us to explain how the cap works, which properties qualify, what circumstances can cause a property to lose the cap, and what forest landowners should know when reviewing their property tax assessments.
Starting Time: 13:33
Kelvin Daniels is the Drone Coordinator with the Alabama Forestry Commission, where he has spent the past decade using unmanned aerial systems, more commonly known as drones, to capture aerial imagery and video of Alabama’s forests. As drone technology continues to become a valuable tool for viewing and documenting forestland, it is opening new possibilities for how landowners and forestry professionals assess and manage their property. Kelvin joins us to talk about how the Alabama Forestry Commission is using drones, what these aerial tools can reveal from above, and why this technology could be useful to forest landowners.
Starting Time: 19:11
Ernie Spiller is a landowner enrollment specialist with Funga, a company focused on restoring health soil ecosystems in forests. While forest productivity is often measured by what happens above ground, what happens beneath the surface can play an important role in how trees grow and withstand stress. Ernie joins us to talk about the relationship between soil health and tree productivity, the role that naturally occurring soil fungi can play in supporting health forests, and what landowners should know about the potential benefits of paying more attention to what’s happening beneath their trees
