Georgia Gov. Kemp Honors CatchMark as 2022 Forestry for Wildlife Partner

ATLANTA, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp honored Atlanta-based CatchMark Timber Belief, Inc. (NYSE: CTT) earlier this month as a 2022 accomplice within the state’s Forestry for Wildlife Partnership, a program administered by the Georgia Division of Pure Assets’ Wildlife Assets Division (DNR). Gov. Kemp acknowledged CatchMark for its “stewardship and land administration practices benefiting wildlife throughout Georgia.” See press launch from the Georgia Division of Pure Assets right here.

Administered by the Georgia Division of Pure Assets’ Wildlife Assets Division, the Forestry for Wildlife Partnership is a voluntary program that has promoted sustainable forest and wildlife conservation in forestry practices for 25 years. Accomplice tasks deal with making enhancements that sync with Georgia’s Bobwhite Quail Initiative and State Wildlife Motion Plan, two statewide methods.

In fiscal 2021, CatchMark undertook the next initiatives acknowledged by Georgia’s Division of Pure Assets:

• Carried out timber work aimed toward returning endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers to Sprewell Bluff Wildlife Administration Space close to Thomaston.
• Supported an present conservation easement on its Townsend property, defending pure areas within the easement and making the tract accessible for recreation and analysis inside the 4,000-acre Townsend Wildlife Administration Space.
• Continued to grant DNR entry to timberland in Lengthy, Brantley and McIntosh counties for annual surveys of swallow-tailed kite nests.
• Left pure longleaf stands at a focused basal space, thinned about 400 acres of loblolly pine to make approach for including cavity nest bins, and after hitting harvest and different targets, will flip the remaining timber over to DNR to complete the transition.
• Continued to cooperate with the Georgia-Alabama Land Belief in sustaining a conservation easement in Lengthy County. This easement protects high-priority habitats recognized by Georgia’s State Wildlife Motion Plan and maintains open areas adjoining to Fort Stewart as a part of the Military Appropriate Use Buffer Program.
• Labored with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to guard habitat for endangered fringed campion on firm websites in Talbot County, and with DNR and different botanists by allowing surveys for the plant to establish and confirm present or probably new websites.
• Continued work with DNR involving fowl surveys on lands with completely different website preparation prescriptions to find out potential results of various therapies on birds’ use of the areas.
• Practiced silvicultural therapies that promote conservation of gopher tortoises and their habitat.
• Sponsored and held looking occasions with youth teams and organizations for the disabled to supply alternatives for these teams to find out about looking and benefit from the open air.
• Allowed universities entry to firm lands for analysis, reminiscent of Virginia Tech’s pine development research. CatchMark can also be a member the College of Georgia’s Plantation Analysis Administration Cooperative and helps develop foresters by letting Auburn College conduct coaching and lessons by way of area journeys on the corporate’s timberlands.
• Continued an built-in harvest planning system that considers landscape-level range. One instance is powerful thinning of pine plantations that improves wildlife habitat and forest well being.
• Monitored and handled firm lands for invasive species.
• Continued recording and managing identified populations of Georgia’s uncommon and threatened species in accordance with state and federal tips.
• Maintained and supplied the usage of transportable skid and truck bridges for logger’s use to reduce stream crossing influence.

With possession pursuits in roughly 231,200 acres throughout Georgia (as of three/31/2022), CatchMark has been part of the Wildlife Partnership since 2011. 

About CatchMark
CatchMark (NYSE: CTT) invests in prime timberlands situated within the nation’s main mill markets, in search of to seize the best worth per acre and to generate sustainable yields by way of disciplined administration and superior stewardship of its distinctive sources. Headquartered in Atlanta and centered solely on timberland possession and administration, CatchMark started operations in 2007 and owns pursuits in roughly 350,000 acres of timberlands situated within the U.S. South. For extra data go to www.catchmark.com.

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