Most states provide public technical assistance to help private landowners manage their
forests. This article summarizes the results of a case study evaluating the public forestry
assistance program in Georgia. Forest harvesting practices made by private landowners
who received public forestry assistance were compared with those who did not receive any
assistance when making a timber sale and harvest. Assisted landowners generally had
greater returns from harvests, which could be imputed to yield large private, social, and
program benefit cost ratios.
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