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Holiday Letter from Black Belt Treasures

Alabama Forestry Team

As part of the Alabama Forestry Team, UCED has worked with 28 rural counties to stimulate forest industry projects, working with existing industry, economic developers and elected officials. The focus of the AREAP Forestry Team projects is to the increase sales, create jobs, expand the use of productive technologies, reach new markets overseas, improve utilization of wood resources, and improve the use of forests for tourism, biomass opportunities, and carbon sequestration.