Registration for the Florida
Timber Recovery Block Grant Program and the Florida
Irrigation Recovery Block Grant Program is now available to
agricultural producers and forest landowners who suffered damage from
Hurricane Michael.
Timber is the leading industry in the
Florida Panhandle, and suffered a $1.3 billion dollar economic hit
from Hurricane Michael.
An estimated 550 million trees were
damaged or destroyed.
The federal money will allow Florida
Forest Service personnel to work with timber producers to verify
their timber loss and help landowners with documentation of loss.
The money will also help producers
repair and replace irrigation infrastructure damaged by the
storm.
To be eligible for the Florida Timber
Recovery Program, a producer must be the owner or the lessee who has
rights to the timber crop of a minimum of 10 contiguous acres of
nonindustrial private forest land located in one of the counties hit
by Hurricane Michael.
That includes Franklin, Gulf, Liberty,
and Wakulla, counties.
To be eligible for the Florida
Irrigation Recovery Block Grant Program, a producer must be the owner
of center pivot irrigation infrastructure and document that the crop
growing under the center pivot as of October 10, 2018, sustained a
minimum 15 percent crop loss due to Hurricane Michael
To learn more and register for the
programs go to floridadisaster.org
The deadline to register for these
programs is Friday, November 20.
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