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NCFS Summary of Accomplishments in Orange County <br />Cost Share Assistance <br />The N.C. Forest Service offers assistance in forest management through managing <br />cost share assistance in forest practices. The most common practice is of course <br />reforestation by way of planting trees in cutover areas or reforesting old fields. In <br />2014, The N.C.F.S. main program, the Forest Development Program (F.D.P.) <br />reimbursed landowners in Orange County with a total of $6,738 of cost share <br />assistance. The average cost of $75.00 per acre of reforestation is offset by the cost <br />share of $30.00 per acre or 40% of the total cost, allowing an additional 180 acres <br />to be planted in Orange County that otherwise may not have been planted as well <br />as an additional 41 acres of release. In 2015, an additional 697+ acres have been <br />approved for cost share assistance. <br />Tree Improvement and Nursery Program <br />The N.C. Forest Service owns and operates two nurseries that are involved in <br />growing and selling, at a minimum cost, genetically improved and area specific <br />seedlings to be planted by private and public landowners in North Carolina. In <br />2013, the Orange County office delivered and provided planting advice on an <br />additional 4,534 assorted conifers and 1,520 assorted hardwoods for a total of <br />6,054 individual trees planted from N.C.F.S. nurseries. This is in addition to the <br />499 acres of pine reforestation done under traditional forestry practices in 2014. <br />Through the combined efforts of the N.C. Forest Service and our cooperative <br />agencies, a grand total of over 225,000 trees were planted in Orange County in <br />2014! <br />Sotwrlor <br />r„ <br />u <br />1- -NC UE <br />u5 P; TV ''Mi n"3P <br />Call yore, nearest ANA i''oresi rvice 01141'c' <br />5 <br />If <br />Aq <br />K ce VVmuR�H MiWLA N1111, <br />1.4 %0 i rV RAT a "IM <br />1114, 0, MAIWWA <br />