The folks I worked with in the south relied a lot on local volunteers in conjunction with state DNR in Arkansas and Georgia. Lately they’ve been hard pressed to fill positions in local volunteer agencies! The resources at the state level in Texas seemed well personed and funded in comparison. I think Rusty was being modest about the resources in his state though. Georgia seems to push longleaf pine for their private CRP program for non industry private owners. That species requires one or more Rx burns before they are free to grow and I think the state folks do that for them. I met many of them after the Okefenokee burned….twice! They were battle hardened by then.
BTW I was following the “blue mountain”? News and learned things were getting buttoned up there in Pa. Glad it wasn’t worse!