Source:Rhonda Garrison, SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 7/28/16

While oftentimes considered an undesirable tree in the native landscape, work is being done on a sweetgum hybrid tree to supply the paper and pulp industries in the southeast.  Scott Merkle, professor and associate dean of Research at the Warnell School of forestry at the University of Georgia in Athens explains the project:

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