The Thomasville Public Library is the recipient of the book: Owning and Managing Forests by Thom J. McEvoy. The book was donated by the Alabama Forest Owners' Association Educational Fund through a grant from the Alabama Forests Forever Foundation in an attempt to provide sound forest management information to current and future landowners in Clarke County.

Owning and Managing Forests is both an accessible overview of the privileges, rights and obligations that accompany forest ownership and a guidebook to help active forest owners and managers use laws to their advantage and avoid the pitfalls of expensive and exhausting litigation. McEvoy provides chapters on the rights of private property, acquiring and owning forest lands, surveys and boundaries, managing and using forest land, forest-management contracts, ethics in forestry practice, forest taxation, planning for woodlands in estates and dispute settlements.

The Alabama Forest Owners' Association (AFOA) is a nonprofit association dedicated to providing management and ownership assistance to current and future owners of the 23 million acres of forested land in Alabama. More than 6,000 members participate in a wide variety of association activities throughout the state. To learn more about the association or about events of interest to forest owners, call AFOA at (205) 987- 8811 or visit AFOA's Web site at http://www.afoa.org.