In 1981, Chuck Leavell and his wife inherited Georgia land; decades later, Charlane grown into a 4,000-acre estate with 70% forest cover

• PC: US Fish and Wildlife ServiceFor Chuck Leavell, the road to becoming a Georgia tree farmer began with land that came to his wife’s family in 1981.
• At the time, Leavell was already building the music career that would take him from the Allman Brothers Band to decades of work with the Rolling Stones.
• The inherited property was farmland, not a ready-made forestry operation.