May 30, 2018 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service announced early signs indicating national forest lands will face a second consecutive year of a severe southern pine beetle outbreak threatening to damage tens of thousands of acres of pine forests in Mississippi. Forest Service scientists...
Apr 23, 2018 | News, News/PR
A team of five brave men with the Mississippi Forestry Commission is headed to Oklahoma to help battle a fire that’s consumed over 570 square miles of land. “It would be, you know, Rankin County on fire. Not just 100 acres on fire, but the whole...
Oct 16, 2017 | News, News/PR
In the past two years, Mississippi’s drought levels have been about on par with California’s. So, before the Forestry Commission sends any firefighters to help out West, they’re making sure everyone’s safe here at home. “Mississippi has a...
Sep 25, 2017 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has announced that federal and state forest management officials signed a Good Neighbor Authority agreement, a tool to improve forest health, including efforts to suppress the unprecedented southern pine beetle epidemic that includes nearly...
Aug 21, 2017 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service announced Tuesday that it is seeking to contract saw crews to fell trees as part of the efforts to control or stop Southern pine beetle infestations that threaten tens of thousands of acres of pine forests in four national forests in...