Sep 14, 2018 | News, News/PR
The newest timber harvesting and production equipment will be booming at the biennial Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show in Starkville on September 21-22. The show, which is the longest-running, live, in-woods demonstration of forestry equipment in the nation, is in...
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...
Jan 12, 2018 | News, News/PR
Despite a slow housing market and other lingering effects of the recession, Mississippi’s forests remain the state’s second most valuable agricultural commodity for 2017. John Auel, an assistant Extension professor of forestry at Mississippi State University,...
Dec 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
Imagine a lumberjack, an ax slung across one shoulder and a chain saw in the other hand. While the image is endearing, that was your father’s or grandfather’s logger. “We don’t even have a chain-saw on any of our crews. Not an ax either. The...
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...