Timber — Claiborne County's Number One Crop
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Claiborne County Forestry Facts
Total Acreage |
Forest Type |
Forest Ownership |
Source: Forest Statistics for
Mississippi Counties - 1994
USDA - Forest Service
Forest Economics
Dollars and Sense For Claiborne County
Value of Agriculture Crops - 1999
|
Value of Timber |
Increase Forestry Income for Yourself and for Claiborne County!
- Get involved in a County Forestry Association to learn more about forestry.
- Use the advice and services of a professional forester.
- Have a forest-management plan prepared for your land. The plan should tell you what you have, what you need to do, and when you need to do it.
- Reforest all of your idle or cut-over forestlands.
- Manage your forests as you would any other agricultural crop.
- Use good marketing techniques when you sell timber.
- Become familiar with timber tax laws.
- Be an active manager of your forestland.
Benefits from Managing Your Forestland
- You will make more money.
- Your land value will increase as a managed timber stand grows.
- Trees grow tax-deferred as they increase in volume and value.
- Good forest management is also good wildlife management.
- Managed forests will provide a better local forest market, industry, and jobs.
Consequences of NOT Managing Your Forestland
- You will lose money.
- You must pay land taxes whether the acres are idle or productive.
- Unmanaged forestland usually results in understocked and often less desirable timber species.
- An unmanaged forest decreases potential land value.
- You will lose future harvest revenues.
For more information on how to manage your forestland, contact the following agencies:
County Extension
Agent
Mississippi State University Extension Service
P.O. Box 529
Port Gibson, MS 39150
Phone: (601) 437-5011
County Forester
Mississippi Forestry Commission
P.O. Box 663
Port Gibson, MS 39150
Phone: (601) 437-8009
Prepared by Tim
Traugott, Extension Forestry Specialist
Publication 2047
Extension Service of Mississippi State University, cooperating with U.S. Department of Agriculture. Published
in furtherance of Acts of Congress, May 8 and June 30, 1914. Joe H. McGilberry,
Interim Director
(rev-500-12-01)
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