Timber Forrest
County's Number One Crop
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Forrest County Forestry Facts
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Total Acreage
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Forest Type
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Forest Ownership
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Source: Forest Statistics for
Mississippi Counties - 1994
USDA - Forest Service
Forest Economics
Dollars and Sense For
Forrest County
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Value of Agriculture
Crops - 1999
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Value of Timber
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Increase Forestry Income for
Yourself and for Forrest 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
400 Forrest Street, Suite 200
Hattiesburg, MS 39401-3477
Phone: (601) 545-6083
County Forester
Mississippi Forestry Commission
477 South Gate Road
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
Phone: (601) 583-4240
Prepared by Tim Traugott, Extension Forestry Specialist
Publication 2074
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)
Copyright by Mississippi State University. All rights
reserved.
This document may
be copied and distributed for nonprofit educational purposes provided
that credit is given to the Mississippi State University Extension Service.
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