Private Lands
The
Mississippi Forestry Commission provides technical and financial
assistance to private non-industrial forest landowners (NIPF) in
Mississippi. Of the State’s 19.79 million acres of forestlands, 77
percent, or more than 13 million
acres, belongs to an estimated 350,000 NIPF owners with parcels of 10
acres or greater.
Most
technical assistance and forestry advice is free to the landowner. Direct
services, such as listed below are available for a fee. Contact your local
Mississippi Forestry Commission Office for requested services.
Direct
Services available for a fee: timber marketing, survival checks, Southern Pine Beetle
suppression activities, tree planting, BMP audit team participation and
training, prescribed burning, reforestation tax credit management plan,
site preparation, SMZ establishment, compliance checks, GIS/GPS mapping
and acreage verification, fire lane/firebreak establishment and/or
maintenance, road/skid trail/loading dock maintenance, vegetation
management, aerial photography and equipment rental.
The Mississippi Forestry Commission provides a state directory
of wood-using industries, which is seed to locate new markets and sources
of unfinished to finished products.
Pulp-Paper-Solid Wood Manufacturing Facilities in Mississippi.
A
list of professional forestry consultants as well as private forestry
vendors, timber buyers and loggers is available from local Mississippi
Forestry Commission offices.
For
more information on This program, contact your
local MFC Office.
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