Calhoun County is rolling hill country in north Mississippi. The hills are capped with fine silty soil that washes easily. The Skuna River crosses the county, and its bottom is wide and flat.
Southeast Forestlands works only for the landowner. We do not buy timber and we are not paid by mills.
Soil That Moves When It Is Bare
The topsoil here is fine and light. It holds a bank while roots and litter cover it. Strip that cover and a hard rain will carry it off.
Keep skid trails few and keep them off the steepest pitches. Seed and water-bar them when the job ends. A gully takes land out of production and keeps cutting every rain. Closing trails out while the crew is there is part of the job, not an extra.
Ridges Work, Bottoms Wait
Ridge tops and side slopes stay firm enough to work through much of the year. The river bottom stays soft long after the hills have dried.
Sell those parts as separate pieces of work. That way a wet month slows one part of the job instead of stopping all of it.
Pine Above, Hardwood Below
Planted pine does well on the uplands. The flat bottom ground holds hardwood, and hardwood is usually what belongs there.
The two go to different buyers, and hardwood is graded log by log. Cruise them apart so each is described on its own terms before you agree to anything.
Timing a Thinning
Stand thickness and tree size decide when to thin. A crowded stand puts on less wood every year it waits.
Thinning also opens the stand up so the trees you keep grow into better logs. Have it looked at before you pick a date.
Nothing Beats Walking It
Every tract has a soft crossing, a bad corner, or a line nobody is sure about.
Those things decide how a job has to be run. Find them on foot before anything is offered. A tract that looks simple from the road often is not once you get in behind it.
Nearby Counties
We also work with landowners in nearby counties, including Yalobusha, Grenada, Webster, Chickasaw, and Lafayette.
General Guidance
How the work itself is done is explained once, site-wide, rather than repeated county by county:
- What a timber cruise measures
- How a sealed-bid timber sale works
- How we sell timber
- Wet-weather logging and BMPs
- Thinning decisions
- Regeneration and replanting
- All forestry services
Talk It Over First
Walk the place with a forester before deciding anything. Contact us to set up a visit.