Lowndes County is in northeast Mississippi where the prairie meets the hills. Columbus sits on the Tombigbee. There is less forest here than in most counties around it, and both pine and hardwood are common.
Southeast Forestlands works only for the landowner. We do not buy timber and we are not paid by mills.
Three Kinds of Ground Inside One Boundary
One tract here can hold heavy prairie clay, sandier ground, and river bottom. The clay sets the schedule. It can be firm in September and unable to carry a loaded truck in February.
The sandier ground beside it works most of the year. The bottoms along the Tombigbee and its creeks flood and stay wet.
Hardwood Changes How the Sale Is Handled
Upland oak, mixed oak and pine, and bottomland hardwood are all found here. Hardwood is graded log by log on quality, so it does not sell the way planted pine does.
A pine only cruise never records that grading. Ask for the hardwood to be measured, described, and offered apart from anything planted on the uplands.
Crossings, Access, and What to Confirm
On flat ground the buffer width along a creek is rarely the hard part. The crossings are. Where clay comes down to a creek, the number of crossings and where they sit can decide whether a wet week costs a day or a month.
One acre in three here is mapped as bottom that floods from time to time. Find out which acres those are before setting a harvest date.
Find them before the timber is offered. Then check the way in, confirm the lines, and have the timber looked at so the pine and the hardwood are each described for what they are.
Nearby Counties
We also work with landowners in nearby counties, including Clay, Oktibbeha, Noxubee, Monroe, and Pickens (AL).
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.