Greene County is in the southeast corner of Mississippi. Pine covers the sandy high ground. Hardwood fills the bottoms, and those bottoms flood when the Chickasawhay River comes up.
Southeast Forestlands works only for the landowner. We do not buy timber and we are not paid by mills.
Two Kinds of Ground on One Place
The sandy high ground drains well and holds a road most of the year. The bottoms are another matter. They stay damp, and they flood.
A lot of tracts hold some of each. The upland may be ready to work in March while the bottom is not.
Timing the Work
Plan the wet part of a tract for dry months. A dry fall is worth waiting for. Wet ground tears up under loaded trucks, and the ruts stay for years.
Put a rain shutdown in writing before a crew ever shows up. It protects the land and keeps the schedule honest.
Pine and Hardwood Are Not One Sale
Planted pine, older natural pine, and bottom hardwood are three products with three sets of buyers.
They need to be cruised by type. Offered as one lump, none of them is described properly.
Getting In and Out
Check the way in before the timber is offered. A soft entrance can hold up the whole job after one wet week.
Know where the lines are, too. Bottom lines are the easiest ones to lose track of.
After the Harvest
Replant by the ground, not by the acres on the deed. Pine belongs on the sandy high ground, where it grows fast.
Low, wet spots are normally kept in hardwood. Whether they restock without planting depends on the seed trees and young stems already standing, so walk them first.
Why the Tract Comes First
A county description is only a starting point. Your acres, your access, and your timber decide what should happen and when.
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.