[taxesareforever]

Such a shame. If they only would have let it be cut sooner.

[Yosemitest]

I agree about the timber along the Natchez Trace, but most of the timber that was blown down, belongs to private individuals, with only 20 to 100 acres of land, and a lot of the timber is on land that isn't very useful for anything else. It's either very swampy, very hilly, or very hard to get to.

And the big, timber around the little towns and cities, is either too large to cut for lumber, or in danger of having some metal inside of it. Some of the pecan orchards I saw that were torn apart, driving up highway 45 from Mobile to Meridian, would make excellent furniture, but most of it will be piled up and burned where it lays, or maybe used for fire wood this winter.

[Yosemitest]

An update on timber prices...

My father tells me that as of today pine logs were selling for $16.00 to $14.00 a ton and they are watching the logs for "blueing" to cull them to pulp wood at a much cheaper price.

If you're not careful, a load of logs will bring less than the cost of the fuel to harvest and deliver it cost.