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Learn More About Forestry with MSU Extension Forestry

MSU Extension Forestry offers educational programs, workshops, and publications to help landowners and forestry professionals in Mississippi. Get answers to your forestry questions and learn how to best manage your forest.

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Learn More About Forestry with MSU Extension Forestry

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  1. Learn More About Forestry with MSU Extension Forestry James E. Henderson, Ph.D.Associate Extension Professor Extension Forestry Coordinator Department of Forestry Mississippi State University jeh149@msstate.edu

  2. What is Extension? Each state has a land grant university system. Mississippi State is part of the land grant system and has the responsibility to extend research accomplished at the university to those in the state that can't come to the university.

  3. What is Extension? To bring the knowledge to you, MSU Extension has a network of county offices throughout Mississippi. Each county has Extension faculty and staff who serve local clientele with information on many topics: agriculture family and consumer sciences • economic and community resource development • 4-H/youth development

  4. Extension agents in every county Extension Foresters in each of the 4 regions Total of 8 Extension Faculty dedicated to forestry

  5. What is Extension? Extension Forestry faculty are part of the MSU Department of Forestry and serve forestry clientele in Mississippi by conducting forestry educational programs, writing publications answering questions from Extension agents, foresters, loggers, and landowners

  6. What can MSU Extension Forestry do for You? Find answers to your questions. Learn answers to questions you didn’t know you had. How do I get the best price for my timber? How can I minimize my tax liability on timber sales? Are my pines ready to thin? • When should I replant after a harvest? • Where can I find cost share support for replanting? • Should I invest more money for higher quality seedlings?

  7. What can MSU Extension Forestry do for You? Find answers to your questions Learn answers to questions you didn’t know you had. We cover every possible forestry subject Short courses and workshops Field days and County Forestry Association meetings Publications and extension.msstate.edu

  8. Short Courses - provide intensive training on specific subject areas. Each course typically meets on a one day and lasts 4 to 6 hours. Thirteen different short courses were offered in 2015.

  9. Short Courses - provide intensive training on specific subject areas. Each course typically meets on a one day and lasts 4 to 6 hours. Thirteen different short courses were offered in 2015. 1. Profitable Marketing and Harvesting of Timber 2. Forest Regeneration: An Investment in the Future 3. Managing the Family Forest in Mississippi 4. Having Your Timber and Wildlife Too 5. How to Manage Your Pine Plantation 6. Introduction to Hardwood Management 7. Improving Pine Forest Revenue Using Simple Improved Seedling Selection 8. Understanding Forest Management as an Investment 9. Forest Herbicides 10. Longleaf Pine Management 11. Income Taxes and the Family Forest 12. Management Succession “Ties to the Land” 13. Introduction to Biomass, Bioenergy, and Biofuels 14. Extreme Weather Events and Risk Management Options for Family Forests

  10. Workshops - more intensive, hands-on training in specific subjects. Allows landowners to actively participate extending the learning experience from the classroom to actual field activities. These workshops usually include a short (1 hour) indoor technical session and a longer (2-3 hour) field exercise. <insert photo tree id> <insert photo pine thinning>

  11. Workshops - more intensive, hands-on training in specific subjects. Allows landowners to actively participate extending the learning experience from the classroom to actual field activities. These workshops usually include a short (1 hour) indoor technical session and a longer (2-3 hour) field exercise. • Are My Pines Ready To Thin? • Management Plan Workshop • Hardwood Management • Ties to the Land (Intergenerational Land Transfer) • Tree Identification • Global Positioning Systems • Firewise Home

  12. County Forestry Association meetings and Field Days There are currently 65 County Forestry Associations (CFAs) involving 73 counties in Mississippi. Extension county agents, along with Forestry Extension faculty and staff, promote and support the CFA movement through various program and project activities. <insert photo CFA meeting> <insert photo field day>

  13. County Forestry Association meetings and Field Days There are currently 65 County Forestry Associations (CFAs) involving 73 counties in Mississippi. Extension county agents, along with Forestry Extension faculty and staff, promote and support the CFA movement through various program and project activities.

  14. Extension Forestry Publications

  15. extension.msstate.edu

  16. extension.msstate.edu/natural-resources/forestry

  17. extension.msstate.edu/natural-resources/forestry

  18. extension.msstate.edu/natural-resources/forestry

  19. extension.msstate.edu/publications

  20. What can MSU Extension Forestry do for You? Teach you what you need to know to get the most our of your forest. Find answers to your questions. We offer many educational programs to help you learn what you need to know. We are here to help you reach forest ownership goals.

  21. Questions? We have answers! James E. Henderson Associate Extension Professor Extension Forestry Coordinator Department of Forestry jeh149@msstate.edu

  22. Questions? We have answers! James E. Henderson Associate Extension Professor Extension Forestry Coordinator Department of Forestry jeh149@msstate.edu

  23. Where can you find technical assistance? State forester with the Mississippi Forestry Commission mfc.ms.gov Private consulting forester registered in Mississippi cfr.msstate.edu/borf/

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