Decimated logging industry clings to hope of housing rebound
by Clay Chandler
Published: May 29,2011
Tags: KIOR, logging industry, Mississippi, Mississippi Institute for Forest Inventory, timber, Timber Plus, Van Hendry
Since the mid-1990s, Mississippi’s logging industry has been sawed to a fraction of what it was. Perhaps no better illustration of that comes in the latest employment figures for the industry included in a report by the Mississippi Institute for Forest Inventory. In 1996, the industry employed 125,000 people, according to the report. By 2008, [...]
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