Mississippi Business Journal » Mississippi Institute for Forest Inventory http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Decimated logging industry clings to hope of housing rebound http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/05/29/decimated-logging-industry-clings-to-hope-of-housing-rebound/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=decimated-logging-industry-clings-to-hope-of-housing-rebound http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/05/29/decimated-logging-industry-clings-to-hope-of-housing-rebound/#comments Sun, 29 May 2011 08:00:40 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=41836 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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