
Southcentral
FRA’s Southcentral Region serves FRA members throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, the Florida Panhandle, and Western Tennessee. It focuses on improving timber harvesting and transportation safety, efficiency, and environmental performance. Trucking safety and logging and trucking labor challenges are current issues of concern. The Southcentral Region has a spring and fall meeting each year.

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Employee Crushes Finger in Feller-Buncher Door
Background On an overcast winter day in the Southcentral Region, a...
Leadership

Clay Altizer
Southwide Region Manager
34 Duffy Street
Clayton, NC 27527
Ph: (662) 312-7934
States in this Region
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Florida Panhandle
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Western Tennessee
Resources
22-R-37-Women in the Woods
22-R-36-Forestry and Inflation- Friends or Foes?
22-R-35-North Carolina Logging Cost Analysis Workshop
22-R-21 EGGER Apprenticeship Program Helps to Launch Career Path for Young Professionals
Mass Timber Noise Barrier for Highways
Firefighter in a Tube
22-S-17-Log Truck Driver Injured During Crash While Not Wearing a Seatbelt
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22-S-16-Driver Injured While Failing to Maintain a Safe Following Distance
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22-S-12 Employee Injures Foot During Trailer Exchange
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22-S-11 Driver Injured by Side Mirror Impact with Oncoming Truck
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22-S-10 Collision with Train Injures Log Truck Driver
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Distracted Log Truck Driver Dies After Tree-Length Load Crushes Cab During Rollover
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Oklahoma
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Oklahoma
Southcentral
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in the Southcentral
Mississippi
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Mississippi Mississippi has 19.4 million…
Louisiana
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Louisiana Louisiana has 15.0 million…
Kansas
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Kansas Kansas has 2.5 million…
Tennessee
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Tennessee
Southern Loggers Cooperative, 2004-2019
Forest Industry 2021: Supply and Demand in the South
Extreme Weather Impacts on Forest Operations in Texas
Differences in PNW and US South Timber Procurement
Safety and Efficiency of State-Legal Log Trucks on Interstate Highways in Eight Wood Baskets in the US South
2020 FBM Keynote Speaker Session

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