
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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Leadership

Clay Altizer
Southwide Region Manager
34 Duffy Street
Clayton, NC 27527
Ph: (662) 312-7934
Upcoming Meetings:
FRA 2023 Southcentral Region Steering Committee Meeting / Forest Products Security Group Meeting
November 7-9
Starkville, MS
FRA 2023 Timber Harvesting & Procurement Short Course
December 11-14
Auburn University
States in this Region
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Florida Panhandle
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Western Tennessee
Resources
23-R-30 Forestry Stream Crossings Assessed for Effectiveness in Preventing Soil Erosion in North Carolina
23-R-21 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Monitoring Forestry Best Management Practices in the Coastal Plain of the Southeastern U.S.
23-R-12 The Be Pro Be Proud Mobile Workshop
23-R-03 Forestry Field Day Inspires Youth in Mississippi
23-R-02 Log Truck Driver Compensation Lags That of General Freight Drivers Over the Last Decade
23-R-01 MSU Extension Service Arbor Day Program Helps Promote Forestry to Third Graders in North Mississippi
23-S-10 Slip During Debris Removal Injures Feller Buncher Operator
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23-S-08 Discharged Board Fractures Lumber Grader’s Eye Socket
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23-S-07 Truck Driver Injured by Improperly Secured Load
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23-S-06 Motor Grader Operator Injured While Replacing Cutting Blades
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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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Oklahoma
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Oklahoma
Southcentral
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in the Southcentral
Mississippi
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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
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