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.

Southcentral Region Map

Featured Resource

Safety Alerts

Employee Crushes Finger in Feller-Buncher Door

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Leadership

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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

Technical Releases

23-R-03 Forestry Field Day Inspires Youth in Mississippi

Technical Releases

23-R-02 Log Truck Driver Compensation Lags That of General Freight Drivers Over the Last Decade

Technical Releases

23-R-01 MSU Extension Service Arbor Day Program Helps Promote Forestry to Third Graders in North Mississippi

Technical Releases

22-R-37-Women in the Woods

Technical Releases

22-R-36-Forestry and Inflation- Friends or Foes?

Technical Releases

22-R-35-North Carolina Logging Cost Analysis Workshop

Safety Alerts

22-S-17-Log Truck Driver Injured During Crash While Not Wearing a Seatbelt

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Safety Alerts

22-S-16-Driver Injured While Failing to Maintain a Safe Following Distance

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Safety Alerts

22-S-12 Employee Injures Foot During Trailer Exchange

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Safety Alerts

22-S-11 Driver Injured by Side Mirror Impact with Oncoming Truck

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Safety Alerts

22-S-10 Collision with Train Injures Log Truck Driver

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Safety Alerts

Distracted Log Truck Driver Dies After Tree-Length Load Crushes Cab During Rollover

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Carbon Reports

Oklahoma

Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Oklahoma

Carbon Reports

Southcentral

Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in the Southcentral

Carbon Reports

Mississippi

Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Mississippi Mississippi has 19.4 million…

Carbon Reports

Louisiana

Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Louisiana Louisiana has 15.0 million…

Carbon Reports

Kansas

Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Kansas Kansas has 2.5 million…

Carbon Reports

Tennessee

Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Tennessee

Presentations

Southern Loggers Cooperative, 2004-2019

Presentations

Forest Industry 2021: Supply and Demand in the South

Presentations

Extreme Weather Impacts on Forest Operations in Texas

Presentations

Differences in PNW and US South Timber Procurement

Presentations

Safety and Efficiency of State-Legal Log Trucks on Interstate Highways in Eight Wood Baskets in the US South

Presentations

2020 FBM Keynote Speaker Session

Safety Safety Training Southcentral Southeastern Technology Training Transportation

TEAM Safe Trucking: Full Speed Ahead!

Since 2015 the TEAM Safe Trucking (TST) team has been working…

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Western

2023 Thru the Trees Contest Winners

As the forestry industry continues to strengthen its initiatives to support…

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Outreach

Summary of Business – FRA 2023 Annual Meeting

FRA’s 89th Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Southcentral Region Spring…

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