Hurricane Laura Packs Louisiana Punch
By Jacqlyn Kirkland, Southern Loggin’ Times
Loggers and landowners in Louisiana experienced a year’s worth of timber harvests overnight as more than 758,000 acres of timberland were badly damaged by Hurricane Laura in late August. That includes more than 3.5 billion BF of sawtimber (2.8 billion BF pine and 740 billion BF of hardwood) alone. According to a report by Jeff Zeringue in the Louisiana Logging Council’s Louisiana Logger publication, more than 39 million tons of wood came crashing down as the storm blew through.