Timber Landowners Still Evaluating Effects Of Hurricane Laura
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
The Louisiana timber industry continues to deal with the effects of the 2020 tropical weather that ravaged the state’s forestry sector.
Forestry consultant Daniel Rush of Oakdale had planned to thin a 250-acre stand of timber near Ragley in 2021, but Hurricane Laura struck first. “Hurricane Laura thinned it for us,” he said.