By: Chuck Owen, Toni McCallister
The Black Chronicle
From the Arkansas line, in all directions down through much of Louisiana, dipping even into Cajun country, you see trees. Everywhere. The depth and breadth of our pine and hardwood stands and forests are almost indiscernible. Since serious management became a thing in the 1940s and reforestation took hold, professionals have managed these lands for timber, wildlife, fire prevention, and the Divinely created cycle of carbon working through these trees to produce the very oxygen we breathe.