Landowners in the Pine Belt of Mississippi now have the opportunity to replant hardwood trees that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. According to USDA, Katrina killed or damaged nearly 320 million trees across Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. After the destruction, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service teamed up with Restore the Earth Foundation Inc., to reforest about 30,000 acres with 1.5 million hardwood seedlings in parts of Mississippi and Louisiana. NRCS is now offering the same opportunity to landowners in the Pine Belt. Read more (Hattiesburg American).
