The Mississippi Forestry Foundation is a nonprofit, nonstock corporation established in 1964 by MFA to promote and carry out educational,
literary, scientific, and charitable programs to better conserve, develop, and protect the forest and related natural resources of Mississippi
for the best interest of this and future generations.
Nicols “nic” Torrence is the recipient of the first MFF MSU College of Forest Resources student scholarship.
Nicols “Nic” Torrence is the winner of the first Mississippi Forestry Foundation (MFF) Mississippi State University college of Forest Resources scholarship. Torrence, a junior forestry major from Florence, is concentrating in forest management. Torrence plays on the MSU soccer team and is active in MSU’s Reformed Fellowship. He was a presidential Scholar at Hinds Community College and is a Dean’s scholar at MSU. During the summer, Torrence works at the Nantahala Outdoor Center as a white water rafting guide. “This scholarship also allows me to focus on my school work and not have to work at a full time job while taking classes. When I complete my degree in forest management I plan to get a job with the USDA Forest Service and work throughout the United States and possibly in other countries.” The MFF’s scholarship is an annual scholarship that is limited to juniors and seniors in any major at the College of Forest Resources. Applicants also submit two letters of recommendation to confirm active participation in extracurricular school and community activities.
The Mississippi Forestry Foundation sponsors special projects such as Towering Treasures, a special forestry exhibit at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson. The Foundation also promotes statewide forest fire protection through a reward program for the arrest and conviction of timberland arsonists.
To become a member of the Mississippi Forestry Foundation, download the application and mail to MFF.
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The Foundation has published two Mississippi forest history books.
Mississippi Forests and Forestry, researched and written by Dr. James Fickle of the University of Memphis, tells the story of human interaction with
Mississippi’s woodlands. It is a comprehensive history of how people used the state’s forests and how conservation triumphed.
You may order by clicking on the book title or picture.
Timber: A Photographic History of Mississippi Forestry
is a collection of black-and-white images that conveys the story of human impact on Mississippi's forests from the pioneer era to the present.
Photographs gleaned from public and private archives tell a visual tale of the development of Mississippi's forest industries.
You may order by clicking on the book title or picture.
Forest Fire Reward
MFA pays a $500 reward to persons
providing information leading to arrest and conviction of
felons setting woods fires. MFA works closely with the
Mississippi Forestry Commission and law enforcement
officials, and our county forestry association
affiliates.
For information about the local CFAs, contact your local MSU Extension Service Directors.
The Mississippi Forestry Commission provides forestry information and assistance through their county foresters and offices statewide.