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Mississippi Forestry Association Mission & Vision

MFA's Vision is to serve as the "Voice of Forestry" in Mississippi.  Our Mission is leading diverse groups to promote landowner rights, environmental stewardship, member prosperity, and community understanding. MFA members and staff work to accomplish our Mission by conducting public affairs, communication, and education programs that will foster better understanding and appreciation of conservation, development and use of forestland and resources.

Mississippi Forestry Association, organized in 1938, is a not-for-profit organization representing a broad range of members in Mississippi’s forestry community such as timberland owners, professional foresters, logging contractors, forest products manufacturers, wood fiber suppliers, state and federal agencies, and suppliers of products and services.

2009 MFA Officers

  • · President: Ellen Dabbs, Brandon

  • · 1st Vice President: Ruth Cook / Hattiesburg

  • · 2nd Vice President: Jim Shepard

  • · Treasurer: Guy Vise III / Madison

  • · Past President: Harold Gordon, Louisville

2009 MFA Committees & Chairs

  • Committee / Chair

  • Annual Meeting / Joe Spinks

  • Communications / Steve Grado

  • County Forestry Associations / John Kushla

  • Government Affairs / Steve Butler

  • Membership / Ellen Dabbs

  • MSU Forestry Liaison / David Barge

  • SFI State Implementation Committee / Mark Smith

  • Strategic Planning / Jim Shepard

  • Teachers Conservation Workshop / Angela Holland

  • Timber Harvesting & Safety / David Livingston

  • Tree Farm / Trey DeLoach

  • Youth Forestry / Patrick LeMoine

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