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Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana’s timber industry
Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Louisiana Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. The damage then was limited to mainly large timber and the storm blew down large strands of large pine trees. Sixteen years later (8-29-21) to the day, Hurricane Ida made landfall in almost the same place. Unlike with Katrina, during Ida a lot of small, scattered trees as well as big ones went down. Gaston Lanaux III, of Husser, is a professional forester of 52 years and a lifetime board member of Louisiana Forestry Association and past board president of the association. Lanaux recalled how some 15-year-old trees survived Hurricane Katrina, only to be taken down by Hurricane Ida as 30-year-old trees. “Anything 15 years and up that was on commercial forest land that was planted and thinned before Ida hit, those stands have been pretty much totally devastated,” he said. Lanaux did note one... Continue reading
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September 17, 2021
Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana’s timber industry
Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Louisiana Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. The damage then was limited to mainly large timber and the storm blew down large strands of large pine trees. Sixteen years later (8-29-21) to the day, Hurricane Ida made landfall in almost the same place. Unlike with Katrina, during Ida a lot of small, scattered trees as well as big ones went down. Gaston Lanaux III, of Husser, is a professional forester of 52 years and a lifetime board member of Louisiana Forestry Association and past board president of the association. Lanaux recalled how some 15-year-old trees survived Hurricane Katrina, only to be taken down by Hurricane Ida as 30-year-old trees. “Anything 15 years and up that was on commercial forest land that was planted and thinned before Ida hit, those stands have been pretty much totally devastated,” he said. Lanaux did note one... Continue reading
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Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana’s timber industry
Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Louisiana Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. The damage then was limited to mainly large timber and the storm blew down large strands of large pine trees. Sixteen years later (8-29-21) to the day, Hurricane Ida made landfall in almost the same place. Unlike with Katrina, during Ida a lot of small, scattered trees as well as big ones went down. Gaston Lanaux III, of Husser, is a professional forester of 52 years and a lifetime board member of Louisiana Forestry Association and past board president of the association. Lanaux recalled how some 15-year-old trees survived Hurricane Katrina, only to be taken down by Hurricane Ida as 30-year-old trees. “Anything 15 years and up that was on commercial forest land that was planted and thinned before Ida hit, those stands have been pretty much totally devastated,” he said. Lanaux did note one... Continue reading