49-19-61 - Mixed pine and hardwood trees. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 49-19-61. Mixed pine and hardwood trees.
 

Where timber is to be harvested for commercial purposes on forest lands containing a mixed stand of pine and hardwood timber, no person, partnership, firm, association or corporation shall cut, contract to cut, authorize, direct or assist in cutting of any timber from such lands unless there is left standing on each acre of land at least four pine seed trees of ten inches or more in diameter of the commercial species being harvested along with at least two hardwood seed trees of ten inches or more in diameter of the commercial species which is being harvested. In the event that pine trees predominate in such mixed stands, and it is desired that pine trees less than eight inches in diameter are to be harvested, Section 49-19-57 shall rule. On lands classified as mixed stands of pine and hardwood there shall be no limitations on the amount or size of the hardwood trees harvested. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 6046-15; Laws,  1944, ch. 240, § 6.