2020 Lowcountry Landowner Association Meeting

Senator Chip Campsen speaks with Tim Adams looking on

The Lowcountry Landowner Association held its third anniversary membership meeting in Ridgeland on Thursday, March 12. The inaugural meeting was held in 2018 in Colleton County, and the membership focus area includes Colleton, Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton countries. The ‘Timber Talk’ meeting agenda speakers comprised of forestry professionals and private landowners, followed by a Question and Answer segment. The facility at Palmetto Electric Cooperative was full of Lowcountry landowners trying to assess the path forward for tree farming for the next decade.

The first speaker was Tim Adams, the Development Division Director with the S.C. Forestry Commission, and co-author of the Wave of Wood brochure. A slideshow of data and statistics graphs helps to convey his message, with the ‘wave of wood’ representing an abundance of any particular forest product. “There is a glut of sawtimber in South Carolina now, but that will slowly shift back to pulpwood stocks, as final harvest cuts are made on the larger trees,” said Adams. 

2020 Spring Meeting Agenda

Colleton County resident Tracy Burttram has 21-years experience as the procurement manager for the Elliott Sawmilling Company in Estill. “After a long run of being locally owned by the Elliott Brothers, the mill was recently purchased by Canfor Corporation based in Vancouver, British Columbia,” said Burttram. “Canfor has bought sawmills in six Southeastern states, expanding their integrated forest products capacity. Our mill purchases 750 truckloads of logs each week, and besides cutting boards that volume also generates about 400 loads of residuals like woodchips that we can sell. We have a comfort zone of about 40-miles for timber deliveries, and longer hauling distances can negatively affect stumpage prices for landowners.”

To view the feature article in the newspaper click on Colletonian.

To view past blog entries about landowner meetings click on 2019 Lowcountry Landowners -  2018 Lowcountry Landowner Association - 2016 Kershaw County Landowners - 2011 Tri-County Forestry Association - ACE Basin - S.C. Prescribed Fire Council - Savannah River Preserve - Herbicide - Mayfield Garden Club - 2010 S.C. Tree Farm Volunteer of the Year - 2009 Forest Landowners Association

To view past blog entries about controlled burning click on 2015 Prescribed Fire Council Meeting - 2015 Prescribed Fire - Plowing Firebreaks - 2014 Dry Weather Fire Threat - SCDNR Prescribed Fire - 2013 Prescribed Fire - 2012 Prescribed Fire - 2009 Wildfire - 2009 Prescribed Fire Council