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Rankin County board approves $1 million budget amendment, authorizes two crews for deadfall tree removal
Summary
After county staff described thousands of dead trees across county rights-of-way and sought federal hazard-mitigation aid, the Rankin County Board of Supervisors approved a $1 million budget amendment funded from the general fund to accelerate deadfall clearing and authorized two crews to clear roads.
The Rankin County Board of Supervisors on April 3 approved a budget amendment to provide $1 million from the county general fund to accelerate removal of deadfall trees along county rights-of-way and authorized crews to increase removal work.
County staff said crews have removed roughly 3,000 dead trees since the effort began last April and estimated that the current work has covered approximately 40% of priority areas when combined with utility-company trimming. Staff described an expanding problem: crews reported seeing hardwoods and pines losing needles and…
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