Tennessee
State breaks ground on new forestry work center in West Tennessee – WBBJ TV
HARDEMAN COUNTY, Tenn. — A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry.
The event celebrated a new work center to be located at 1865 Fire Tower Road near Henderson.
The facility will serve as the headquarters for all forest management operations at Chickasaw State Forest, as well as landowner assistance programs, vendor services and wildland fire control operations in the region.
It’ll house administrative offices and wildland firefighting equipment storage facilities and provide a meeting space for training, outreach activities, and educational events.
“Our mission at division of forestry is to protect, conserve, enhance Tennessee’s forests and these work centers are just another way that the state is investing in that mission,” said Heather Slayton, Tennessee state forester and assistant commissioner for the Forestry Division.
State and local officials, as well as Smokey Bear, were also on hand to celebrate the groundbreaking of this new facility.
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