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Bellehaven Forestry Plantation Named Feliciana’s Tree Farm of the YearBy James Ronald skains

At the annual Feliciana Forestry Association (FFA) meeting held on January 28 in St. Francisville, Bellehaven Forestry Plantation, lo-cated on Hwy 422 near Norwood, was selected as the Tree Farm of the Year. The forested plantation en-compasses 1,030 of the total 1,080 acres owned by the Norwood/Reed/Gibson family.

The matriarch of the family, Net-tie Adele Norwood Reed, known affectionately as “Mrs. Tat”, was unable to attend because of her ad-vancing age. She is now past 90 years of age; however, her family, comprised of Richard and Deb-bie Reed, and Jim and Ann Reed

East Feliciana Standout Players Sign with Louisiana CollegesFebruary 5th was National Let-

ter of Intent Day, which allows high school football players to sign a letter of commitment with the college of their choice.

Having prepared and waited for this big day for weeks, months, and even three or four years, three young men were all hyped up and ready to sign on the dotted line from East Feliciana High School.

Locking up these excellent football players were all Louisiana colleges. Danny Johnson signed on the dotted line with Southern, Louisiana College secured Der-ryl Matthews and Louisiana Tech seized Kameron McKnight.

Before the official signing took place a program was held to thank the gentlemen for giving their best for the East Feliciana High Tigers.

After a moment of silence the National Anthem was sung by Ver-lencia Banks, the Purpose was giv-en by Nick’Kyra Turner. An over-view was contributed by Counselor Gains and Coach Anderson. After their coach gave some words of

encouragement, congratulations, and good luck, he had the young men to sign their letters of intent.

Following the signing, each of the college football recruits said a few words to the student body and

others in attendance. The program ended with a few words from their principal, Monique Montgomery.

Superintendent Henderson Lewis, Derryl Matthews, Coach Anderson, Danny Johnson, Principal Montgomery, and Kameron McKnight.

The owners of Bellehaven Forest Plantation, selected as Outstanding Landowners of the Year by the FFA: Jim and Ann Reed Gibson, Richard and Debbie Reed, and nominator, Tom Manuel.

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Gibson, more than adequately rep-resented Mrs. Tat in accepting the award.

“This is a real honor for our family,” Richard Reed told the nearly 200 attendees at the annual meeting held at the United Meth-odist Church in St. Francisville. “It’s been a labor of love for gen-erations of our family taking care of the property.”

“Up until the 1950’s, the proper-ty was used for farming and cattle operations. Mrs. Tat’s father made the decision to plant pine trees, which everyone thought was a cra-zy idea at the time. However, it has proven out over the last 50 years to have been a very wise decision.”

Tom Manuel was the nominating

member of the FFA for Bellehaven to receive the award. Manuel point-ed out to the attendees: “I first met Mrs. Tat about 20 years ago. She was still very active in taking care of her property at that time.‘Mrs. Tat was not satisfied with just read-ing a forester’s proposed manage-ment plan for her property. Mrs. Tat wanted to get in the truck and ride the land with the forester to see what was really happening on her property,” Manuel recalled. “She always asked questions and was not above offering constructive criticism of the plan. She knew her property and its capabilities.”

“Mrs. Tat related to me that that she often ‘rode the farm’ with her father during the 1930’s. If they spotted a pine tree growing any-where, it was her job to jump out of the truck and either pull it up or

chop it down. She was able to ‘ride the farm’ from the time it was used for farming and cattle, until trees were planted and then was able to see the second crop of timber grow on the 1,050 acres.”

The property has been in the Norwood/Reed Family since 1890, some 124 years ago. Through six generations, each member of the family of generations has found the property to have a major impact on their lives. Richard and Ann are of the fourth generation of landown-ers of Bellehaven. Their children are the 5th generation and their grandkids are the sixth generation.

Within the last five years, the Bellehaven Forest Plantation has undergone the five major steps of a forest management plan, harvest-ing, control burning, reforestation, best management practices, and

wildlife management. The Belle-haven forest property is primarily managed for timber growing. Sec-ondly, the focus is on wildlife man-agement, and the third focus of the owners is retaining the aesthetic value and family heritage.

The Feliciana Forestry Associa-tion was formed in 1995 as a non-profit organization for the purpose of serving as the “Voice of Forest-ry” in East and West Feliciana Par-ish. The FFA, with 270 members is the largest area forestry Associa-tion in Louisiana. Dennis Aucoin of Clinton was the first president of the Association and Brian Chan-dler, the first secretary of the orga-nization in 1995, is still faithfully serving the Association as secre-tary.

Brent Fazende is the current president taking the place of Joe

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Harvey who served in that posi-tion in 2013. In 2013, the FFA held their annual meeting in Clinton where 154 timber people attended. In April 2013, the FFA the Associa-tion held a Forestry & Wildlife Day at which attendance was around 70.

The FFA also held 3 Board of Directors meetings in 2013, toured the Pallet One manufacturing plant in St. Francisville, and donated 28 rain gauges to East and West Feli-ciana Parish Schools. David Dart preceded Harvey as President of the Association in 2012. Fazende will be succeeded by Jim Fowler in the leadership position next year.

Wade Dubea, Louisiana State Forester and head of the Louisiana Forestry Department, was the key-note speaker for the Thursday night event. Dubea said: “We have seen

some ups and downs in the forest industry, as well as the Department of Forestry in the last few years. We think that we have things stabilized in the Department although we are still short of personnel, especially in the firefighting crews.”

“However, we are the only game in the state for wildfire fire sup-pression. We don’t ever send a pri-vate landowner a bill for fighting a wildfire. At one time, we had 286 employees in the Department, but due to budget cuts, we are down to 165 employees. Our wildfire fight-ing capabilities have shrunk to the point where one firefighter is theo-retically responsible for 400,000 acres.”

“We rely heavily on our aircraft for fire detection, with the pilots flying grid patterns daily during fire

season,’’ Dubea pointed out. “We are asking them to look for other things on the flights such as bug infestation in timer. We have also restructured our firefighting crews. Before, we had three crew shifts but now everyone is on call, but we do have a rotation of the crews in place.”

Writer’s note: The Feliciana Forestry Association is a well-run organization that is truly a “voice for forestry” in the Feliciana’s. The annual meeting was impres-sive. The food was excellent and the camaraderie of the members was obvious. With the development of the pine log export business at ports on the Mississippi River and the pellet mills, the Feliciana tim-ber landowners may soon see a rise in demand for their timber.

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The St. Francisville Rotary Club welcomed two new members in February. Pictured are President Chris Johnston, Dorcas Brown, sponsor, new members, Dare Didier and O.P. Falgoust, and sponsor Bryan McClendon.

The Feliciana Chapter of OLLI at LSU held a Coffee in New Roads at the Julien Poy-dras Museum & Arts Center on January 22. Randy Harelson, writer and historian, and Brian Costello, geneologist, and 11th generation from Pointe Coupee, gave a slide & talk presentation on “Looking Across the Mississippi - The View from Pointe Cou-pee”. Harleson and Costello told about the history of Point Coupee and the connection with the Felicianas from early times to today. The slides were taken from Harelson and Costello’s book “New Roads and Old Rivers” with photo credits by Richard Sexton.A large turn out of members and guests from St. Francisville, New Roads, Zachary, Clinton and Baton Rouge showed enthusiastic interest in the histories of both Parishes and the families that built the towns and the plantation homes along the Mississippi River. OliviaPass is Chapter Chairman. Coffee Chairman was Georgia La Cour. Hospitality was headed by Teresa Simmons. All OLLI Coffees are open to the public. Pictured above is Randy Harleson, Olivia Pass, and Brian Costello. Photo by Barbara Glass.

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Mr. and Mrs. Lio-nel Kelly of Zachary are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Shyrell Kelly to Trevor Deon Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Parker of Ba-ton Rouge. The couple will wed in a 6 pm cer-emony on March 8, 2014 at Ashley Manor Catering and Event Center in Ba-ton Rouge.

The bride-elect is a 2006 graduate of Zachary High School and a 2011 graduate of Southern Uni-versity and A&M Col-lege. She is employed as a Middle School History Teacher at Lake Charles Charter Academy.

The groom-elect is a graduate of Scotlandville Magnet High School and Southern University and A&M College and works as a Mechanical Engi-neer with CB&I in Lake Charles.

Kelly and Parker to Wed Collins Reese Casey

Brittany and Tony Casey are pleased to announce the arrival of their baby girl, Collins Reese Casey. She was born on Decem-ber 12, 2013 at Lane Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 lbs., 12 ounces. Maternal grand-parents are Valmond and Linda Wallace of Zachary. Paternal grandmother is Brenda Casey of Ethel, La.

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James Larry Crain passed away peacefully at Carpenter House Hos-pice in Baton Rouge, Sunday, Febru-ary 2nd. He will be remembered for his love of history and his contribu-tions to historic preservations in the town of Jackson, LA. He will also be remembered for being the president of Southeastern Louisiana Universi-ty from (1980-1986). He is survived

by his beloved wife of 57 years, Jean Lott Crain and his three children: sons, Rick and Randall Crain and daughter Rita Crain McIntyre. He had three grandchildren Lara Mc-Intyre Aguirre, Elizabeth Crain, and Rodney McIntyre Jr. His memorial is scheduled for 4 p.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church, 407 W. Charles Street, Hammond, LA.

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Local Rancher Inspires Agriculture for a Younger GenerationBy James Ronald skains

Amelia Kent is not your typical rancher, although she and her hus-band Russell own a considerable size beef cow operation in the Feli-ciana’s. Amelia is a 2004 graduate of Wellesley College outside Boston,

Massachusetts. Wellesley College for Women is often referred to as one of the seven sisters of the Ivy League schools in the northeast part of the USA.

“My roots are in agriculture, tim-ber and beef cattle,” Amelia told the Feliciana EXPLORER. “I grew up

on a ranch in Colorado, then spent some of my teenage years at my grandmother’s plant nursery and timber operation in Folsom.

I was showing beef cattle in 4-H shows by the time I was seven years old. I had two steers that weighed about 1,200 pounds each. I won first and second place in the show, but was required to sell the winner at a 4-H auction. I well remember lead-ing my steer to the loading dock to send him to the packaging house.”

“I bawled for two weeks until the check for $2,000 came in,’’ Amelia recalled. “My parents opened a sav-ings account for me at the bank, and I stopped crying. I learned an impor-tant lesson about raising cattle and

the real world at an extremely early age.”

“Although it was obvious at an early age that I was rooted in the land and cow and horse operations, my dad thought that I should experi-ence another side of life. That was why I went to Wellesley College. Wellesley had no academic program remotely related to agriculture so I got a double major in Economics and Religion.”

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“During the summer of my sopho-more years, several of my classmates were touring Europe. One was sing-ing at the London Opera and others were working in Paris and Rome,” Amelia recalled. “However, I was working in the hayfields of Colo-rado, cutting hay mostly at night to make sure we got the clover blooms. Driving a tractor at night cutting hay really cut into my nightlife.”

Perhaps it was destiny to return to Louisiana in the fall of 2005. Hur-ricane Katrina had devastated her grandmother’s nationally renowned nursery in Folsom, Jenkins Nursery, home to Ms. Margie Jenkins and several varieties of Azaleas which were developed by “Ms. Margie.”

“The plant nursery was in sham-bles. We were like many people,

without electricity for two weeks,” Amelia related. “Not only were the plants devastated, but so were acres and acres of prime timber land. It became my lot to help clean up the nursery and deal with the fallen tim-ber.”

“Just before Katrina hit, I had accepted a job with a ski resort in Colorado. That seemed to be my ca-reer path at the time. However, after seeing all my responsibilities back in Louisiana, I “passed” on the job at the Ski Resort. My grandfather was a logger and had accumulated a number of acres of pine timberland which was all flattened.”

Amelia started her own cattle operation after getting the property cleaned up. Being active in the Farm Bureau and Cattlemen’s organiza-tion, Amelia began to assume more roles as her cattle operation grew. At one of the organization’s meetings, she met Russell Kent, a fellow cattle rancher.

“It was kind of strange the way we met,’’ Amelia remembered. “At one of these trade meetings, we were in a group of people. I knew every-one in the group except Russell, and he knew everyone but me.

They married in 2010. Now, with a combined cattle operation, Amelia takes care of the cattle and the pas-tures during the week while Russell continues with his job at First South Credit in Zachary. Evenings and weekends, the cattle operation is a joint effort.

Amelia attended the prestigious LSU Ag Leadership program in 2007 and 2008. She was in the 11th graduating class of the LSU Ag Leadership Program. Amelia’s inter-national trip was to South America where she observed cattle, row crop, and timber operations. Russell is a graduate of the #12 LSU Ag Leader-ship classes of 2010.

Amelia and Russell are Vice-Presidents of the Young Farmer and Ranchers of the Louisiana Farm Bu-reau Association. Recently Amelia was selected as a Panelist on the Urban Agricultural Leadership Fo-rum scheduled for February 11 in New Orleans. Amelia will discuss “Niche Beef Cattle” operations. The Agribusiness Council of Louisiana, which is sponsoring the event, at which Amelia will be a panelist, is based in New Orleans. Its mission is to foster and provide appropri-

ate support for the agriculture that impact, or is shipped through, New Orleans and other parts of Louisi-ana. The purpose also includes the promotion and utilization of agricul-ture products, as well as the devel-opment of leadership in agriculture. The term “agriculture” is used in its broadest dimension to include food, fiber, fuel and forest products.

“We also have an operation for providing grass fed beef to certain restaurants in south Louisiana,” Amelia explained. “Our cattle are raised to a weight of about 500 pounds on grass without any growth hormones or stimulants.”

“We are expanding this opera-tion to include providing what we call “freezer beef” to individuals who want custom beef cuts or a side of beef from grass feed cattle. Our select group of young cattle will be ready for the slaughterhouse by May. We’ve already started taking orders for beef.”

Writer’s note: If Amelia Kent is a prime face of the future of Agricul-ture in Louisiana, then I feel confi-dent that her generation will rise to any and all challenges.