OLC Reaches Teens

OLC Reaches Teens

Written by Dan Shell Twenty-something Millennial generation logging equipment operators from Miller Timber Services in Philomath, Ore. told their story at Oregon Logging Conference in Eugene, Ore. on Feb. 22-24. More than 400 local Oregon high school students attended...

Loggers Are Heroes

Written By: Wendy Farrand A hint of daylight seeps through the wooden blinds as I rise from my cherry bed, and go down the old pine stairs to the kitchen to make my husband’s lunch. Holding onto the oak banister, I make my way slowly as my muscles wake up....

TEAM Safe Trucking: Elevate The Standard

Written By: DK Knight Enthusiasm is building for the ambitious plan of TEAM Safe Trucking (TST), a broad-based non-profit group seeking to elevate the standard and performance of the American forest industry’s deeply troubled transportation sector, which organizers...

Georgia Gunman Hijacks Log Truck In Rampage

Written By: DK Knight Haley Hill, 23, died at Athens Regional Medical Center in Georgia after being removed from life support systems last week, Oglethorpe County Sheriff Mike Smith said Thursday (August 27). She had been hospitalized since Monday, after she was...
Imprisoned Loggers Freed

Imprisoned Loggers Freed

Written By: Dan Shell So you think you’ve got it bad? Complaining about EPA regulations or state weight laws? Well, consider yourself lucky that you’re not one of 155 Chinese loggers swept up in a series of arrests in neighboring Myanmar, charged with...
The Beautiful, Frozen, Maine Countryside

The Beautiful, Frozen, Maine Countryside

Written By: Jessica Johnson On my second to last day in Maine, I was fortunate enough to visit the continental U.S.’s northern most point: Fort Kent, a beautiful, vibrant small town. It’s crazy to think that while I was stomping around in snow in front of the First...