Despite challenges posed by the pandemic, the USDA Forest Service announced it surpassed goals in 2020. The agency sold more than 3.2 billion BF of timber, the second highest level in 20 years. It also…
America’s loggers will have an opportunity to receive much needed assistance to offset losses experienced due to the COVID-19 shutdown. The Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020, which passed by a bi-partisan vote in both…
Waratah Forestry Equipment offers a new model configuration of the HTH623C harvester head. The HTH623C loader processor (LP) features a wide delimb opening for increased productivity while its short tilt frame improves reach for higher…
Always on the lookout for efforts by the mainstream media to investigate and report on news and events in forests and the forest products industry, the alert Timber Harvesting staff recently came across this description of logging in…
Forest products industry, environmental and conservation leaders have announced an agreement of principles on the important role sustainably managed forests and forest products can play in mitigating climate change. The principles were signed by the…
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. is acquiring all of the outstanding common shares of Norbord, the world’s largest oriented strandboard producer, for $3.1 billion. Following closing, the combined company will operate as West Fraser. “Norbord’s…
Safety specialist Jason Todhunter of the Montana Logging Assn. recently published an interesting safety note for loggers working in snowy conditions: When operating on public or public access lands in snowy tracts, loggers many times…
In fall 2020 Indiana Conservation Officers arrested a man after he engaged in buying timber without a license from six adjoining landowners in Lawrence County during the summer of 2019. According to reports, he also failed…
Aspen Fuels has recently launched in the U.S. market, bringing its premixed high-octane Aspen 2 (for 2-stroke engines) and Aspen 4 (4-stroke) gasoline to professionals. Aspen’s products are engineered alkylate-based fuels, which are one of…
The 16,000th Ponsse forest machine was completed at the end of September at Ponsse’s factory in Vieremä, Finland. The Ponsse Ergo harvester was delivered to Celulose Nipo-Brasileira S.A. (CENIBRA) for operation in eucalyptus plantations in…
Central Boiler began operating in 1984 and is the premier manufacturer of quality outdoor wood and wood pellet furnaces. One of its many industry-leading accomplishments was the production of the first EPA program qualified outdoor…
With the forestry series gaining a strong reputation in the industry, Maxam has expanded the program to include the all-new MS930. A tire engineered to provide the efficiency and strength of the Logxtra series while…