Logging Business of the Year Miller Timber Services is helping make the company’s wood basket as competitive as possible. They are doing this by running equipment that’s smarter and more environmentally sensitive while developing competitive operations. Miller…
Tigercat announced the launch of SECURE – its new extended coverage program. SECURE offers customers a selection of four competitive coverage plans for engines and drivetrain components that begin after the standard warranty period on…
Weiler Forestry, Inc. announced the launch of its purpose-built forestry products following its acquisition of Caterpillar’s purpose-built forestry business. The product line consists of wheel skidders, track feller-bunchers, wheel feller-bunchers, and knuckleboom loaders. Weiler Forestry…
The 2019 Timber Harvesting Logger Survey looked at logger concerns and regional issues along with differences and similarities among loggers across the U.S. in key timber-producing regions. As a way to thank survey respondents, we…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is extending the public comment period on proposed changes to modernize how the agency complies with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The proposed rule would give the…
Loggers, truckers and others gathered by the hundreds outside Oregon’s State Capitol in late June—with trucks rolling and hardhats and caulk boots worn as badges of solidarity—to protest and ultimately help defeat proposed state cap-and-trade…
The Arizona Corporation Commission recently dealt a major blow to forest restoration efforts in the state by voting down a proposal to convert an electricity generating unit to burn biomass instead of coal at the…
John Deere has received approval from the U.S. Department of Labor for its new Registered Apprenticeship Program and is making it available to its ag & turf and construction & forestry dealers. The program will…
Western Star Trucks recognizes “time is money” for every logger. For over 50 years, the company has built their heavy duty trucks by hand, one at a time, to ensure every truck is built to…
Auburn University research has helped lead to a new product to reduce Southern pine seedling mortality for the forestry industry. “This is a major accomplishment that will allow forest tree nurseries to store their seedlings…
Officials with the Oregon Logging Conference Foundation recently announced 14 scholarship recipients for the 2019-20 school year who have received a total of $25,000 in scholarships. Nearly half are repeat recipients. Seven of the students…
Team Safe Trucking, a provider of training solutions for the forestry transportation, has released the name of its new training program for drivers wanting to obtain a CDL specifically to drive forest products following the…