Back in February, the H-B editorial team moved forward with Timber Harvesting’s 2011 Logging Business Survey, its third since 2003. We did it reluctantly because we knew what we’d find: a depressing situation overall. Click here to view the full article.

A federal judge has ruled that Roseburg Forest Products affiliate, Scott Timber, is to be compensated $6.9 million from the federal government because it violated several timber sales contracts suspended more than a decade ago.

Keeping a logging business on a steady, productive, fiscally stable course today is more challenging than ever. Constrained markets, soaring operating costs, out-of-step rates, tight quotas, expanding regulations, slim or no profits and practitioners who don’t know their costs and are prone to work cheaply have combined to push a significant number of the nation’s loggers close to the edge. Click here to view the full article.

Let’s face it. When it comes to adopting computerized technology, loggers as a general rule don’t lead the charge.

What began as an efficiency move to overcome weather-related downtime has evolved into an additional revenue stream for the co-owners of Richards Logging LLC.

Caterpillar Forest Products hosted a Forestry Worldwide Dealer Meeting March 2-4 in Peachtree City, Ga. Fifty dealerships from around the world were represented.

Conservationists, scientists, industry representatives, community leaders and the U.S. Forest Service signed an agreement to restore ponderosa pine forests in four national forests in northern Arizona.