by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Aug 10, 2020 | News
Virginia Loggers Receive Tax Relief Following passage of a state law giving local governments the option, Virginia loggers are working with counties and other jurisdictions to adopt language exempting logging equipment and machinery from taxation—just as farming and...
by Web Editor | Sep 14, 2018 | News, News/PR
Maine’s only post-secondary mechanized logging training program will graduate its second class, of eight students, later this week. Friday’s commencement ceremony will take place in the woods southeast of Ashland, where the group spent weeks harvesting...
by Web Editor | May 10, 2018 | News, News/PR
Fourth-generation logger Loren German knew since he was a young boy that he wanted to work in the woods. But he had one piece of advice for a gaggle of third-graders who had gathered around his feller-buncher to learn how it works. “Learn computers,” he told the class...
by Web Editor | Mar 12, 2018 | News, News/PR
Because snow-covered and frozen ground may reduce the potential negative consequences caused by soil compaction and rutting, warmer winters could shorten the window on logging activities. Logging when the ground is frozen or snow-covered allows for minimal soil...
by Web Editor | Mar 7, 2018 | Editor's Blog
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...