Wisconsin Loggers Holding Off On Timber Harvests

Some northern Wisconsin loggers are putting off timber harvests. The prices for timber products they deliver have fallen over the past eight months. Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association Executive Director Henry Schienebeck said some loggers are holding off on...

Oil Boom Thins The Ranks Of Loggers In Wisconsin

This is an interesting time in the Wisconsin logging business, one of the state’s signature industries. Sawmills are looking for logs and the logging industry is looking for loggers. “It’s a smidge more complicated than that but, yes, you could say there...

Wisconsin Wildfire Started By Logging Operations

Prosecutors announced Thursday they won’t file charges against loggers whose equipment apparently started a massive wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin, concluding there was no criminal intent or negligence. The fire began Tuesday afternoon in the woods near...