by Web Editor | May 3, 2024 | Magazine
May / June 2024 KELSO, Washington – Looking at Adam Lee, co-owner of Adams Timber Service (ATS), is looking at the guy the logging industry is looking for—a younger contractor, just turned 39, solid and safe operator—to replace all those gray-headed 70-year-old...
by Web Editor | Mar 8, 2024 | Magazine
March / April 2024 UNION, South Carolina – Working as a logger who started his own operation 30 years ago and has seen the ups and downs of this industry, Chad Barfield likes his current situation operating two companies offering logging, plus roadbuilding services...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Nov 17, 2023 | Magazine
November / December 2023 FITZPATRICK, Alabama – As more loggers and landowners are exposed to the system, cut-to-length operations are making believers out of skeptics in the southeastern U.S., and quickly becoming an all-weather solution to approaching Southern...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Sep 7, 2023 | Magazine
August / September 2023 KALISPELL, Montana – For Ken Swanstrom timber harvesting in Montana means more than loads per day. For the entirety of his five decades-long career, it has been about so much more. He is the original environmentalist—his whole life’s legacy is...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Jul 5, 2023 | Magazine
July / August 2023 In this year’s Timber Harvesting Logger Survey, loggers across the country report they are facing growing challenges to profitability and business viability. SEE MORE INSIDE THIS ISSUE COVER STORY 2023 Logger Survey: Facing A Stand Of Challenges MY...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | May 1, 2023 | Magazine
May / June 2023 ST. HELENS, Oregon – Though he had been in the business 20-plus years as a contract timber cutter and large log hauler, Greg Pellham, owner of Pellham Cutting, Inc. in northern Oregon, still wanted to run his own full scale logging company, like his...
