September/October 2024

September/October 2024

September / October 2024 2024 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year Timber Harvesting’s 2024 Logging Business of the Year, Shamco, Inc. in Iron River, Mich., is a fully involved family business that performs top notch woods work and also finds time to pro-...
July/August 2024

July/August 2024

July / August 2024 Loggers Adapting To Changing Industry Results from the 2024 Timber Harvesting Logger Survey show an industry undergoing wrenching change around the country. In addition to the challenges of operating highly capitalized businesses in mostly rural...
May/June 2024

May/June 2024

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...
March/April 2024

March/April 2024

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...
November/December 2023

November/December 2023

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...
September/October 2023

September/October 2023

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...