Loggers Gain Relief Funding From Feds

America’s loggers will have an opportunity to receive much needed assistance to offset losses experienced due to the COVID-19 shutdown. The Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020, which passed by a bi-partisan vote in both the House and Senate, includes language...

Major Media Hat-Tips Logging In Colorado

Always on the lookout for efforts by the mainstream media to investigate and report on news and events in forests and the forest products industry, the alert Timber Harvesting staff recently came across this description of logging in the Denver Post newspaper: “. ....

West Fraser Purchases Norbord For $3 Billion

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. is acquiring all of the outstanding common shares of Norbord, the world’s largest oriented strandboard producer, for $3.1 billion. Following closing, the combined company will operate as West Fraser. “Norbord’s OSB production is a perfect...

MLA’s Todhunter Notes Snow Work Caution

Safety specialist Jason Todhunter of the Montana Logging Assn. recently published an interesting safety note for loggers working in snowy conditions: When operating on public or public access lands in snowy tracts, loggers many times are hauling on the only road...

Indiana Man Arrested For Log Nonpayment

In fall 2020 Indiana Conservation Officers arrested a man after he engaged in buying timber without a license from six adjoining landowners in Lawrence County during the summer of 2019. According to reports, he also failed to pay three of the landowners for logs he...