My Take
Straight from the print magazine, the editors use this column to provide deeper insights into features, provide editorial comments on current events, and maybe even ramble just a little bit. My Takes is your chance to peek into their minds.
Beginnings
Way back in the 1940s my father was a local kid with smarts. Born into a farming family in Butler County, Ala., he grew up loving his family, the land, animals and hunting and fishing. He was even working his way into the timber industry: The folks running W.T. Smith Lumber in Chapman gave him a summer job learning to cruise and mark timber, and he planned to attend Auburn University and go into forestry…
ALC Meeting Touts Group’s Growing Impact
Special thanks go to the host group Associated Loggers-Idaho, Executive Director Shawn Keough and Idaho state group and national ALC President Tim Christopherson and everyone else involved for their hard work and hospitality in putting on a great event. The great fall weather can be a little harder to pull off but they definitely did. And Scott Dane, ALC executive vice president, put together a highly informative seminar and fun and significant banquet package…
It’s Their Hearts: The People Of Seaway Timber Harvesting
Sometimes being in business means finding problems to solve. Other times it means solving problems that are already there. Over 30 years ago when the Curran brothers, Pat, Lee and Time, started their logging business – aptly named Curran Logging – they thought they knew what to expect. Hard workers from basically birth, this bunch from upstate New York has never met a
Economic Impact Of Fighting Coronavirus Will Hit Loggers Hard—But For How Long?
Feeling all “critical and essential” yet? After congratulating themselves for maybe half a day after being deemed such an important part of the economy as much of the larger economy shut down this spring, loggers and their representative associations have continued…
True Carbon Keepers Offer Real Solutions
Looking back at the time spent in Oregon for the Oregon Logging Conference (OLC) and several other stories, sunny weather was a great complement to the event, which is many times held under adverse weather conditions. Crowds thronged…
Voices of 2019: TH Looks Back
As we look ahead to 2020 it sometimes helps to look back at what we heard in 2019 and the voices of our industry. “We manage very much as a team, and try to cover for each other’s weaknesses while playing to our…
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