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Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Expo Announces 2025 Details

Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Expo Announces 2025 Details The 79th Annual Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo will roll into Escanaba, Mich. September 4-6, 2025. The Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo is the largest cut-to-length forest...

Weyco Buys Land From Roseburg In North Carolina

Weyco Buys Land From Roseburg In North Carolina Weyerhaeuser Co. is acquiring 117,000 acres of high-quality timberlands in North Carolina and Virginia from Roanoke Timberlands LLC, a subsidiary of Roseburg Forest Products, for $375 million.  Composed of mature, highly...

New From Komatsu: TimberPro Swing Machine

New From Komatsu: TimberPro Swing Machine A durable, powerful and productive machine designed to move mass quantities of large timber in yard environments, the TimberPro TB785D swing machine is brand new to the market. It is TimberPro’s largest, most powerful and...

SPI To Pay Damages Following El Dorado County Fire

SPI To Pay Damages Following El Dorado County Fire Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) has agreed to pay $204,284.42 to resolve the U.S.’ claim for damages resulting from a 2021 wildfire that burned about 29 acres, including National Forest System lands on the Eldorado...

Gorman Group Purchases Princeton, B.C. Sawmill 

Gorman Group Purchases Princeton, B.C. Sawmill  Weyerhaeuser has announced it has reached an agreement to sell its lumber mill in Princeton, British Columbia, to the Gorman Group, owners of Gorman Bros. Lumber Ltd., a family-owned wood products manufacturer...

Michigan Group Honors Top Logging Safety Records

Michigan Group Honors  Top Logging Safety Records During the 2025 Timbermen’s Convention held late April in Sault Ste. Marie, the Michigan Assn. of Timbermen’s (MAT) Self-Insurance Fund (MATSIF) celebrating some top safety awards during the event’s annual safety...

Loggers Nationwide Support Jobs in the Woods Act

Loggers Nationwide Support Jobs in the Woods Act Representatives from both the Associated Oregon Loggers (AOL) and Professional Logging Contractors Northeast (PLCN) are among the many industry groups supporting the Jobs in the Woods Act that has been introduced in...

Timber Harvesting  Logger Survey: Insurance Voted Biggest Challenge

Timber Harvesting Logger Survey: Insurance Voted Biggest Challenge Asked to rate a dozen different business and industry issues as having the biggest impact on their businesses, almost three-quarters of U.S. loggers (so far)—72%—say insurance issues have the biggest...

Minnesota TPA Now Offering Member Medical Health Benefit

Minnesota TPA Now Offering Member Medical Health Benefit The Minnesota Timber Producers Assn. (TPA) is partnering with CapCare and Amalgamated Local 426 Member Benefit Program to give TPA members the opportunity to offer healthcare benefits to their employees....

Weyerhaeuser Tops Forisk Timberlands List

Weyerhaeuser Tops Forisk Timberlands List Forisk released its 2025 edition of the North American Timberland Owner & Manager List, with Weyerhaeuser leading the way as an owner of 10,439 million acres, followed by J.D. Irving at 3.205 million and The Nature...
Novo BioPower Gets Some Breathing Room

Novo BioPower Gets Some Breathing Room

Novo BioPower Gets Some Breathing Room Novo BioPower CEO Brad Worsley says the Salt River Project and Arizona Public Service have signed contracts through 2033 to buy electricity generated by...

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2024 Logger Survey: Working Tough Ground

2024 Logger Survey: Working Tough Ground

Loggers across the U.S. responded to Timber Harvesting’s recent 2024 Logger Survey, which showed that contractors in all parts of the country are having a tough time grappling with rising costs and dropping demand in some areas. For example, for the first time ever across 20-plus years of logger surveys, the number of loggers who rate their company’s financial health “poor” (9%) to “very poor” (21%) outnumber those who say “good” (21%) to “very good” (7%)—30% to 28% overall in favor of the negatives.

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ALC, FS Sign MOU Noting Mutual Benefits

ALC, FS Sign MOU Noting Mutual Benefits

ALC, FS Sign MOU Noting Mutual Benefits  The American Loggers Council recently entered into a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with USDA Forest Service (FS) that formalizes future...

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Tire Manufacturer OTR Adds To Staff

Tire Manufacturer OTR Adds To Staff

OTR Engineered Solutions (OTR) has named Ben Brown as its new Global VP Sales & Marketing OEM. He will be a part of OTR’s executive team, reporting directly to President and CEO, Tom Rizzi, and will develop the company’s strategic OEM partnerships.

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New From Stihl: MS 881 R Magnum Saw

New From Stihl: MS 881 R Magnum Saw

Professionals can find the durability, dependability and performance they need in the Stihl MS 881 R Magnum chain saws. With an updated engine design, these models have the same power as the previous model while using less fuel and reducing exhaust emissions, saving time and money while also being better for the environment…

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Ponsse Elephant King

Ponsse Elephant King

The Ponsse Elephant King forwarder is the most powerful machine in the manufacturer’s forwarder range, which they claim to be the most productive forwarder on the market, offering a superior level of comfort, and is particularly economical and efficient when transport distances are long or transported trees are large…

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Bandit Purchases The Trelan Co.

Bandit Purchases The Trelan Co.

Bandit Industries has purchased The Trelan Co. from the Schumacher family. Bandit will continue to produce Trelan chippers and related products and market them as Trelan machines produced by Bandit. Bandit will also supply parts and service to Trelan customers…

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