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Komatsu America Corp. Announces Transition
: Rod Bull Named CEO

Komatsu America Corp. Announces Transition
: Rod Bull Named CEO Komatsu America Corp. has announced that Rod Schrader will step down as Chairman and CEO on March 31, and will fully retire effective June 30, 2025. Rod Bull will become CEO of Komatsu North America Corp....

New From Waratah: Forestry Grapple Line

New From Waratah: Forestry Grapple Line Waratah Forestry Equipment has introduced its new line of forestry grapples, designed to deliver performance and reliability across a wide range of forestry and non-forestry applications. The 15 new grapple models are engineered...

New Hampshire Carbon Credit Impact Report

New Hampshire Carbon Credit Impact Report A report on the impact of carbon credit programs in New Hampshire is due later this year, part of legislation the state passed in 2024 to gauge the effect of putting timberlands in the state in carbon credit programs instead...

A Look At The 2025 Oregon Logging Conference 

A Look At The 2025 Oregon Logging Conference  Loggers from across the Pacific Northwest enjoyed a several day break from wintry weather with dry skies at the 2025 Oregon Logging Conference. According to 2025 Oregon Logging Conference President Jayme Dumford, “The show...

Idaho Group Helps Workers

Idaho Group Helps Workers Officials with Associated Logging Contractors-Idaho are moving ahead with a program to establish a worker development and recruitment program and working with related forest businesses and groups to build interest among youngsters to choose a...

President Trump Signs Order To Expedite Timber, Lumber Output

President Trump Signs Order To Expedite Timber, Lumber Output On March 1, President Donald Trump signed a far-reaching executive order directing agency heads to develop ways to increase the output of timber from federal lands while promoting increased lumber...

Maine Biofuels Plant Permitting In Process

Maine Biofuels Plant Permitting In Process Officials with the Castlerock Biofuels plant in Millinocket, Maine say permitting is in process and much of the engineering complete for the “biocrude” manufacturing plant that will produce 20 million gallons of institutional...

BC Government Refocuses On Timber Sales

BC Government Refocuses On Timber Sales The British Columbia, Canada government has launched a review of BC Timber Sales (BCTS) to ensure BC’s forestry sector is continually evolving to overcome challenges and create a guideline for a stronger, more resilient future....

2025 Oregon Logging Conference Show Educational Preview

2025 Oregon Logging Conference Show Educational Preview Chris Evans, president of Portland, Ore.-based Timberlab, is leading off the 2025 Oregon Logging Conference as the keynote speaker on February 20. Evans is emphasizing this year’s OLC theme “Timber Builds Dreams”...

Stimson, IDL Agreement Protects Idaho Forest

Stimson, IDL Agreement Protects Idaho Forest A group including Stimson Lumber Co., the Idaho Dept. of Lands (IDL), and non-profit Trust for Public Land recently announced an easement agreement that will protect 10,846 acres of working forests in Bonner and Boundary...
Stihl Reveals 2023 Hearts of Stihl Grant Recipients

Stihl Reveals 2023 Hearts of Stihl Grant Recipients

Stihl has announced the winners of the 2023 Hearts of Stihl program, an initiative to care for the environment through the preservation of America’s state parks. The 2023 winners, representing the nation’s six state park regions, were each awarded a $20,000 grant to help fund sustainability, recovery, conservation or environmental education programs…

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Logger Lights Up Family Christmas

Logger Lights Up Family Christmas

Zach Emerson, co-owner of Emerson & Sons Logging of Groton, Vt., always wanted to grow Christmas trees. Then in 2016, he learned he and his wife, Tracy, were expecting their first child, a daughter to be named Riley. “So that spring I decided it would be a great time to plant some bare-root balsam fir trees,” he remembers…

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Husqvarna Launches Online Learning Platform

Husqvarna Launches Online Learning Platform

Husqvarna is ushering in a new era for online learning with the launch of Pro Insider, a state-of-the-art web-based learning management system providing users with interactive learning opportunities for professional products and solutions, in addition to industry best practices. Husqvarna Pro Insider offers short, high-quality video courses on topics from personal protective equipment (PPE) and equipment usage to product technology and accessories…

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Northeast Loggers Group Expands

Northeast Loggers Group Expands

Officials with longtime loggers trade association, The Professional Logging Contractors of Maine, recently announced that the organization has rebranded as the Professional Logging Contractors of the Northeast, and has opened eligibility to contractors in Vermont. The PLC of the Northeast has been representing loggers since 1995, and the move reflects finding opportunity in a rapidly changing industry, says Executive Director Dana Doran…

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Machine Innovator Neil Peterson Dies

Machine Innovator Neil Peterson Dies

A memorial service was held October 29 in Pleasant Hill, Ore. for forest machinery pioneer and innovator Neil Peterson, the driving force behind Peterson Pacific Corp. that revolutionized in-woods and mobile delimbing, debarking and chipping. Peterson was not just a pioneer in his field but also a generous philanthropist, a guiding force for his team, and a beacon of opportunities for his employees…

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Sustainable Forests Report Has Mixed Results

Sustainable Forests Report Has Mixed Results

Released in September, the “National Report on Sustainable Forests, 2020” from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) and Forest Service (FS) shows both good and challenging trends as the nation’s forestland owners seek sustainable ownership and management options. The fourth such effort since 1997, the report is 60 pages…

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Veriga Tracks

Veriga Tracks

With today’s highest capacity skidders, which utilize six-wheel drive and a large grapple, tracks are commonly used to improve traction and performance. This is particularly true on soft or wet terrain, if minimal impact on the forest floor is needed, and…

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