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Ponsse Celebrates ’55/30’ Anniversary In Rhinelander

Ponsse Celebrates ’55/30’ Anniversary In Rhinelander Celebrating dual anniversaries—55 years in business and 30 years in North America—Ponsse invited many friends and customers to its North American headquarters in Rhinelander, Wis. for a day of festivities and...

Funding Announced For Trump’s Forest Plan 

Funding Announced For Trump’s Forest Plan Putting their money where their mouth is, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) announced in late May a $200 million investment to implement the Forest Service National Active Management Strategy to increase timber...

Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Expo Announces 2025 Details

Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Equipment 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...

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...
New From Tigercat: Triangulated Harvesting Head

New From Tigercat: Triangulated Harvesting Head

In late September 2023, visitors to the Pacific Logging Congress, a live demo event held in Washington state, got a sneak peak of the new Tigercat 573 harvesting head processing logs on the end of a Tigercat 875E logger. Since then, multiple units have been testing in far flung regions from Alberta to Australia and the results are in. The 573 is shaping up to be a high performing, reliable head for roadside processing and harvesting.

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AOL Health Insurance Now Available In Oregon

Following approval from Oregon’s Division of Financial Regulation at the end of 2023, Associated Oregon Loggers is now offering logger health plans through the association. The new AOL Association Insurance Program, offered by a partnership between the AOL Health Benefits Trust and the insurance provider, Health Net of Oregon.

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Equipment Innovator Paul Bell Dies At 66

Equipment Innovator Paul Bell Dies At 66

Researchers in Colorado over a 10 year period have determined that forest thinning opens up canopies and benefits key tree pollinators by allowing more flower and shrub species that attract and sustain bee populations. Biologists from Colorado State and Utah State studied 15 thinned and 15 unthinned forest plots and found more species diversity and better overall forest health in the thinned tracts…

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Research Shows Thinning Benefits Bees, Forests

Research Shows Thinning Benefits Bees, Forests

Researchers in Colorado over a 10 year period have determined that forest thinning opens up canopies and benefits key tree pollinators by allowing more flower and shrub species that attract and sustain bee populations. Biologists from Colorado State and Utah State studied 15 thinned and 15 unthinned forest plots and found more species diversity and better overall forest health in the thinned tracts…

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Tigercat Opens West Coast Parts Warehouse

Tigercat Opens West Coast Parts Warehouse

Tigercat Industries is pleased to announce that it has opened a new 35,000 sq. ft. (3,250 sq. m) parts warehousing and distribution facility in Kelso, Wash. with a current stock of inventory valued at $3.5 million. “We are excited about opening the western warehouse for many reasons,” explains Tigercat parts manager, Brian Jonker. “To have inventory closer to our western dealers and customers will reduce both downtime and freight costs. To be able to potentially service any customer for an extra three hours of the day is also a benefit to the entire Tigercat network…

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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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