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BLM Seeks New Timber Management Model

BLM Seeks New Timber Management Model The Bureau of Land Management has filed a notice of intent to revise the resource management plan for nearly 2.5 million acres of forests in Oregon, potentially quadrupling the amount of timber open to logging on O&C Lands...

Arizona Groups Seek To Break ‘Biomass Bottleneck’ 

Arizona Groups Seek To Break ‘Biomass Bottleneck’  A group of local governments, timber industry representatives and environmental groups recently met with congressional leaders and U.S. Forest Service officials to indicate that Arizona’s forest health efforts and...

New From Tigercat: 6440 Chipper

New From Tigercat: 6440 Chipper The new Tigercat 6440 is a heavy-duty drum chipper designed for high production and ease of operation. The high horsepower engine uses a through-drive and belt system where the rotor drive belt is driven off the motor using a flex drive...

Women In Timber Conference Registration Now Open

Women In Timber Conference Registration Now Open In January, the Carolina Women In Timber formally adopted their new organization name, the National Assn. of Women in Timber (NAWT), to better reflect their national expansion. The 7th Annual Conference will be two full...

Cow Creek-Umpqua Tribe Sign Forest Service Management Plan

Cow Creek-Umpqua Tribe Sign Forest Service Management Plan The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians and the U.S. Forest Service (FS) have signed a co-stewardship agreement covering 155,000 acres in the Umpqua and Rogue River-Siskiyou national forests in southern...

New From Ponsse: Next Gen Opti 5G System

New From Ponsse: Next Gen Opti 5G System Ponsse continuously develops solutions that improve the work of forest machine operators, and is now introducing the next-generation Opti 5G information system for tracked-based machines. The system is specifically designed to...

Canfor Announces Non-Cash Asset Write Down, Impairment Charge

Canfor Announces Non-Cash Asset Write Down, Impairment Charge Canfor Corp. has announced that it will record a non-cash asset write down and impairment charge totaling approximately $321 million in its fourth quarter of 2025 results. Of this amount, $215 million...

Ponsse Delivers 22,000th Machine To Irish Logger

Ponsse Delivers 22,000th Machine To Irish Logger Ponsse has celebrated a significant milestone— as the 22,000th forest machine, a Ponsse Elk forwarder, manufactured at the company’s Vieremä factory has been delivered to Irish customer G&G Timber Harvesting. The...

Northeast Log A Load For Kids Raises $292,746 In 2025

Northeast Log A Load For Kids Raises $292,746 In 2025 The Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of the Northeast raised $292,746 for Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) in 2025 through its annual Log A Load for Kids fundraising efforts. The total included funds raised...

SFI President & CEO Kathy Abusow To Retire

SFI President & CEO Kathy Abusow To Retire The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has announced that President and CEO Kathy Abusow will retire in 2026, having led SFI through a period of significant expansion across North America, increasing reach, impact,...

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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Wallingford’s, HSP Gripen Of Sweden Announce Partnership

Wallingford’s, HSP Gripen Of Sweden Announce Partnership

Wallingford’s Inc. is pleased to announce a new partnership with HSP Gripen of Sweden, one of the largest global manufacturers of forestry, construction, and terminal grapples. Wallingford’s Inc., with headquarters in Oakland, Me. has distribution facilities in New Hampshire, Oregon, Quebec, and Alberta. Founded in 1975, Wallingford’s is the largest wholesale distributor of logging supplies in North America. In December 2021 Wallingford’s, Inc. became a member of the pewag Group, a leading global company in traction devices and industrial chain solutions—founded in 1479 and headquartered in Austria…

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