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Forest Service Headquarters Moving To Salt Lake City

Forest Service Headquarters Moving To Salt Lake City The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service (FS) has announced it will move its headquarters to Salt Lake City, Ut., and begin a sweeping restructuring of the agency to move leadership closer to the...

Road Runner Repair Celebrates 10 Years With Ponsse

Road Runner Repair Celebrates 10 Years With Ponsse Road Runner Repair began in 2011 when Aaron Vizer, after 13 years as a field service technician, started his own business. What began with a single service truck quickly grew into a full operation. Recognizing the...

FRA Announces Outstanding Logger Award Southwide Region Winners 

FRA Announces Outstanding Logger Award Southwide Region Winners  The Forest Resources Association (FRA), in partnership with John Deere, honored Ricky Summerford of Summerford Enterprises Inc. from Fulton, Miss., as the 2026 Southcentral Region Outstanding Logger and...

Permitting Progress Continues For Tigercat’s Carbonizer

Permitting Progress Continues For Tigercat’s Carbonizer Tigercat’s 6040 carbonizer is a mobile, track-mounted unit designed to transform woody debris into high-quality biochar on-site. It reduces volume by 90% and sequesters 20-30% of the available carbon in the...

Morbark Appoints Doug Adrian President 

Morbark Appoints Doug Adrian President  As of February 16, 2026, Doug Adrian has been appointed President of Morbark. Based in Winn, Mich., Adrian brings more than 26 years of global leadership experience across sales, marketing, operations, product management, supply...

U.S. Endowment Launches $5 Million Funding Opportunity 

U.S. Endowment Launches $5 Million Funding Opportunity  The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has announced a $5 million funding opportunity to connect underutilized wood fiber with new buyers, strengthen regional supply chains and keep working forests...

USDA Invests $115.2M Through Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan

USDA Invests $115.2M ThroughTimber Production Expansion Program At the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference, U.S. Department of Agriculture Administrator for the Rural Business and Cooperative Service J.R. Claeys announced the USDA is guaranteeing $115.2 million...

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...

Idaho Health Group Plan Keeps Growing

Idaho Health Group Plan Keeps GrowingA note in the March-April Idaho Logger publication of the Associated Logging Contractors-Idaho loggers association says the group’s health plan that...

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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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