News & Innovation

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...
Brazil Cracks Down On Illegal Logging

Brazil Cracks Down On Illegal Logging

Brazilian officials in late December shut down scams involving hundreds of companies allegedly covering up illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. Agents claim more than 200 companies and 21 logging companies were involved in various schemes disguising the origin of illegal wood, according to news reports…

read more
SFI Appoints New Chief Sustainability, Diversity Officer

SFI Appoints New Chief Sustainability, Diversity Officer

Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) announced Bettina Ring as its new Chief Sustainability and Diversity Officer. Ring will provide leadership on strategic initiatives related to sustainability and diversity. She will also seek to leverage SFI’s scale to drive meaningful change in the forest and conservation sector through collaboration with SFI’s network…

read more
DEMO International Postpones Another Two Years

DEMO International Postpones Another Two Years

DEMO International, one of North America’s largest outdoor forestry equipment shows, has postponed its fall 2022 show another two years. The highly anticipated in-woods show, originally scheduled for fall 2020, is now planning for a 2024 event…

read more
Oregon May Alter Forest Practices

Oregon May Alter Forest Practices

Oregon is embarking on a major change to the Oregon Forest Practices Act following an agreement reached by preservationist and timber industry groups. According to the participants, changes to the act will deliver a variety of new protections for sensitive and endangered species and also provide more regulatory and legal certainty for…

read more
ALC Seeks Additional PATHH Funding

ALC Seeks Additional PATHH Funding

The need and success of the Pandemic Assistance for Timber Harvesters and Haulers (PATHH) was demonstrated by more than 5,600 applications representing eligibility for $385 million in aid, according to American Loggers Council. Unfortunately, this figure is nearly double the $200 million appropriated for the program…

read more

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.

WANT MORE CONTENT?

Spanning seven decades since its inception in 1952, Timber Harvesting highlights innovative and successful logging operations across the U.S. and around the world. Timber Harvesting also emphasizes new technology and provides the best marketing vehicle for the industry’s suppliers to reach the largest number of loggers in North America and beyond.

Call Us: 800.669.5613