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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,...

F&W Forestry Expands Operations In Maine

F&W Forestry Expands Operations In MaineF&W Forestry Services, Inc., one of the nation’s oldest and largest forest management and consulting firms operating 19 offices across the country, is...

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New From Tigercat: 1055D Forwarder

New From Tigercat: 1055D Forwarder

New From Tigercat: 1055D ForwarderDuring the 2025 FOREXPO in mid-June, Tigercat rolled out the newest forwarder in its lineup, the 1055D, 15-tonne machine designed to be highly configurable to meet...

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LIGNA Hosts Forwarder Competition 

LIGNA Hosts Forwarder Competition 

LIGNA Hosts Forwarder Competition  The 15th Lower Saxony (State) Forwarder Championship was held on May 29 during the LIGNA show at the Exposition Grounds in Hannover, Germany. Ponsse and John Deere...

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Upgrade From John Deere:  Knuckleboom Loaders

Upgrade From John Deere: Knuckleboom Loaders

John Deere introduces the latest updates to its knuckleboom loader lineup, including visibility enhancements. Aiming to increase operator safety and accuracy, the 2022 models of 437E and 337E knuckleboom loaders feature a newly designed front window by removing the external mesh guard and replacing it with a clear, polycarbonate window for uninterrupted view…

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New Ponsse Products

New Ponsse Products

Ponsse has launched a series of new products to improve productivity in sustainable harvesting, including the Ponsse Scorpion Giant harvester and the Ponsse Mammoth forwarder. The Scorpion Giant harvester adds to the Scorpion product range, which was completely upgraded in 2021. It was developed to have more tractive effort, which helps the harvester to be agile even in challenging conditions, including snow, steep slopes and soft terrain. The Scorpion…

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Komatsu To Acquire Swedish Silviculture Attachment Manufacturer

Komatsu To Acquire Swedish Silviculture Attachment Manufacturer

Through Komatsu Forest AB, a wholly owned subsidiary in Sweden, Komatsu Ltd. is going to acquire Bracke Forest AB, headquartered in Bräcke, Sweden, which develops, manufactures, and sells application-specific attachments for silviculture. Tree planting is expected to expand worldwide for lumber production and environmental concerns, such as the promotion of carbon neutrality. At the same time, the need for mechanization is growing, especially because tree planting is labor-intensive work, with an increase in planting in remote areas, and a decrease in the workforce…

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