September / October 2025

2025 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year

Working within and outside the forest to benefit all of industry, VanDusen Timber Corp. in east Texas, led by Graham VanDusen, is the 2025 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year.

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2025 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year

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        I first met 2025 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year operator Graham VanDusen when he was still in college at Baylor, and I was fresh out of school getting my feet wet as a logging reporter. I thought it was so interesting—the son of a timberman, who clearly loved being outside and spent summers running equipment— getting a degree in finance. Especially since it seemed relatively obvious he was thinking he would join the family business. I did the story on the company—Cypress River Logging, a separate entity the family blocked out from its timber and land buying business, VanDusen Timber—and wished them all well.

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            2025 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year

            With a head for numbers, and an educational backround in finance, entrepreneur Graham VanDusen took his Father’s timber company and brought it into the next generation.

            Story by: Jessica Johnson

            HALLSVILLE, Tex. — Graham VanDusen, 33, claims he’s not a logger, just a businessman who grew up in a timber family: “I like being outside,” he says. “I’m just a businessman that owns a logging business, and I’m not going to get up in a machine and run it. I can, and I did in college, but it’s been 10 years since I’ve run any equipment. I love the business, but I let my loggers be the loggers. They are the professional loggers, they do all the work. We give them good timber to cut, and we give them the resources to cut that timber, but they’re the loggers.”

            VanDusen Timber Corp. is the 28th logging company to win the national award Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year award, which began in 1998 to honor loggers large and small across the nation who are standout operators and also work to improve the industry and their communities. VanDusen Timber is the second business from Texas to win it.

            As part of the next generation to run the family business, Graham VanDusen has operated with an eye toward the future of the industry with his activism working with the Texas Forestry Assn. and Texas Logging Council on several key industry issues, in addition to supporting multiple local hometown groups and organizations.

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