by Web Editor | Oct 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
Sawmills in the south were hit hard by the recession. A steep decline in the housing market accelerated plant closings and job losses. However, new research shows good news for the timber industry. A nearly $200 million Weyerhaeuser project in Dierks, Arkansas could...
by Web Editor | Apr 15, 2015 | Editor's Blog
Written By: Jessica Johnson On my second to last day in Maine, I was fortunate enough to visit the continental U.S.’s northern most point: Fort Kent, a beautiful, vibrant small town. It’s crazy to think that while I was stomping around in snow in front of the First...
by Web Editor | Dec 22, 2014 | News
By Wendy Farrand T’was the DAY before Christmas, when all through the woods, Not a creature was stirring, all asleep like they should. The skidders were parked on the landing with care, In hopes that their operators soon would be there. The cutters were nestled all...
by Web Editor | Oct 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
Seniors studying forestry and environmental conservation and students from the gas and diesel class at Jefferson-Lewis BOCES Howard G. Sackett Technical Center got the chance to experience sitting in the driver’s seat of cutting-edge logging equipment — all through...
by Web Editor | Jul 11, 2014 | News, News/PR
It’s no secret that logging crews are aging, and that experienced loggers are struggling to attract young people to the profession. Even NPR has picked up the story, reporting on June 16th about the looming shortage of loggers in the American workforce. But not all...
