March 13, 2012
The single factor that brought so many loggers into the business for decades into the 80’s, was opportunity to make very good money, and as a contractor earn a profit commensurate with the risk involved in the business. Certainly there are...
February 8, 2012
The most interesting presentation we’ve seen recently occurred during the recently completed Associated Oregon Loggers Annual Meeting was the preliminary report from the WSRI’s (Wood Supply Research Institute’s) Don Taylor on the...
January 18, 2012
During the past several months, hardwood exports to China have dropped, and while the quietly expressed issue seemed to revolve around the ambrosia beetle, there are other issues also in play, not the least of which is timing, and the recent tight...
November 30, 2011
Each year we attend a couple of safety conferences, one of which, the Associated Oregon Loggers Statewide Logging Safety Conference, we attended a few weeks ago. The underlying message from any of the safety meetings, whether they be statewide or...
October 31, 2011
At the end of September, we flew across the country to the Midwest for the first time in several years to attend the 17th annual meeting of the American Loggers Council, catch a story with outgoing ALC President, Matt Jensen, and spend some time...
September 26, 2011
This past month we drove to a job site in Northern Idaho, which grew gorgeous trees, very healthy bugs (with a bad taste when you inhale them), and gave me a fine coating of dust that still clings to my back bumper after having driven some 600 miles...
September 9, 2011
We’re heading to the 17th annual American Loggers Council (ALC) meeting in Wisconsin in late September, in no small part because from the beginning we’ve felt the ALC serves a vital role in the future of logging, and as an independent...
June 29, 2011
The ongoing din and chatter in the air the past several years sluggish economy has been an active and boisterous discussion over “creating opportunity,” and “creating jobs,” from the state to the federal legislatures.
May 6, 2011
Several hundred loggers, foresters, and industry specialists assembled at the Mirabeau Park hotel in Spokane Valley, Washington for the 73rd annual intermountain Logging Conference (iLC), under generally sunny skies, nice because many had traveled...
March 23, 2011
Loggers from all over the state convened at the valley river Inn Eugene for the 41st Annual Associated Oregon Loggers Annual Meeting. Some 350 were in attendance, many arriving on Thursday to participate in the Western Region Council on forest...
