Lumber Prices Continue Soaring
Lumber prices rose by more than 250 percent in the last year, according to Business Insider. The National Association of Homebuilders says the increases...
Bill Would Let Teens Train for Logging in Family Businesses
Maine’s congressional delegation has reintroduced legislation to allow owners of small logging businesses to train teenage family members to work in the industry.
The Future...
Wood-Mizer Introduces ‘Cookie’ Attachment for Portable Sawmills
Wood-Mizer introduces the CookieMizer clamping jig for safely and efficiently sawing wood ‘cookies’ — slices of wood from a log round — with a...
Morbark System Monitors Vibration to Prevent Damage
Morbark has introduced a new, patent-pending VTECTION® System option for their 3000, 3400, and 6400 series Wood Hog Horizontal Grinders. The VTECTION system monitors...
Tigercat 875 Logger Advances to E Series
Tigercat has introduced the E series of its logger machines, a multi-purpose carrier with two boom options for loading or processing applications.
The Tigercat 875E...
West Salem Titan Grinds 50 Metric Tons per Hour
The West Salem Machinery 5472 Titan horizontal grinding system processes large diameter stumps, round wood, branches, storm-damaged timber, land clearing debris, and other wood...
Lawsuit Opposes Logging on Tongass
A lawsuit filed last year in federal court in Alaska seeks to block the former Trump administration from rolling back curbs on logging in...
Impact of California Fires Will Be Long-Lasting
Increasingly large and devastating wildfires have altered California’s iconic forests — altered them for perhaps centuries to come, according to some experts.
Exacerbated by decades...
Fire Relief Fund Aids Oregon Loggers
The Oregon Logging Conference has launched a ‘fire relief fund’ for loggers who suffered losses caused by catastrophic forest fires in 2020. The organization...
Home Builders Applaud Canadian Lumber Tariff Cuts
A Commerce Dept. decision to reduce duties on Canadian softwood lumber shipments into the U.S. represents “a positive step” toward boosting housing starts and...