Sawing Lumber for Cabins in Michigan
Steve Kesti, the owner of Backwoods Lumber located in the Upper Peninsula Recalls first being interested in woodworking as far back as childhood. “Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to build a cabin in the woods,” said Steve. Carpentry continued to play a role in his life while growing up. His father […]
Husband and Wife Team Getting the Jobs Done Together on Michigan Upper Peninsula
GARDEN, Michigan – At some juncture in a marriage, a wife might suggest to her husband that he works many long hours — or...
Michigan Loggers Add Tigercat Track Harvester with New Head
LAND O’LAKES, Wisconsin — Mark and Jason Nordine recently took ownership of a new Tigercat track harvester for their logging business. Thanks in part...
New York Logger Completes Transition to Cut-To-Length
BINGHAMTON, New York — Bill Hopkins is 43, so he probably has a couple of decades left in the logging business. However, he already...
Project Shows Low Value Tamarack Is a Marketable Product
By June Breneman for the Natural Resources Research Institute
From wildfires to drought, U.S. forests face multiple threats. In Minnesota, where the forest products industry...
Falling Tree Injures Two Loggers
Background
On a partly cloudy fall morning in the south-central U.S., two workers were topping trees on a logging job and had just moved to...