If you love the outdoors and love doing physical work to earn your living, then cutting wood and logging may be an ideal business for you. Having a talent for using a chainsaw is not all that's ...

It was the same old story year after year. Jim Hurst would gather his employees for the lumber mill's annual meeting in a big equipment building next to the mill. Each year, Owens & Hurst's co-owner ...

"Some of the pieces were rather large to try to heft into the kind of vertical rack recommended by Ole Wik, so I devised a much simpler temporary version." Just over a year ago we featured an Alaskan ...

As a small crew worked last week cutting down timber in a spruce-fir forest south of Collbran on Grand Mesa, a rain cloud scudded overhead and moistened the scene. It was an isolated shower, though, ...

A study published in Environmental Research Letters indicates Amazonian forests probably can't provide enough timber to meet current longterm demands. This is true even if better logging practices are ...

PORTLAND – Bush Administration plans to boost logging in Northwest national forests have collided with low timber prices blamed on the housing slump. The U.S. Forest Service is running short of money ...

THOMASVILLE — Thomas County commissioners have approved a new timber harvesting ordinance that could make loggers who damage roads pay for those repairs. Under the new rule, which is being adopted ...

Minnesota Forest Industries executive vice president Rick Horton gave me a strong counterpoint to the views expressed in my Oct. 31 column, which highlighted the charge by some retired Department of ...