Team Safe Trucking, a provider of training solutions for the forestry transportation, has released the name of its new training program for drivers wanting to obtain a CDL specifically to drive forest products following the…
The wood basket of the world, suffering a shortage in experienced loggers has resulted in Coastal Pines Technical College in Waycross, Ga., creating a curriculum designed to teach high schoolers the basics of forestry and…
Doosan executives and equipment dealers from the region were present to celebrate the opening of the second Doosan parts distribution center in North America. The event included a guided tour of the new 57,000 sq….
A 28-year program to monitor logging Best Management Practices (BMPs) implementation on east Texas timber harvest sites shows overall 93.8% BMP implementation in 2018 across all land ownerships. That’s a solid improvement in the last…
John Deere Construction and Forestry is decreasing its annual JDLink™ Ultimate offering prices, providing customers with an affordable, streamlined data solution that boosts productivity and maximizes uptime. Additionally, the division is consolidating JDLink Ultimate Forestry…
Background: In the southeastern U.S., a logging crew was select cutting grade logs. Most trees were felled with a three-wheeled feller-buncher, but over-sized trees and timber in the SMZ’s were manually felled. One employee—the skidder…
Komatsu America Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire TimberPro, Inc. Established in 2002, TimberPro is a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of purpose-built forest machines and attachments, offering tracked feller-bunchers and harvesters, forwarders, wheeled harvesters, and…
Over the past two years, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have been modeling to understand the costs and benefits of thinning forests…
