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HOLLAND, Ky.— Veteran Kentucky logger Eddie Rich, Jr., 65, has built a family legacy on the foundation handed down to him by his father. Working in a lot of higher elevation hardwood stands, Rich and his small crew keep things simple and traditional, felling big timber with chain saws and setting chokers to drag logs uphill by cable winch. Rich likes to keep overhead down by maintaining older machines; even after accumulating considerable operational hours, his Deere skidder and Tigercat loader still get the job done.
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Industry News Roundup
Kentucky’s State Forests Attain Certification For Sustainable Management
Six state forest properties (Green River, Kentenia, Kentucky Ridge, Pennyrile, Peterson, and Tygarts) owned by the Kentucky Division of Forestry (KDF) and four state forest properties jointly-owned by KDF and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (Big...
Unwanted Seeds Could Save Badly Burned Lost Pines In Texas
The unlikely heroes in healing the great pine forest of Central Texas are seeds that no one wanted. The Texas A&M Forest Service was making plans to dump more than a half-ton of loblolly pine seeds into a landfill when the most destructive wildfire in state...
Virginia’s Mighty Chestnut May Yet Return To Glory
One hundred years ago the Blue Ridge Mountains were covered in American chestnut trees, which made up roughly a quarter of the canopy. The chestnut blight, an imported fungal infection first noticed in New York in 1904, had by the '50s spread throughout Appalachia and...
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