May 2025 ROANOKE RAPIDS, NC — Ryan Medlin, 48, spent 15 years working as a procurement forester for Coastal Lumber Co., first at their pine mill in Suffolk, Va., then at their hardwood mill in Weldon, NC. That’s where Medlin served most of his 15 year Coastal career,...
April 2025 WASHINGTON, GA — “Walk softly and carry a big stick,” the old adage advises, as articulated by our 26th President, the Rough Rider himself, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. Down in Georgia, where Roosevelt’s mother spent her childhood, the Thornton boys—brothers...
March 2025 JEFFERSON, Tex. – All evidence to the contrary, Graham VanDusen is not a logger. “I’m just a guy who happens to own a logging business,” he insists. “I like to say that we are a timber company with a logging business. The timber side of it always comes...
February 2025 HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas — Fifth generation Arkansas logger Greg Bates, continues to carry on a family tradition passed down to him by his ancestors on both sides of his family, including his father Haskel, left, who at 85 still drives a skidder for his...
January 2025 Brothers Ben and Jay Walton are partners and co-owners at Big Bend Timber Services, LLC, based in Monticello, Fla. When Southern Loggin’ Times caught up with Big Bend in November, the Walton brothers had two of their five crews engaged in storm cleanup...
December 2024 Missouri logger Isaac Dotson, like much of the rest of his family, diversifies his business, Crooked River Enterprises, by working on natural disaster cleanup/salvage jobs wherever and whenever needed all around the country. This fall and winter he’s...
