June 2025 WESTMINSTER, SC — The world might not have enough wood products if all the loggers’ sons had listened when their fathers told them to go to college instead of going to the woods. Thank God for that. “Somebody’s gotta do this work,” observes C.D. Laws, 27,...
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...
