October 2026 Brookhaven, Miss. — The Smith family has cut timber in this corner of southwest Mississippi for three generations, and each has been guided by the same conviction that land stewardship matters equally as much as the wood it produces. Read MoreSubscribe...
September 2026 WARREN, Ark. — Clint Horn, 54, didn’t start his career in logging. After studying statistics and earning forestry degrees from Mississippi State and Penn State, Horn went to work in procurement in Arkansas. He started his own company, Timber Logistics,...
August 2026 PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — Mississippi’s Drew Sullivan, 46, is the owner of Performance Logging, Inc. The third generation logger grew up with a love for logging; he inherited the sawdust in his veins from his late father, Garry, and grandfather. Drew worked...
July 2026 GALLATIN, Tenn. — Boze Logging Inc. came into being in 1985 when owner and founder Don Boze took a leap of faith. Boze had farmed row crops and tobacco for eight years after high school, cutting a few logs each winter with an old 674 International tractor...
June 2026 MAPLESVILLE, Ala.—There’s a sticky note on Joe Parnell’s computer that reads, “Hope Is Not A Strategy.” For the President of Parnell Inc., a diversified timber and farming business based here in one form or another since 1962, the message is a daily reminder...
May 2026 MONROEVILLE, Ala. — It was 25 years ago that John Ayres stood with a pink slip in one hand and in the other, $2,250 in cash from the sale of his old GMC pickup. He was barely a decade into his career as a procurement forester, and he was now on the precipice...
