December 2025 ELBA, Ala. — At Alabama’s Pea River Timber, company founder James “Macky” Bruce, 78, left, and his son Wally, 51, right, have built on the foundation of a family legacy in forest products. Today their business is guided by a commitment to transparency...
November 2025 GLASGOW, Ky. — At 30, Hunter Clark is younger than most of his peers in the forestry business, but age, they say, is just a number. Clark is well versed in modern logging practices and in logging machinery—both as an operator and as an equipment dealer...
October 2025 JONESBORO, La. — Life has a funny way of working out sometimes. When I first moved to Ruston, deep in the heart of the piney woods of north Louisiana, I knew I was going to see my fair share of loggers and foresters around. Three houses down from mine is...
September 2025 Manning, SC— Ken Holladay founded Santee Pole & Piling Inc. in 1989 after leaving the pole mill business to build his own hybrid operation. He had spent years buying poles in eastern South Carolina’s coastal plain before purchasing a smallscale pole...
August 2025 FRANKLIN, Ky. — Larry Wood, 70, has been around long enough to remember when sawmill safety was more suggestion than standard. His grandfather, who was born in 1898, logged the hills of northern Tennessee with mules and crosscut saws. Back then, the rule...
July 2025 JACKSONVILLE, NC — Once upon a time, and perhaps it doesn’t feel like it was so long ago to those who were involved, there were as many as 11 different Goodson family logging businesses, each one a separate and independent company, operating in this part of...
