February 2026 CARTHAGE, Miss.—You can’t keep a good man down, the old adage (and a really excellent Alabama song) tell us. Want an example? Look no further than Lee Powers, owner of Powers Timber, LLC. Powers, 36, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when he was just...
January 2026 BATCHELOR, La. — Even by his wife and closest friends, Louisiana logger Jimmy Gaspard is better known by a different name: “They call me Tater,” he introduces himself, and so, Tater it is. Read MoreSubscribe " Inside This Issue COVER: Call Him...
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...
