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Vol. 46, No. 2

(Founded in 1972—Our 533rd Consecutive Issue)

F E AT U R E S

February 2017 A Hatton-Brown Publication

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Little Logging Big Time Success

Historical Series Central Louisiana Timber Empire

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Nicholas Sholar, left, and and his brother-in-law Kyle Kornegay, right, work as equal partners in Woodland Logging, each overseeing a crew. They started the company 10 years ago after Kyle bought a crew from his father. Story begins on Page 8. (David Abbott photo)

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SOUTHERN STUMPIN’

By David Abbott • Managing Editor • Ph. 334-834-1170 • Fax: 334-834-4525 • E-mail: david@hattonbrown.com

In Love And Logging f you haven’t checked the calendar, it’s February. That means a few things—the Superbowl; the return of The Walking Dead from its holiday hiatus; and, of course, Valentine’s Day, for all you love birds out there. In honor of Cupid’s month, I decided to focus this month’s column on the topic of love in logging.

Running a logging business can take a toll on a marriage. It can involve long hours, stress and financial worries. And yet, there are those who really seem to have this thing figured out. Most loggers’ wives at least help with the paperwork, but in some cases, the spouse takes a more active role. In those cases, the life partners function also as business partners, sharing in all the myriad ups and downs and headaches and triumphs. I chose three such couples and asked them how they balance their relationship with their business. Their advice follows.

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Mitchell and Wanda Presley The owners of Mid Star Timber Harvesting in Toxey, Ala. offered their thoughts on the subject: “For normal relationships and marriage to exist and thrive long-term is quite a challenge in today’s environment. Add in a hectic schedule coupled with a demanding business partnership and you have the potential for the perfect storm. Wanda and I don’t know what other couples do to manage through the challenges brought on by the uniqueness of the business partnership. Ours was and is a work in progress. We identified a few ground rules along the way that apply for business and relationship.

1) We don’t try to determine winner vs. loser in a disagreement.

2) We understand each one of us has differing degrees of knowledge concerning the various segments of the business.

3) We trust each other.

4) We agree that respectfully challenging each other is healthy for the relationship and improves decision-making.

5) We accept accountability for our decisions and actions.

6) We try to establish consensus—one may not totally agree but moves forward with the decision with plan B in mind. If it doesn’t work, adjust; do not say ‘I told you so.’

7) Keep each other informed.

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off, a spontaneous event or short trip.

Family brings additional challenges. Our boys and daughters-in-law work for us. They have responsibilities and are expected to stay on top of their game. There are times when things go astray and tempers flare. Wanda and I are openminded and encourage openness. This allows issues to come to the table. They’re not always pleasant but they get heard and addressed.

One thing we have done in the past, and are working on trying to improve upon, is family time, a time when we as a family can get together and enjoy a meal, make plans for a trip, talk about business ventures and look down the road for a bright spot.”

Bob And Kim Wall This couple owns Wall Timber in Osyka, Miss.

Mrs. Wall offered the following: “Bob and I have worked together in the logging industry for some 29 years.

As of June 5, we will be married 36 years. There has been good and bad with those years, but as a whole we have been a good team in business.

I think this is due to the fact that we are so different. Bob is fearless in business. His attitude is, ‘If they can do it, so can we, but better,’ so he has had to drag me into new ventures. I am the cautious one. I have to do all types of homework and research. Bob can’t stand the office. He likes to be outside and doing; hours on a dozer is where he does his best thinking! So that makes it kind of like his area and my area because I love the office.

About three years ago, I hired a truck driver and he (also) hired a driver so we had two new employees with only one position open. Bob realized that we needed to divide the work even more so. He gave me the trucking and he took the logging. Yes, I realized just what short end of the deal I got with 27 log trucks! However, this has worked really well for us.

Each morning, we discuss what each other is facing in their division and make decisions together for the most part. Small decisions are made by the one over that area. With all the equipment and employees, we don’t run every little thing by each other due to the trust we have in the other one’s ability to make decisions. I have to turn to Bob about some mechanical issues with trucks I might not understand and he turns to me for information from the office.

One of the hardest things in working together all this time has been separating personal and business. If you disagree in business, you can’t take it home and be mad at the other in your personal matters.”

Heather Gates and Brian Jones This young couple have partnered together in their company, PSC&C, LLC, in Lexington, SC, for 13 years. They are also raising a 7-year-old daughter together.

Heather says: “People ask how we live together and work together. It’s hard, we fuss, but it comes naturally for us. When you love each other, you do what you have to do. We have to stay on the same page.

Brian looks for timber tracts and I run the shop and handle all equipment acquisitions, contracts and office work. We have two crews and we both fill in on trucks and equipment when needed. Our daughter comes to the office with us after school and she knows more about this equipment than most men. Sometimes when we have to work late, we do her homework here.

It’s a busy schedule. If Brian and I don’t see each other during the day, we catch up on things at home at night and plan for the next day. I think it makes our relationship stronger.”

Brian adds: “We’re a very family oriented company. Our employees are like family. We hang out together on weekends, we all take a vacation together around the Fourth of July. That’s the dynamic we have that makes it work for us. We never work weekends or holidays. We’re committed to always making time for our family.”

Going To Sweden?

Have you heard of Elmia, the massive logging equipment show in Sweden? Touted as “the whole world’s forestry fair,” Elmia is held every four years. I attended for the first time in 2013 and had a great time. That summer, the show boasted some 50,000 visitors and 500 exhibitors from 50 countries. This year’s edition is scheduled for June 7-10.

I’m planning to go back this year, and I am actually serving as an international representative for the show. If you’re interested in going, contact me and I will try to answer your questions as best as I can. You can also check out the web site, www.

SLT elmia.se/en/wood/. Hope to see you there!

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Fifty-Fifty ■ Brothers-in-law Kornegay and Sholar carry on a family tradition.

By David Abbott BEULAVILLE, NC t might be difficult to fath★ om that a full decade has passed since 2007, and yet in January, partners and brothers-inlaw Kyle Kornegay, 33, and Nicholas Sholar, 35, marked the 10year anniversary of the company they co-own, Woodland Logging, Inc. Like many of his industry peers, Kyle is a second generation logger who went to work for his dad, Gerald Kornegay, straight out of high school. Sholar, who is married to Gerald’s daughter Beverly, and Kyle’s brother Timothy also worked for the elder Kornegay, with Kyle and Timothy each supervising one of the four crews their dad owned at that time.

One night Gerald came home at the end of a particularly rough day and announced that he wanted to downsize his company, to reduce his own headaches. He offered to sell Kyle and Timothy the crews they were already running for him.

survive,” he says. He immediately approached Sholar with the proposal, and they became full partners, 50/50. Kornegay supervises one crew and Sholar oversees the other.

As many can attest, going into business with family can be a dicey proposition. Overall, though, this partnership has more ups than downs, Kornegay reports. “If you’re in business with someone, you’re going to have disagreements from time to time,” he says. “Each of us has certain things we do and we don’t cross over into each other’s areas.”

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Financing was available at the time, so Kyle bought one crew and Timothy bought another, while Gerald retained two crews and they all went on their separate paths. In the 10 years since, Woodland Logging has expanded to two crews of its own.

Kyle knew right away that he didn’t want to run the business completely on his own. “I wanted somebody I could rely on, that if I wanted to take a vacation, I wouldn’t have to worry about the job, because it could still run and

The partners oversee two crews, one of which includes a chipping component.

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The partners typically run their crews separately, but when Southern Loggin’ Times visited in November, they had both together, working on different sections of the same tract.

Equipment on Kyle’s crew includes a ’14 Tigercat T250D track loader with Rotobec grapple and tagalong CSI 264 delimber, ’05 Tigercat 860C feller-buncher with 5702 feller head and ’12 John Deere 748H skidder.

Nicholas’ crew uses a ’10 Tigercat

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The crews haul a varied mix of pine and hardwood products to multiple outlets.

250B trailer mounted loader with CSI 264 Max delimber, ’12 Deere 748H skidder, ’09 Tigercat 860C Tigercat feller-buncher with 5400 feller head, and ’15 Bandit 3590 microchipper. They also have a ’06 Tigercat 860C shovel machine when needed for either crew. Woodland runs three company-owned trucks, Kenworth T800s from 2011, ’12 and ’13, pulling McLendon, Big John, Pitts and Evans log trailers and ITI chip vans.

Woodland also has a bullpen of extra equipment for what was a third crew, a hardwood shovel job, before market conditions mothballed it last year. In all, he estimates that the company has $2.5 million invested in machinery. “I try not to think about it because if I thought about it I’d probably just sell all this stuff,” he laughs. His partner Sholar has similar thoughts sometimes. “When I called and asked him if he wanted to be in the Southern Loggin’ Times, his response was, ‘Do you mean in a story or in the classified section?’”

Kornegay relates. Equipment dealers are CTW Equipment Co. in Williamston for Tigercat and James River Equipment in Greenville for John Deere.

Both crews use 860C Tigercat track machines to handle felling duties.

For maintenance, Woodland has its own shop and also relies on two local independent mechanics: Nathan Carawan at NC Service and Repair in Albertson and Carl Dunn at Pop’s Mechanics LLC in Stokes.

An annual expenditure of $110,000 for parts and repairs is about average for Woodland, Kornegay figures. For tractor tires, the crews use Firestone—30.5 inside, 24.5 on outside

Likewise, both men placed John Deere 748H skidders on their respective crews.

when running duals. For the tracked machines, Kornegay says Berco tracks are the best. The crews change oil every 400 hours and perform other service to dealer specifications, tracking hours in a note pad. The company buys Xtreme AW68 hydraulic oil and Mobil Delvac motor oil from Brown’s Service Center in Kenansville. All filters come from Coastal Diesel Service in

New Bern. The partners prefer Parker hydraulic hoses from Hunnings, Inc., also in New Bern. Woodland has a trailer equipped with a hose machine and a few spare parts, kept on the job site whenever a crew is working very far from the shop.

Kornegay uses a Dodge 5500 truck with IMT service body and 7,500 lb. crane on his crew. Sholar

The two crews together: back row, from left, Kyle Kornegay, Brandon Jarman, Victor Morales-Tejaba, Franklin Davis, Rusion Pickett, Felipe Campuzano, Nicholas Sholar; kneeling, from left, Gregorio Majia, Moses Rapalo, Leroy McCrimmon; inset, truck driver Joy Craft

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Woodland uses a mix of contractors and company owned trucks.

CTW Equipment in Williamston supplies Woodland’s Tigercat needs.

uses a Ford F550 truck with IMT service body and 8,000 lb. crane on his crew.

Woodland has a fuel terminal at its shop with three tanks: 16,000 gallons of off-road diesel storage, 8,000 gallons of highway diesel and 1,000 gallons of gas. Country Mart in Bethel delivers fuel to the shop.

The three trucks and the track loader all require DEF. Kornegay reports that fuel consumption is the same on these machines as the nonDEF units. “We have had some sensor issues on the trucks, but all in all it has not been a nightmare.”

Kornegay and Sholar: “These guys are top of the line at what they do and have the grit to make these jobs work,” he says. His relationship with the family goes way back. He bought timber for Gerald when the elder Kornegay logged for Squires Timber Co. in Kelly, NC. When Marshburn and others formed TriState, Woodland put a crew on with the new company very early on.

The crews work mostly natural stands with a pine/hardwood mix.

Woodland hauls its pine pulpwood to International Paper Riegelwood. Hardwood pulpwood and

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Air1 is the preferred DEF brand.

On the chipper, knives have to be changed after every 18-20 loads, which is more or less every day.

Obviously the crews keep several spare sets, sending used knives to Union Grove Saw and Knife, Goldsboro division, to be sharpened.

Simonds is the preferred brand.

Markets Forester Charlie Marshburn with Tri-State Land & Timber in Rocky Point keeps the Woodland crews busy. Marshburn has high praise for

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hardwood and pine chips go to Enviva Pellets Sampson in Faison.

Pine plywood and chip-n-saw go to Georgia-Pacific in Dudley. Sometimes they send chip-n-saw to West Fraser’s Armour mill in Riegelwood. Hardwood logs go to Josey Lumber Co. in Scotland Neck, Turnbull Lumber Co. in Elizabethtown, and Jerry G. Williams & Sons Lumber in Smithfield. Some pine grade logs go to Lampe & Malphrus Lumber Co. in Smithfield.

Quota, Kornegay says, is not usually a big problem. The mills just get full, and usually take wood on a

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first come, first serve basis. That means that the early bird gets the worm. “A lot of times you better get out there Monday through Thursday because by Friday, the mills won’t buy wood unless it’s rained a lot that week,” Kornegay advises. He adds that the Woodland crews were out of work for two weeks when Hurricane Matthew flooded the area last October.

When IP Riegelwood converted to 100% fluff and softwood pulp last year, it meant Woodland had lost its main hardwood pulp outlet.

The track loader is Woodland’s first in-woods machine to use DEF.

Sholar and Kornegay sent their hardwood shovel crew north for a few months, working up highway 58 in Virginia from Emporia over to the coast and down highway 64 to Greenville, hauling to three Enviva mills in North Carolina and Virginia. By August they brought that crew back to the home turf and finally opted to park those machines, but hope to start it back up soon.

Finding a consistent hardwood pulp market ranks among their biggest concerns, Kornegay says, just ahead of insurance cost, especially trucking and fire insurance.

Still, with Enviva buying more hardwood, things can only get better, he hopes.

Crew Sholar and Kornegay conduct a safety meeting with both crews and truck drivers in the woods on the first Monday of every month.

All crew members and drivers are trained in CPR and first aid, and a first aid kit and spill kit stay in the service trucks. The owners are Pro Logger certified through the North Carolina Forestry Assn., as required to haul to the mills.

Agents Josh Adams and Cindy Smith at Southeastern Agency Group in Greensboro cover the company’s insurance needs. It is becoming increasingly difficult to get truck drivers insured, Kornegay admits. “When I will call and ask them to run a driver, half of them are ok, and the other half they say no,” he says. “Cindy says yes or no, she can’t tell me why, but they obviously have something on their record.”

On Kornegay’s crew, Franklin Davis mans the cutter, Victor Morales-Tejaba runs the skidder, and Kornegay operates the track loader. On Sholar’s job, Gregorio Majia and Brandon Jarman are the skidder drivers, Leroy McCrimmon runs the cutter and Sholar mans the loader. Truck drivers are James Hill, Earl Barrow, and Joy Craft. Craft is a little bit famous; she used to drive a truck for Bobby Goodson on the Swamp Logger TV series. Woodland also employs several contract truckers, including Moses Rapalo, Felipe Campuzano, Rusion Pickett and Roy Faircloth.

Sholar and Beverly have a son, Garrett, 9, and a daughter, Mary Katherine, who will be 5 in May. Kornegay and Tracey, his wife of 12 years, have a daughter, Madison, 8, and a son, Parker, 4. Both Sholar and Kornegay like to fish off the coast in their free time. SLT

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The New Normal ■ Little Logging gets big results in North Carolina.

The biggest part of Little's equipment stable is John Deere, purchased from James River Equipment in Mt. Gilead.

By Jay Donnell OAKBORO, NC hen Michael Little start★ ed logging right out of high school with his cousin, Scott Broadway, he knew he eventually wanted to run his own business. After seven years of working with his cousin, he did just that.

At the ripe age of 25 Michael took out some loans and started his logging business with used equipment. He experienced a lot of breakdowns in the beginning, as most loggers do when they’re using older machines, but he learned a lot in those days. Michael started out by running a chain saw for his cousin, but eventually worked his way up to operating a skidder. “My cousin was good to me and taught

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me a lot,” Michael says. “He still has his own company.”

Michael started out with one crew mostly thinning pulpwood, but things changed pretty quickly for him.

Today, Michael, 34, runs two chipping crews. One crew focuses on clean chipping while the other produces fuel chips and pulpwood.

The crews only pull out about two loads of sawlogs a week. It’s all about chipping for Little Logging, Inc. and Michael wouldn’t have it any other way. His company likes the stability of the markets in North Carolina and there is always work to be done.

“I love doing the clean chipping,” Michael says. “I like it better than anything else.”

Michael’s wife, Ashlee, is coowner of the business. She and Michael met when they were in high school, but didn’t start dating until she moved back to Oakboro to teach after college. They have four children and have their hands full running the business and raising a family.

Both crews use Morbark chippers, a 23L for clean chipping and a 40/36 on the fuel job.

Operations Versatility is one of the reasons for the steadfastness of Little Logging. The two crews combine to produce around 60 loads of chips a week and 40 loads of mostly pulpwood. Little Logging’s clean chipping crew takes its chips to Arauco in Moncure, NC. Fuel chips go to Sonoco in Hartsville, SC and Domtar in Bennettsville, SC. Southern Loggin’ Times visited Little Logging’s clean chipping crew as they were working on a 260-acre tract. Little Logging didn’t get into chipping until about two and a half years ago. One of the crews started fuel chipping and then it expanded from there.

The clean chipping crew stays in North Carolina and the fuel chipping crew does a lot of work in South Carolina. When they’re moving on to a new tract the company will occasionally have to build their own roads with a John Deere dozer.

Little Logging makes sure to leave a tract in pristine condition. “Depending on the landowner we’ll have to do all the BMP requirements and put in water bars,” Michael explains.

Little contracts for Canal Wood.

Greg Lowry works with the clean chips crew and Todd Stubbs works with the other crew.

Little Logging has 16 employees and they start working every day at 7 a.m. and leave at 5 p.m. Sometimes they’ll stay until 6 p.m. if there is breakdown or employees want to try to get in an extra load. They work on a production bonus. The clean chipping crew makes a bonus at 45 loads and the fuel chipping crew gets a

Peterson 4800 debarker precedes the Morbark on the clean chip crew.

From left: Luis Ramirez, Carlos Gonzalez, Alfonso Gomez, Melvin Bryd, James Mathis, David Rorie, Daryl Little, Anthony Smith, Blake Broadway, Chad Mills and Michael Little

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Little Logging runs eight trucks: four Peterbilts, three Freightliners and a Kenworth.

Little and his wife Ashlee both use JDLink to monitor machine performance.

bonus at 40. Workers receive $100 when they hit their target and $10 for every load after that.

Employees must fill out a formal application in order to be considered for hiring. They are granted time off for personal time and sickness and they get time off during the main holidays.

Ashlee works as the company’s CFO. She handles all of the bookkeeping and keeps a close eye on the bottom line. Ashlee also plays a big role in getting parts from the dealer to the jobsite. She also han-

23L chipper and a 2012 Peterson 4800E debarker help produce the 60 plus loads of chips every week.

The fuel chipping crew runs a 2014 643K feller-buncher, 2014 437D loader, 2016 648L skidder and a 2014 Morbark 40/36 chipper.

The chippers and debarker are greased three times a week. Most of the other equipment is greased weekly. The company uses Rotella 15W40 oil and it gets changed every 300 hours. Michael prefers Primex tires. Little Logging has worked with Thomas Tires for years

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dles taxes, insurance, trucking and basically everything involving any paperwork. “I couldn’t do this without her,” Michael says.

Equipment Little Logging operates a large fleet of logging and trucking equipment. Most of the logging equipment comes from John Deere. The clean chipping crew’s equipment includes two 2016 643L fellerbunchers, two 2014 648H skidders and a 437C loader. A 2015 Morbark

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and also uses them for his truck tires. “They’ve held up better,” he explains. “You really get the full life out of them compared to other tires where you have 30% tread left on a tire and it gives out on you.”

The new 2016 feller-bunchers have been an excellent addition to the operation. “We love the new cutters,” Michael says. “The visibility is great.”

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changed. Michael and Ashlee decided to lean on the expertise of Chris Brooks, Forestry Sales Manager from James River Equipment in Mount Gilead. “JD financial just made things easier,” Michael says. “From there it just sparked a relationship with their parts department and they’ve been extremely good to me.”

The JDLink technology platform comes standard on all new models of John Deere equipment, so the team at James River can watch over the performance of the company’s fleet. Michael and Ashlee both have the JDLink app on their phones so that they can monitor equipment health as well. They also receive email alerts.

Michael used to contract his trucking, but it didn’t suit him. “I don’t like to depend on someone else to haul my wood,” he says.

Little Logging runs a variety of trucks including one Kenworth, four Peterbilts and three 2016 Freightliners, pulling ITI chip trailers, Peerless chip vans and Big John log trailers. Drivers get paid by the day and then get a bonus like everybody else.

Michael reports that the mill lines haven’t been long for his drivers.

Little Logging had one truck turn over about a year and a half ago, but it was a new driver and no other cars were involved. “He couldn’t get stopped in time for a car in front of him so he just went off the road,” Michael says.

Michael estimates his business spends about $300,000 per year on repairs, parts and tires. He works with Brandon Mathews and David Hyatt in the parts department at James River. “David and Brandon keep a lot of parts in stock for me,” Michael explains. “They’re really good to work with.”

On the clean chipping crew, Luis Ramirez and Carlos Gonzalez run the skidders. Blake Broadway and Chad Mills operate the cutters while Alfonso Gomez runs the loader. Truck drivers are Melvin Byrd, David Rorie, Darryl Little and Anthony Smith.

As for the fuel chipping crew, Johnnie Oxendine runs the fellerbuncher, Billy Wilhoit runs the loader and Francisco Loboy runs the skidder. Alfonso Ratliff and Charles Hannah are the truck drivers.

Michael oversees both crews and fills in on either crew when somebody is out.

so it was tough to manage,” he says.

“We didn’t give up and we worked as hard as we could. I was able to get new equipment about three years ago and ever since then it’s been a lot better because you don’t have the downtime and the repair bills.”

When asked about what he would tell a young logger just starting out he had this to say. “Be prepared to work hard and put in a lot of hours. Don’t get ahead of yourself and don’t take on too much at one time.”

One thing Michael and Ashlee’s

company isn’t lacking is timber. “I have six to eight months of work ahead of me all the time so we’re never down,” Michael says. “They’ll move me somewhere where I can work if the weather is rough.”

Michael likes where the business is right now, but he’d be willing to expand if the opportunity presented itself. “I’ve thought about that a little bit, but if I were to expand it would probably just be adding another crew.”

Much of Michael and Ashlee’s free

time is dedicated to managing their kid’s activities that includes many different sporting activities. They also have a large herd of cattle that they tend to and that provides Michael with a nice distraction from the dayto-day grind a logger faces.

Michael faced an uphill battle when he started the business seven years ago, but he and his wife have been up to the challenge and the SLT future looks bright.

Contact by email: alittlelogging@ yahoo.com

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Historical Series…

Central Louisiana Timber Empire

By Edward F. Kerr hat’s your pick of the most historically important timber area in the South? Mine is central Louisiana, where within a 100-mile diameter circle a dozen timber giants spawned an empire that still lives today.

Within this circle, names like Hardtner, Crowell, Buchanan, Joyce and Bentley took on new meaning for the forest industry. The majority of the companies built by these men and their contemporaries at the turn of the century are still manufacturing lumber today and all but a few are nursing their cutover lands back into a healthy timber production for tomorrow’s harvests.

It was no wonder that enterprising lumbermen seeking their fortunes came to Alexandria, located at the center of the circle. To the west and north lay the vast longleaf pine belt that stretched across 12 parishes. To the south lay hardwood timber that matched the dreams of even an Appalachian logger.

Louisiana in those days contained more timber than any other state in the nation except the three Pacific Coast states. However, it wasn’t logged on a major scale until after the railroads came in during the second half of the 1800s. In 1869 lumber output of the state totaled only 76MMBF, the lowest in the South; but with the railroads also came northern capital, and Louisiana’s lumber production almost doubled every year until the state passed all others in the South in 1904 with an output of nearly 2.5 billion BF. Less than 10 years later, this production almost doubled again.

The Alexandria area made its debut on the big lumbering scene in 1891 when J. A. Bentley and E. W. Zimmermann established the J. A. Bentley Lumber Co. at Zimmermann, 17 miles northwest of Alexandria. Bentley and Zimmermann came South together from

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Prime long leaf timber harvested was large, straight, tight-grained.

Pennsylvania, and first went into the lumber business in Texas. Their first mill at Zimmermann burned in 1906 but was rebuilt immediately, so the mill has a record in this area of 62 years of continuous operation.

Bentley’s second venture, Enterprise Lumber Co., was organized in 1903 and cut out 20 years later.

Rugged Individualists Most famous, rugged individualists fall heir to tall tales spun around them, and Bentley was no exception. Take, for instance, the wellknown tale about how he happened to build the Hotel Bentley in

Alexandria. It has been said that be became angry at the management of the old Rapides Hotel because he wasn’t allowed to enter the dining room without a coat, so he built the Bentley where he could dress as he pleased while dining. Those who knew Bentley intimately say there is no truth in this statement.

(Built in 1908, the 175-room Bentley Hotel was frequented by several well-known and not so wellknown military figures in the early ’40s. These included Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Omar Bradley, George Marshall, Matthew Ridgeway and Henry Kissinger. The hotel is still in business.)

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Both Bentley and Zimmermann remained bachelors all their lives and left their estates to relatives.

Bentley died in 1933, Zimmermann in 1938.

The Hardtner Era In 1892, records show that Henry Hardtner, who was to become the “father of reforestation in the South,” emerged as a timberman in his own right.

Born in Pineville, La. in 1871, he was reared and spent his life in the Alexandria area. At 21 he invested $1,000 in a sawmill with his father, with J. M. Nugent holding the

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remainder of the $6,000 capital.

Four years later, in 1896, Hardtner struck out on his own, going into partnership with Charles W. Lacroix north of the city at a settlement called Maxwell Spur on the Iron Mountain Railroad. Having had his fill of typical sawmill towns, Hardtner decided that this one would be different. He called his town Urania, named after the Greek muse of astronomy, saying it was like moving from hell to heaven.

In two years the small tract of virgin timber that Hardtner bought along with the mill was cut over and he bought another tract of 3,158 acres from Attwood Violet of New York for $13,500 cash. This was the start of Urania Lumber Co. and the Hardtner era. During the next quarter of a century, he and his brother, Q. T., would become known as world leaders in reforestation.

The next chapter of area forest history actually began in 1889 at Stamps, Ark., where the Bodcaw Lumber Co. was organized by C. T. Crowell, E. W. Frost, G. W. Bottoms and W. T. Ferguson. All these names have become famous in forest history, as each stockholder struck out on his own to make his timber fortune elsewhere.

Bodcaw served as the springboard for still another timber giant. Shortly after it was organized by Crowell, it was sold to a man named William Buchanan who was to become the biggest giant of them all in Arkansas and Louisiana. Buchanan not only continued the operation of Bodcaw until 1931, when it was cut out, but organized Pine Woods Lumber Co. at Springhill, Minden Lumber Co. at Minden, Grant Timber & Mfg. Co. of Louisiana, at Selma, Trout Creek Lumber Co. at Trout, Good Pine Lumber Co. at Good Pine and Tall Timber Lumber Co. at Good Pine.

Crowell Family Before going into Buchanan’s conquests, however, let’s follow the career of C. T. Crowell, who moved to Louisiana after selling his interests at Stamps, Ark. Caleb T. Crowell, born in 1849, first operated a pine sawmill at Waldo, Ark. in the 1880s. His first mill in Louisiana was at Dubberly, a small one typical of the times when all logging had to be done by oxen.

He cut his last timber there in 1892, and moved to Los Angeles, Calif., where his sons, J. S. and R. D., were educated.

Before leaving Louisiana, however, Crowell had purchased a tract of virgin longleaf pine about 30 miles south of Alexandria and established a small mill in partnership with A. B. Spencer at a site they called

Clyde four-line steam skidder reeled in logs to railroads; it could clear four acres from a single setting.

Henry Hardtner

Long Leaf. In 1897 Spencer’s health failed and it became necessary for Crowell to return to the state long enough to get his son, J. S., just 18, started in the business.

In that year they incorporated the Crowell & Spencer Lumber Co., with C. T. as president and J. S. as secretary-treasurer and general manager. C. T. went back to California where he remained in the real estate business until his death.

In 1900 the original mill at Long Leaf burned and the Crowells began their era of expansion. They built a more powerful circular mill and in 1911, and added a band saw. In 1899 the younger son, R. D., finished school in California and came back to Louisiana to join his older brother.

The family organized Meridian Lumber Co. in 1913 and built a big, modern sawmill at the newly created town of Meridian. R. D. Crowell became manager of this plant. In 1911 they went into the railroad business so they could reach their entire timber supply. They built the Red River and Gulf Railroad running from Long Leaf to Le Compte and tapping the Rock Island, the Texas and Pacific and Southern Pacific systems. When the Meridian plant started up they built a branch line from Long Leaf to Meridian.

In 1919 the Crowells bought a tremendous tract of virgin timber known as the Gould Timber lying west of the town of Long Leaf. At the same time they built their railroad westward for the first time, running a line 25 miles west from Long Leaf to Kurthwood, through the heart of their new possessions.

The Crowell’s Alexandria Lumber Co. built a mill in Alco, La. in 1921. In 1923 J. S. Crowell died and R. D. took over as executive head of all timber affairs. When the Meridian mill burned in 1928, it was not rebuilt, for most of the company’s eastern holdings had been cut by then. Meridian Lumber took over the holdings of Alexandria Lumber Co. and the company rebuilt the Alco mill.

In 1929 another Crowell, R.D Jr., came into the picture. He was made general manager of the Long Leaf operations in 1930. Allen C. Crowell joined the organization in 1933.

William Buchanan William Buchanan first came into Louisiana in 1897 when he organized the Pine Woods Lumber Co. in Springhill. Officers and directors of the company were Buchanan, W. T. Ferguson, J. F. Giles, G. E. Harris, J. A. Buchanan and W. C. Brown.

This mill was purchased from Porter-Wadley Lumber Co. and was operated until 1933. It was sold to Frost Lumber Industries in 1936.

Buchanan’s next venture was Minden Lumber Co., which was organized in 1901 and continued until 1918. Officers here besides Buchanan were E. E. Fitzgerald, C. L. Whitmarsh and J. G. Ferguson.

Grant Timber & Mfg. Co. was established in 1905.

That same year the great Trout Creek mill was built at Trout in LaSalle Parish. Officers were Buchanan, William C. Brown, James A. Buchanan and Henry

Moore. To start such a mill operation in 1905, Buchanan needed plenty of land, and records show that he paid plenty for it. The mill closed in 1929 and sold to Louisiana Delta Hardwood Lumber Co., together with the store and office building and dwelling houses.

Contrary to popular belief, timber barons of the day paid a high price for their holdings, for by the turn of the century most of the big chunks of valuable virgin timber had already been swallowed up by investors from the North. Buchanan bought much of his timber from Charles Lathrop Pack, noted northern financer, and from the Gould interests. To do this, he had to pay a high price and plenty of interest on the loans.

His first purchases in 1906 from Pack averaged $14 an acre. In 1919 he bought land from River Land & Lumber Co., owned by Pack, at $57.41 per acre. In 1920 he paid $80 an acre for a tract of 14,000 acres.

Herbert Tannehill of Trout, who was assistant logging superintendent and land man for Buchanan, says that Buchanan fully intended to keep the Trout Mill going for 70 to 80 years. But a year after the mill was built Tannehill went to the assessor’s office and brought back the tax statement, which had been hiked considerably. It was then that Buchanan figured he would have to build new mills to cut off the timber quickly before taxes ate up his profits.

In 1906 he organized at Good Pine, with himself, J. A. Buchanan, W. A. Grim and W. C. Brown on the board of directors. He then organized Tall Timber at Good Pine in 1913. The first directors were W. J. Buchanan, son of William Buchanan, Randolph G. Pack, son of Charles Lathrop Pack, James G. Boyce, Allen Brown and Henry Moore. This was among the last of the large sawmills built in

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Louisiana and was one of the best mills in the state.

Tall Timber’s mill operated until April 1, 1932, at which time it was closed. Belts were removed from the machinery and the sawmill and planer mill buildings were boarded up. No machinery was removed, however.

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ers decided not to rebuild.

Tall Timber’s Board of Directors met on June 27, 1935 and decided to rehabilitate the plant and to resume operations to cut the balance of timber owned by various companies in the area. Except for temporarily going down for a major steam engine repair in the late ’30s, the mill operated until it shut down in 1941.

All total, the Louisiana Buchanan mills operated for 213 years—probably a record. From 1902 until 1935, the various Buchanan compa-

nies shipped nearly 7 billion BF of lumber.

Buchanan was a moving force behind the development of the old Bodcaw mill logging road into the Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad, which figured so prominently in the sawmill developments in central and north Louisiana.

When Buchanan died in 1923, his bachelor son, W. J., inherited the leadership of the Buchanan enterprises and directed the operations until his death in 1941.

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Tremont Lumber Organized in 1899, Tremont Lumber Co. also operatored a string of great mills in its day, with Robert H. Jenks as president and W. W. Davis secretary-treasurer. ➤ 22

From Low Country To High Country William M. Cady and partners, one of which was James G. McNary, erected two sawmills (combined capacity 500MBF per day) at McNary, La., (elevation 125 ft.) about 25 miles southwest of Alexandria, around 1913. The town eventually was home to about 3,000.

Years later, as the available timber supply began to dwindle, they decided they would buy an existing James McNary mill operation and relocate their employees to another region of the country.

McNary first explored the Pacific Northwest and looked in Mexico. He then found the town of Cooley, Arizona (elevation 7, 316 ft.) on the Apache Indian Reservation, where the defunct Apache Lumber Co. had operated a mill, along with another in Flagstaff. For $1.5 million they bought the Apache mills and timber holdings, then invested another $3.5 million at Cooley to install an all-electric mill that featured three band saws. They also got permission from the federal government to rename Cooley McNary.

In early February 1924, within days after they cut their last log in Louisiana, Cady personnel disassembled the mills and logging equipment and loaded it, along with livestock, employees (about 500) and their possessions, on two special trains for the arduous trip.

After Cady Lumber Corp. collapsed in 1935, McNary bought Cady’s interests and brought the company back as Southwest Lumber Mills, modernizing both mill and logging operations over the next two decades. He sold his business interests in 1952.

The McNary mill was destroyed by fire in 1979.

Both of McNary’s namesakes remain on the respective maps of Louisiana and Arizona, but today are mere shells of what they once were. McNary, La.’s population is around 200; that of its Arizona companion a little over 50.

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Railroads ruled the woods from around 1880 until well into the 1940s.

The McGiffert steam-powered loader was a popular machine.

20 ➤ Tremont built its first mill at the town of Tremont in Lincoln Parish in 1901. It’s capacity was 40,000 MBF feet. In 1903 the company extended its track to Eros and built a double-band mill and in the ensuing years established mills at Chatham, Jonesboro, Dodson and Rochelle.

To obtain enough timberland for his mills, Jenks was faced with bringing in some more capital. At about the time he had his eye on a tremendous tract of land owned by DuncanBrewer, which extended from below Winnfield to as far north as Lincoln Parish, he went to Chicago and contacted W. T. Joyce, who became a major stockholder in the company.

According to James G. Russell, who logged for the company for many years, all company mills had

Industrial’s biggest mill, however, was located in Elizabeth and started cutting in 1909. In 1925 its two Oakdale mills were closed to prolong operation of the Elizabeth mill, which remained active until 1942.

Another large sawmill was located in southeastern Vernon Parish.

Known as the Fullerton mill, it began operations in 1907 and was owned by Gulf Lumber Co. It cut out in 1927.

In 1923, about the time many mills were cutting out in this area, a young entrepreneur by the name of Roy O. Martin purchased a small mill in Alexandria after having served for eight years as manager of Nickey Brothers’ mill in Memphis, Tenn. Martin catapulted that small ground-hog mill business into an enterprise that includes two band

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shut down by 1929 except the one at Rochelle. This one shut down in 1946, and the company built the Joyce mill in 1949. At the time, they placed in charge of the mill C. H. Lindsay, whose father had been mill foreman at the company’s very first operation at Tremont.

Industrial Lumber Co. Another famous name in this area is Industrial Lumber Co., also known for its early reforestation efforts on its 108,000 acres. Industrial was formed in 1898 in Beaumont, Tex. The company bought a mill and about 22,000 acres of virgin long leaf pine in Calcasieu Parish soon afterward and later bought mills and lands of the Calcasieu River Lumber Co. near Oakdale.

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mills and a chain of lumber yards that stretch the length of the state.

The mills included in this report are some of the more important ones established in the Alexandria area.

There were literally hundreds more.

There was Long-Bell Lumber Co., which operated mills at Yellow Pine, Woodworth, and Bonami. Other mills were Iatt Lumber and Ed Rand Lumber, Alexandria; Cady Lumber, McNary; Big Pine Lumber and Colfax Hardwood Lumber, Colfax; Hodge-Hunt Lumber, Hodge; Mansfield Hardwood Lumber, Mansfield and Winnfield; Lee Lumber, Tioga; SLT and Boyce Lumber, Boyce.

Note: This article originally appeared in the December 15, 1957 issue of Southern Lumberman. The sidebar about Cady Lumber Co. was not part of the original text.

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Big Shoes Filled ■ M.M. Wright partners Stephen Wright and Frank Myers head a distinguished operation.

By David Abbott GASBURG, Va. artners Stephen ★ Wright, 47, and his brother-in-law Frank Myers, 57, have spent the last two decades sharing responsibilities for leading their family’s company, M.M. Wright Inc. That company serves as an umbrella under which several subsidiaries operate as interconnected parts of the same group: Barko dealer Gasburg Equipment Co., Inc., procurement arm Gasburg Land and Timber, Inc., trucking company Gasburg Timber Corp. and mulch plant Buck Woods, LLC. In all the company employs 65 and owns 6,000 acres of land, and the owners are active politically. Myers serves as a vocal proponent and spokesman for industry interests at the state government level, both through the Virginia Loggers Assn. and as a member of the Governor’s Forestry Board.

Last fall, Timber Harvesting, companion publication to Southern Loggin’ Times, announced M.M. Wright as the 19th recipient of its Logging Business of the Year Award. The award was presented at the American Loggers Council’s annual meeting in September.

Stephen Wright’s father, M.M. Wright, founded the company after finishing his stint in the Army in 1953. “He was a man of few words,” Stephen recalls. “Daddy didn’t say a whole lot, but when he did say something, he meant it, and he didn’t want to hear a whole lot back about it.”

The elder Mr. Wright was wellknown and highly regarded in the industry.

Myers, a forester, first became involved with the family when he went to work for Continental Can Co. (later Stone Container) in 1981. He bought timber for Stephen’s older brother Jeff, who was helping M.M. run the company. “I knew Jeff and M.M. very well,” the forester recalls.

“He was a very dear friend of mine.”

Jeff introduced his sister Susan to Myers. They married in 1986, when Myers went to work for M.M. Wright.

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over the family business, but he died in a car accident in 1984.

“That was a big hit,” Stephen says.

“He left some big shoes to fill.”

Stephen was only 15, but he started working behind the parts counter after school.

The family and company suffered another blow when M.M. died in 1993. “He was a legend,” Myers states simply. “Stephen and I, we were following a legend.”

Following in the footsteps of his father and older brother, attempting to honor and continue their legacy, may have left him with some big shoes to fill, but it’s a burden Stephen views as a blessing. “If I Stephen Wright, left, and Frank Myers had to start from scratch, it would the logging industry benefits from have been a whole lot harder than active participation in the political what I’ve had to do.” process. “The more the logging community is brought forward, the better Division Of Labor off we are,” he believes.

With different but complementaMyers and Wright aren’t the only ry personal styles, Wright and ones in charge of the family operaMyers work exceedingly well tion. Stephen’s mother, Zenith together as a team, maximizing the Wright, is company President. strengths that each brings to the Frank’s wife Susan and Stephen’s table. A natural division of duties wife Denise, with help from Frank has evolved in their partnership. and Susan’s daughter Jenna Wells, Myers, a forester and a “people per- handle much of the paper work. son,” coordinates harvesting and Frank and Susan’s son Travis overhauling efforts, and gets actively sees a logging crew. involved in the state association/political arena. Wright, Businesses gifted with a natural mechanical M.M. Wright, the parent company, aptitude, oversees equipment sales, includes all timber harvesting operamaintenance and the mulch plant.

“He’s a master mechanic,” Myers tions. It fields four logging/thinning/ chipping crews in a 100-mile radius says of his brother-in-law. “He can around the home office in Gasburg. fix anything. He doesn’t like poliCutters are all Tigercat 718s and tics so I do all that kind of stuff.”

“He and I have two different ways 726s, skidders are primarily Tigercat 620s with some John Deere 648s, of doing things,” Wright agrees.

“But we work very well together. We bulldozers are Caterpillar. Loaders, of course, are Barko, 495s and 595s, keep each other informed. And we through company-owned Gasburg respect one another. Sometimes we Equipment. Tigercat comes from might get wires crossed up, but we Bullock Bros. in Gaston. Deere both know that at the end of the day machines come through James River the end result is making this compaEquipment in South Hill. The crew ny successful.”

Myers serves on the boards of sev- began using Conehead chippers when Barko acquired the brand, since Gaseral groups, including the Virginia burg Equipment is a Barko dealer.

Loggers. Assn.—he’s been affiliated They now run a Barko CH60-25 with it since its inception—and the chipper (the CH is a reference to the Virginia Forest Products Assn. He design’s Conehead roots). “It’s also serves on the Virginia Dept. of Forestry’s Board of Forestry, appoint- worked really well,” Wright says.

Wright and Myers started Gased by Governor Terry McAuliffe. It is burg Equipment in 1996. Along Myers’ deeply held conviction that

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with Barko, it sells CSI saw bucks and delimbers, Rotobec grapples, Cummins engines and Big John trailers. Of course, it also serves as the shop to handle all the repairs and maintenance for the logging crews. Six mechanics work in the shop, three for forestry machines and three for trucks and trailers. Maintenance costs run $100,000 a month.

Gasburg Land and Timber Inc. is the procurement arm, purchasing all timber for the four harvesting crews as well as for the wood storage yard and the mulch plant.

In 1999 the company started buying its own timber. These days they like to keep it bought six months to a year in advance. Gasburg Land and Timber has two foresters, George Jones and Nick Smith, in addition to Myers, a forester by training. Most of the company’s own 6,000 acres is in Brunswick County, where M.M. Wright is based. Still, the crews rarely work on company land.

All trucking for M.M. Wright is under Gasburg Timber Corp. It has a fleet of 19 trucks, mostly Western Star with a few Kenworths, and 40 Big John trailers. Western Star trucks parts are purchased through B and C in Ashland. “They are really good people to work with, very helpful and I consider them friends of ours,” Stephen says. Gasburg supplements its hauling capacity with 6-8 regular contract trucks.

Buck Woods, LLC is a mulch plant that M.M. Wright purchased from a fellow logger and friend in July, 2014. Wood for the plant is sourced primarily from M.M. Wright crews—all hardwood. They bring it in as roundwood and run it through two grinders, a Peterson and a Rotochopper. “It is hard to take a product and get it to the quality we want with one machine,” says Wright. During mulch season, especially in the spring but somewhat in the fall, Wright’s time is dedicated mostly to the plant nearly five days a week, so he has to stay in contact with his men at the shop and know what’s SLT going on from a distance.

Contact by email: Gasburg@ gmail.com

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Making The Most Of It

SLT Truck Driver Salute!

An engineer dies and appears at heaven’s pearly gates. St. Peter, who is having a particularly busy and frustrating day, quickly scans his entry list and does not see the engineer’s name, so he diverts him to hell.

The engineer reports to hell and is admitted.

Soon he becomes dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. Over time the place finds itself with air conditioning, flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is becoming a pretty popular guy.

One day God contacts Satan and asks, “So, how’s it going down there in hell?”

Satan replies, “Hey, things are going great.

We’ve got all these new comforts, and there’s no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next.”

God replies, “What? You’ve got an engineer?

That’s a mistake, he should never have gotten down there, send him up here.”

Satan says, “No way! I like having an engineer on the staff, and I’m keeping him.”

God responds, “Send him back up here or I’ll sue.”

Satan laughs uproariously and answers, “Yeah, right. And just where are you going to get a lawyer?”

Research With A Price A federal agency sent the following letter to a landowner asking for permission to access a creek on the property to document the decline in a certain species of frogs: Our agency will be conducting surveys for foothill yellow-legged frogs and other amphibians over the next few months. As part of this research we would like to survey the creek on your property. I am writing to request your permission to access your property.

Recent research indicates that foothill yellow-legged frogs have declined significantly in recent years and are no longer found at half their historic sites. Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated and will help contribute to the conservation of this important species.

Please let us know if you are willing to participate. If you have any concerns about this project, please give us a call. We would love to talk with you about our research.

The landowner’s response: Thank you for your inquiry regarding accessing our property to survey for the yellow-legged frog. We may be able to help you out with this matter.

We have divided our 2.26 acres into 75 equal survey units with a draw tag for each unit.

Application fees are only $8 per unit after you purchase the Frog Survey License ($120 resident, $180 non-resident).

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Our honoree this month is Dan White, 76, who resides in the Linden, Ala. area.

According to Linden Lumber Procurement Manager Joe Parden, White drove for the company for approximately 35 years without a Dan White mishap. “Dan hauled logs and equipment to and from some of the most remote river swamps tracts in southwestern Alabama,” Parden wrote in his recommendation letter to SLT. White no longer drives on public roads but still hauls logs from the Linden sawmill’s adjacent wet storage yard, runs loaders, and helps around the shop.

SLT is looking for more drivers to honor.

Send photos, along with a brief amount of info that includes name, age, years of truck driving experience overall, years of service with your company, hobbies, and any other interesting characteristics. Email dk@ hattonbrown.com or send via snail mail to Truck Driver Salute, DK-SLT, P.O. Box 2268, Montgomery, AL 36102-2268.

Invasive Species stamp ($15 for the first vehicle and $5 for each additional vehicle). You will also want to register at the Check Station to have your vehicle inspected for non-native plant life prior to entering our property. There is also a Day Use fee of $5 per vehicle.

If you are successful in the draw you will be notified two weeks in advance so you can make necessary plans and purchase your Creek Habitat stamp ($18 resident, $40 non-resident).

Survey units are open between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. but you cannot commence survey work

How To Be A Logger “You gotta be part Tarzan, part Einstein, mostly Jesus Christ. And if everything works out for you, you’ll survive.”

—30-year logger Kevin Pool, 47, of Helmsburg, Ind., in a December 2016 interview with a reporter from the Indiana Daily Student

until 9 a.m. and must cease all activity by 1 p.m.

Survey gear can only include a 2 in. diameter net made of 100% organic cotton netting. Its handle can be no longer than 18 in., nonweighted and no deeper than 6 in. from net frame to net bottom. Handles can only be made of BPA-free plastics or wooden handles. After 1 p.m. you can use a net with a 3 in. diameter if you purchase the Frog Net Endorsement ($75 resident, $150 non-resident). Any frogs captured and released will need to be released with an approved release device.

As of April 1, we are offering draw tags for our Premium Survey units and application is again only $8 per application. However, all fees will be waived if you can verify Native Indian Tribal rights and status.

You will also need to provide evidence of successful completion of Frog Surveys and your comprehensive course on frog identification, safe handling practices, and self-defense strategies for frog attacks. This course is offered online through an accredited program for a nominal fee of $350.

Please let us know if we can be of assistance to you. Otherwise, we decline your access to our property but appreciate your inquiry.

Holy Humor A father was approached by his small son who told him proudly, “I know what the Bible means!”

His father smiled and replied, “What do you mean, you ‘know’ what the Bible means?

The son replied, “I do know!”

“Okay,” said his father. “What does the Bible mean?”

“That’s easy, daddy,” the young boy replied excitedly. “It stands for ‘Basic Information Before Leaving Earth.’”

Nurse Nancy Two doctors in practice in a small country clinic had to hire a new nurse when the one they had won the lottery and quit. They interviewed Nurse Nancy and decided to hire her.

She had worked only two days when one doctor called the other to his office and said that they would have to let Nurse Nancy go, explaining: “I think she is dyslexic and gets things backward. I told her to give Mr. Smith two sedatives every six hours, but she gave him six sedatives every two hours and it almost killed him. I told her to give Mrs. Jones an enema every 12 hours and she gave her 12 in one hour…”

Suddenly, the other doctor bolted out of the room.

“Where are you going in such a hurry?” his colleague asked, hearing this response: “To see Nurse Nancy. I just instructed her to prick Mr. Hill’s Boil!”

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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP As We See It: Logging Fatalities Trending In The Wrong Direction

By Danny Dructor I recently stumbled across an article posted in the North Kentucky Tribune titled, “Logging by far deadliest job in U.S.; Dructor fishing, pilots/flight engineers next, says U.S. Labor Dept.” When your mission states “To enhance the logging profession, provide a unified voice on logging issues; and cooperate with public, industrial and private timberland owners to further sustainable forestry practices,” I hardly believe that this is what we had in mind.

Seeing how I thought that we were doing a better job promoting safety, which, in my mind, is a part of the professionalism we are supposed to be “enhancing,” I went to the Department of Labor’s web site, or more importantly the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to see if I could determine just where the problems are. As it turns out, I discovered that we are lumped into this category that includes Farming, Fishing and Forestry, so I had to dig a little deeper. What I did find out is that there was actually a decrease in the number of fatalities in the Forestry and Logging category from 2014 to 2015, but unfortunately, there were fewer of us doing those jobs due to downsizing, mechanization and attrition, so the number of fatalities per 100,000 employed actually rose during 2015.

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This is not the direction we want to be headed for several reasons. First, the loss of life due to an accident that could have been prevented is not acceptable, and as we all know, most accidents are preventable. Second, when we are trying to attract new employees to this industry, this is not the track record that needs to be advertised. Third, when workers’ comp rates go up, this is the reason.

No matter how safe your job site is, there are others in the industry who are not performing as safely as they could be and you are helping to pay the bills for them.

During our Summer Board of Director’s meeting last July, we discussed some of the issues that we should focus on over the next several years. Dave Cupp of Walsh Timber in Zwolle, La., representing our Individual Logger Members, made the statement that we should also focus on losing our status as being the most dangerous occupation in the nation and at the very least get out of the top three. Visiting again with Dave this week he stated, “I feel very strongly that we can change this culture and not accept this as a part of our business.”

The American Loggers Council will be addressing this issue in 2017 and beyond, and by doing so will be helping to create a safe work environment where we can attract and retain the best and brightest young men and women in the country to sustainably harvest our nation’s forests. You can help us! Don’t ignore safety issues on your job. Discuss near misses at tail-

gate safety sessions, recognize safe practices and offer incentives for achieving safety goals, and by all means, make it your responsibility that everyone has the opportunity to return home each and every evening to their families.

Let’s make this a safe, productive and prosperous 2017.

Danny Dructor is the Executive Vice President for the American Loggers Council, residing near Hemphill, Texas.

The American Loggers Council is a 501 (c)(6) not for profit trade organization representing professional timber harvesters in 32 states across the United States. If you would like to learn more about the ALC, please visit their web site at www.amloggers.com, or contact their office at 409-625-0206.

Enviva Launches Wood Accountability Program Enviva Holdings, LP, the world’s largest producer of wood pellets, has released the first data from its Track & Trace (T&T) program. T&T enables Enviva to track every truckload of wood the company procures

from the forest back to its source, providing a detailed understanding of the characteristics of the wood the company uses.

Enviva produces pellets using lowgrade wood from Southern forests.

As an additional component of its commitment to sustainable sourcing, Enviva does not source wood from independently identified bottomland forest ecosystems that demonstrate high conservation value attributes, or from any forest where the landowner plans to convert to a nonforest use.

The launch of Enviva’s Track & Trace program comes after years of planning and investment and thousands of hours of effort on the part of Enviva’s foresters and the company’s wood suppliers. Enviva is making T&T information available to the public through a set of interactive maps at www.envivabiomass.com/ sustainability/track-and-trace.

Before selling wood to Enviva, a supplier must provide detailed data on the specific forest tract being considered for harvest, including each individual tract’s precise geographic location, acreage, forest type, species

Enviva has implemented a detailed raw material procurement data program.

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mix, age and the share of wood from each harvest that goes to Enviva versus other consumers. Enviva does not accept any wood from a harvest without this information, and the compa-

ny records the data and verifies the accuracy of its procedures through third-party audits.

T&T data are presented in two ways. First, the Forest Trend Map is

based on time-series data from the U.S. Forest Service and displays changes in overall forest conditions in the Southeast U.S. and in each of Enviva’s forest supply areas. Second,

the Enviva Wood Supply Map provides detailed information on actual timber harvests around each of Enviva’s facilities during the first half of 2016. Data include harvest site,

LOGGING LIFE AT HOME: Valentine Thoughts Deborah Smith has been married to Rome, Ga. logger Travis Smith for 34 years. They have 10 children: seven by birth, three adopted from Africa, and two granddaughters. A college EngTravis and Deborah Smith lish major, she began home-schooling their children in 1991. Says Smith: “I love my family; I am passionate about encouraging others to keep the faith, to keep taking the next right step, no matter how hard life gets.” Visit her blog: buttercupsbloomhere.blogspot.com

alentine’s Day makes me nervous. There is no way I can show all the

V people I love that I love them, all on one day, with a gift, card or

phone call.

That got me thinking. I really should have some place in my heart to remind me that, in a way, every day is Valentine’s Day. We all know, yet live like we don’t know, that we will die one day. One day, life will be much different for us than it is right now. That’s both happy and sad. In the midst of our hopes and longings are life’s storms, and lots of uncertainty. Life is constantly changing, and the changes come mostly in quiet steps, and we don’t remember the last time we were all together. We all know that we are all finite, but we live and move and breathe and act as if we have all the time in the world to say, “I love you, and I’m so proud of you.”

I wonder how many lives of hurting, angry young adults would be radically changed for good if they could just receive one phone call...“Hi, honey, this is Dad. I love you. And I think you are perfect, just the way you are.”

Or, “Son, I haven’t told you in a long time, but I love you, and I’m proud of you.” Imagine what would happen if thousands of parents got on the phone and did this on February 14, or any day.

I wonder how many tired and frightened folks would feel encouraged by a Valentine card that went something like this: “Dear Mom and Dad, I know now that when I was a kid life was hard. I also know now that you did the best that you could do. I love you.”

How many thousands of lives would be changed for good, if along with the dozen roses came a message: “Honey, I’ve been trying to handle life on my own and it’s not working. I’m going to AA. I’m getting help. I’m sorry for the pain I have caused and I want to get well for all of us. I love you.”

What if, over the perfect supper, you realize what’s really important is more time together, and decide to make the changes to make that happen?

It seems to me that so many of our Valentine gifts are apologies, excuses, for not really living and loving the way we dreamt of or long for, and yet we really do love that person or people. Our actions just don’t convey our love.

Get that expensive gift or the overpriced roses, but don’t stop there. Tell them. Call them. Write them. Every month, each week, during the hours of this day, remind yourself to love people and use things. Remember people. Thank people. Enjoy this moment. Smile at those you are with and say “thank you,” and “I love you,” too much. Today is all we know we have with someone. Today is what we have today, and we really don’t know what tomorrow looks like till it gets here.

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landowner type, forest type, harvest type, years since last harvest, the number of acres harvested and the percentage of the harvest volume provided to Enviva for wood pellet production.

The first T&T public release includes Enviva wood purchases from January through June 2016. Initial T&T findings include: l Since Enviva opened its first U.S. mill in 2011, the total amount of forested land in its primary supply

area has increased by more than 320,000 acres, with the volume of forest inventory on that land growing by 10%. l During the first half of 2016, Enviva procured wood from more than 750 individual tracts in 98 counties in seven Southern states. l During the first half of 2016, Enviva’s wood came from these sources: —About 72% came from mixed pine and hardwood forests (43%),

southern yellow pine forests (25%) and upland hardwood forests (4%).

This wood consists of undersized or “understory” wood that was removed as part of a larger harvest; tops and limbs; brush; and thinnings that were removed to make additional room for planted pines to grow.

—About 25% was sawdust, shavings or residuals from wood product manufacturing.

—About 3% came from working bottomland hardwood forests, made

up of undersized or understory wood that was removed as part of a larger harvest; tops and limbs; brush; and thinnings.

—Less than 1% came from landscaping or urban tree maintenance projects.

—On average, the forests on these tracts were 37 years old at the time of final harvest.

“Research shows that sustainably sourced and produced wood pellets can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a lifecycle basis compared to coal,” says Jennifer Jenkins, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Enviva. “Enviva is providing transparency into our sourcing process so that policymakers and other stakeholders can investigate for themselves the responsible wood supply approach that Enviva is taking to ensure the positive environmental impact of our wood pellets.”

As the T&T system matures, Enviva expects to learn more and to incorporate the findings into its operations and procedures. Enviva plans to update the online T&T data a few times a year going forward.

Another Honor For Allen Bedell Allen Bedell, influential and eminent forestry leader in Arkansas and beyond, has been selected Allen Bedell for induction into the Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Agricul-

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Bedell, 78, who holds a BS in forestry from LSU and an MS in forest management from Yale, currently serves as one of two forestry representatives on the Arkansas Dept. of Agriculture Board and is serving his second term on the Arkansas Forestry Commission, which he previously chaired.

In 1973 he transitioned from forester (G-P) to logger, over the next 30-plus years building a career that intersected with many opportunities, achievements, and challenges. He helped form the Arkansas Timber Producers Assn.

(ATPA), helped develop its awardwinning training and education program, helped organize its Log-ALoad for Kids program, and promoted passage of legislation that exempted sales tax on logging

equipment. After being twice honored as the Arkansas Outstanding Logger of the Year and a finalist in FRA’s national logger recognition, his dual logging businesses were selected as the inaugural Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year in 1998.

For more than a decade he was deeply involved in the Forest Resources Assn. and in 2002 became the first supplier/logger to be elected chairman of the group. He has

served as both vice president and president of the Arkansas Forestry Assn. and currently serves on the group’s executive committee and board.

Structural Damage Causes Mill Shutdown On January 22 International Paper experienced significant structural damage to the largest pulp digester as well as the powerhouse at its Pensacola pulp and paper mill in Cantonment, Fla. No one at the mill was injured.

The incident released a mixture of wood fiber, water and pulping liquor into the surrounding community. IP immediately began engaging contractors to develop and implement plans to clean up and dispose of the discharged material as quickly as possible.

The mill was shut down as IP assessed the extent of the damage to the mill.

Enviva Selling Wiggins Pellet Mill Enviva is selling its wood pellet plant at Wiggins, Miss. to Guthrie Pellets Inc., a family owned business that once owned the plant before Enviva purchased it.

The smaller scale of the Wiggins facility (110 million metric tons per year capacity) doesn’t fit with Enviva’s larger facilities. The other Enviva facilities will make up for the lost production at Wiggins.

Enviva will now list six plants in operation: Cottondale, Fla. (700 MTPY), Southampton, Va. (510 MTPY), Northampton, NC (510

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MTPY), Ahoskie, NC (370 MTPY), Amory, Miss. (110 MTPY), and its most recent at Sampson, NC which is expected to produce 500,000 MTPY in 2017 and reach 600,000 MTPY in 2019.

Meanwhile Enviva is moving ahead on construction of a plant in Hamlet, NC (500 MTPY), and is assessing possible projects—all 500 MPTY—at Laurens, SC; Childersburg, Ala.; Abbeville, Ala.; and

Lucedale, Miss.

Worldwide industrial wood pellet demand could top supply by 6.7 million metric tons annually come 2020, according to a report by Enviva Chairman and CEO John Keppler for the Drexel Hamilton’s Emerging Growth Investor Conference in early December.

Identified supply could be 20.5 million metric tons compared to 27.2 MTPY of demand.

Late Truck Driver’s Family Wins Lawsuit In January a Lowndes County (Ala.) Circuit Court jury awarded more than $15 million to the family of a log truck driver killed October 7, 2013.

Driver Jerry Albritton, 50 years old, died when his vehicle failed to manage a curve heading south on County Road 7, running off the road and turning over on the truck’s passenger side. The load of logs breached the tractor cab and Albritton died in the cab.

The jury found that the cab guard on the tractor was defectively designed and manufactured, and ruled against the alleged manufacturer.

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Albritton was driving a 1997 truck. Other defendant companies either settled out of court or received summary judgment (dismissal).

Barko Names Larsen As President Barko Hydraulics, LLC has named Joel Larsen as president, overseeing all company activities from operations to strategic planning to commercial sales.

Prior to joining Barko, Larsen held various senior leadership roles in the industrial and manufacturing sector with Ford Motor Co., BP and most recently with Navistar International. Larsen holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan.

“It’s a very exciting time in the forestry market, and I’m proud to be joining Barko, a proven industry innovator,” Larsen says. “Our team is committed to producing the highest performing and most durable machines for loggers and land clearing professionals. I look forward to leading the charge.” ➤ 53

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Injury May Exist Says Commission United States International Trade Commission (USITC) has determined that there is a reasonable indication that the U.S. softwood lumber industry is materially injured by reason of imports from Canada that are allegedly subsidized and sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.

As a result of the Commission’s affirmative determinations, the U.S. Dept. of Commerce will continue to

conduct its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, with its countervailing duty determination due in February and its preliminary antidumping duty determination due in May. The Committee Overseeing Action for Lumber International Trade Investigations or Negotiations (COALITION) had petitioned the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission in November, alleging that Canadian provincial governments, which own the vast bulk of Canada’s timberlands, provide standing trees to Canadian producers for an administered

fee that is far below the market value of the timber, as well as a number of other subsidies. In addition, the COALITION alleges that Canadian lumber is being sold for less than fair value in the United States.

The petition details the injury suffered by U.S. industry and workers.

In the immediate aftermath of the expiration of the 2006-2015 U.S.Canada Softwood Lumber Trade Agreement, Canadian imports surged from 29.5% of U.S. total consumption in the third quarter of 2015 to 33.1% in the fourth quarter of the same year and to 34.1% in 2016.

COALITION Executive Director

Zoltan van Heyningen comments, “Considering the facts at hand and the clear harmful impact of unfairly traded Canadian softwood lumber imports, we were not surprised by this preliminary outcome.”

British Columbia Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson comments, “These are allegations that, time after time, have been proven to be false before NAFTA and World Trade Organization tribunals. BC’s forest policies are trade compliant. This issue can be resolved only with a fair, negotiated trade agreement with the United States, not more litigation.”

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COMING EVENTS February 10-12—South Carolina Timber Producers Assn. annual meeting, DoubleTree by Hilton Myrtle Beach Oceanfront, Myrtle Beach, SC. Call 803-957-9919; visit scloggers.com.

24-25—Carolina Loggers Assn. annual meeting, Hilton Wilmington Riverside, Wilmington, NC. Call 828-421-8444; visit ncloggers.com.

March 1-5—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers annual meeting, The Diplomat Resort & Spa, Hollywood, Fla. Call 336-885-8315; visit appalachianwood.org.

22-24—Hardwood Manufacturers Assn. National Conference & Expo, Francis Marion Hotel, Sundance Square, Charleston, SC. Call 412-244-0440; visit hmamembers.org.

April 4-6—Kentucky Forest Industries Association annual meeting, Embassy Suites, Lexington, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org.

May 2-4—Forest Resources Assn. annual meeting, Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC. Call 202-296-3937; visit forestresources.org.

3-7—Virginia Forestry Assn. Summit, Roanoke, Va. Call 804-2788733; visit vaforestry.org.

June 2-3—Southeastern Wood Producers Assn. Trade Show and annual meeting, Jekyll Island Conference Center, Jekyll Island, Ga. Call 904-8457133; visit swpa.ag.

14-16—Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 504-443-4464; visit sfpaexpo.com.

July 21-23—Georgia Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Jekyll Island Convention Center, Jekyll Island, Ga. Call 912635-6400; visit gfagrow.org.

21-23—Missouri Forest Products Assn./Missouri Loggers Council annual meeting, Lake of the Ozarks, Camdenton, Mo. Call 816-6305500; visit moforest.org.

August 17-20—Virginia Loggers Assn. annual meeting, The Inn at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Call 804677-4290; visit valoggers.org.

25-26—Southwest Forest Products Expo 2017, Hot Springs Convention Center, Hot Springs, Ark. Call 501224-2232; visit arkloggers.com.

29-31—Louisiana Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Hilton Riverside New Orleans, New Orleans, La. Call 318-443-2558; visit laforestry.com.

September 10-12—Alabama Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Perdido Beach Resort, Orange Beach, Ala. Call 334-265-8733; visit alaforestry.org.

15-16—Kentucky Wood Expo, Masterson Station Park, Lexington, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org.

15-16—Mid-Atlantic Logging & Biomass Expo, Selma/Smithfield, NC. Call 919-271-9050; visit malbexpo.com.

28-30—American Loggers Council annual meeting, Natchez Grand Hotel, Natchez Convention Center, Natchez, Miss. Call 409-625-0206.

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