The Northern Logger

Mike Monte, Logging Journalist The Northern Logger

Let's Talk About Health and Safety The Northern Logger Erika Scott and Liane Hirabayashi from the Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety discuss their takeaways from logger health screenings and research. Hear about their Maine Logger Health Study and learn about how you can be healthier working in the woods. Thank you to our awesome sponsor, John Deere!

The Faces of The Industry The Northern Logger This month, we interview Chris Crowe of Timberwolf Logging, 2020’s NELA Award Winner for “Outstanding Use of Wood” and P&R Lumber, winner for “Outstanding Sawmill Operator”!

Thank you to our fantastic sponsor, John Deere! Jay O'Hern On The History of Adirondack Logging The Northern Logger

Forest Regeneration and Deer Management The Northern Logger We speak with Peter Smallidge, NYS Extension Forester, about a new idea in forest management: slash walls for managing the deer population.

Lake Ontario Logging: Johnson Forest Management The Northern Logger

Log Trucking in the Adirondacks for Half a Century The Northern Logger Download We spoke with longtime log trucker Jim Reynolds of Thurman, NY about the ins and outs of log trucking in the Adirondacks. Thanks to our generous sponsor, John Deere!

Global Hardwood Update The Northern Logger While the American hardwood sector has managed to hold its own over the past year of global trade, no one predicted the changes that 2020 would bring to the forest products economy. To catch up on the state of international hardwood trade, The Northern Logger podcast spoke with Mike Snow of the American Hardwood Export Council and Dana Cole of the Hardwoo...

Kevin Braman: A Vermont Logger The Northern Logger On this month’s Northern Logger podcast, we interviewed Kevin Braman, a logger in Central Vermont who works by himself and uses a chainsaw and skidder to get the job done. We spoke with Braman about his 35 years in the business and what he has learned about caring for the woods and growing good timber.

The Future of Artificial Intelligence in North American Sawmills The Northern Logger

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So, How Is the Industry Faring? The Northern Logger It has been a rocky year for log and lumber markets, to say the least. In this month’s podcast, we give an update on the state of the industry in the northeast and talk to friends of the podcast, procurement forester Allan Ryder and logger Andy Clark , about the state of things.

Candra Burns on Communication and Women Leadership in the Wood Products Industry

This month we spoke to Tom Eichler, who works in Sales for mills here in New York. It’s no secret that the US hardwood market is heavily reliant on China’s imports. Eichler talks about the impact the trade war has had on the mills he works for and how this trade dispute looks different than a recession.

In this episode, Northern Logger Editor Eileen Townsend takes a recorder around the annual Great Lake Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo in Escanaba, MI. She catches up with our northern correspondent Mike Monte, chats with a logging father and his son, a longtime logging yooper and Henry Schienebeck, the organizer behind the annual expo. This episode is sponsored by John Deere. Subscriptions, questio...

We spent the day at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, speaking with two researchers -- Elizabeth Studer and Laurel Symes -- about their work at the historic site for forest research. We spoke with Studer and Symes about the future of the ash tree and what will happen when ash goes extinct, bioacoustics and birdsong, what “biogeochemistry” is, and the hi...