The Northern Logger
Every month, we keep you abreast of logging and processing noteworthy ideas and questions.
- Update frequency
- every 32 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 65
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Mike Thurlow Shares Lessons from a Logging Career
Mike shares his path into a career of running a one-person logging operation, his choice to stay non-mechanized and how Game of Logging revolutionized his safety practices.
Let's Talk About Health and Safety
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…
The Faces of The Industry
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”!
Jay O'Hern On The History of Adirondack Logging
Thank you to our fantastic sponsor, John Deere!
Forest Regeneration and Deer Management
We speak with Peter Smallidge, NYS Extension Forester, about a new idea in forest management: slash walls for managing the deer population.
Log Trucking in the Adirondacks for Half a Century
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!
An Update on Global Hardwood Trade
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 th…
Kevin Braman: A Vermont 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 …
Rick Hearne on Starting One of the Largest Specialty Lumberyards in the World
https://www.hearnehardwoods.com for speciality lumber
Thank you to our generous sponsor, John Deere!
So, How Is the Industry Faring?
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, pro…
Candra Burns on Communication and Women Leadership in the Wood Products Industry
Candra Burns on Communication and Women Leadership in the Wood Products Industry