Logging & Sawmilling Journal

Logging and Sawmilling Journal, founded in 1969, focuses on the entire timber industry, from small logging businesses to high-level executives managing advanced mills and biomass operations. It addresses topics relevant to both woodlands and timber processing.

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In the driver’s seat—for growth - Forestnet

2 weeks ago | forestnet.com | Tony Kryzanowski

by | Apr 30, 2025 | 2025, Logging & Sawmilling Journal, March/April 2025 “If you’re not growing, you’re not moving ahead.”That’s a statement that Kris and Jamie Brander, owners of the logging company Brander Enterprises in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, heard frequently from their father, Allen, as they grew up. “So…we are always growing,” says Kris Brander.
Cottage Country Lumber Alliance

2 weeks ago | forestnet.com | Tony Kryzanowski

A new chapter has opened for Ontario’s Haliburton Forest Group and Murray Bros. Lumber Company (MBLC), both manufacturers of hardwood and softwood lumber in the area known as Cottage Country north of Toronto and south of Algonquin Provincial Park. In June 2024, they entered into a business partnership.
Technology development and applied research supporting forest and afforestation production and sustainability

2 weeks ago | forestnet.com | Tony Kryzanowski

The Canadian Forest Service (CFS) has historically integrated—with great success—its science research with ongoing technology development and advanced forest and afforestation production and management system practices in co-operation with its research, development, forest industry practitioner, landowner, and stakeholder partners.
Now is the time to negotiate a new softwood lumber trade deal with the U.S.—and Trump - Forestnet

2 weeks ago | forestnet.com | Tony Kryzanowski

“This is the beginning of a negotiation.”Those were the words spoken by Prime Minister Mark Carney in March at the conclusion of his first phone call with American President Donald Trump.
Pivoting at Post & Purlin

2 weeks ago | forestnet.com | Paul MacDonald

Micheal Essex, the owner of Post & Purlin Forest Products, knows all about pivoting—he has done more than his fair share of pivoting since starting up the one-stop business that does sawmilling, reman, millwork, and cabinetry, and just about anything else made of wood, in Powell River, B.C. just over two years ago. Being able to pivot is usually one of the hallmarks of a small business—unlike larger companies, smaller businesses are able to shift on a dime, often on a nickle, if pressed.
California Logger Is Helping Sierra Pacific Salvage Timber

1 month ago | forestnet.com | Mary Bullwinkel

POLLOCK PINES, CALIFORNIA – Dan Arens and Son Inc., a logging contractor in northern California, is a key business partner to Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI). In recent years the loggers have been helping SPI salvage timber on forestland ravaged by fire. The Arens family has been in the logging business for more than 75 years, after Ken Arens bought a logging truck and began hauling logs in the Redding area in the early 1950s. His sons, Dan and Larry, worked for their father until the mid-1980s.
Fighting the Fibre Shortage in B.C.

2 months ago | forestnet.com | Paul MacDonald

There’s no doubt that there is a wood fibre shortage going on in B.C. right now, but forest company Kruger Inc., B.C. transportation company Arrow Transport and the Simpcw First Nations are combining forces with a whole log chipping operation in Kamloops, B.C.—River City Fibre—that is effectively battling the fibre shortage, and literally helping to keep the Kruger pulp mill in Kamloops in the chips, and more than 300 people employed at the mill.
Putting Forestry Equipment on Autopilot

2 months ago | forestnet.com | Tony Kryzanowski

Imagine that you are a heavy equipment operator working in the forest industry and instead of an equipment cab, your place of work is a control room a few blocks from home that is equipped with joysticks and a widescreen television monitor, projecting multiple screen images of a forest block or mill yard.
Heads Up: The First Alberta Equipment Expo is on its Way!

2 months ago | forestnet.com | Tony Kryzanowski

Increased industrial activity is attracting significantly more people to Alberta and driving greater demand for services like housing and development, while also providing good paying jobs often involving the use of heavy equipment, such as in the forest industry.
The Edge: Legacy research ready to pay dividends as new planning tools become part of standard forest management practices

2 months ago | forestnet.com | Tony Kryzanowski

As we stand on the precipice of the development of a new relationship between humanity and technology—with new tools that can answer questions by scouring information sources along the entire length and breadth of the worldwide web in minutes and with the ability to offer solutions—one caveat is clear. The quality of the answer is only going to be as good as the quality of the information sources tapped to obtain the answer.