by Tim Cox | Oct 21, 2025 | 2025, Fire Mitigation, Forest Management, New Technology, Research & Innovation, September/October 2025, TimberWest Magazine, Wildfire
South San Francisco, California – California experienced its worst fire season in 2020. Residents in the San Francisco Bay region contended with widespread smoke and smoky, orange-tainted skies. Two men with no background in forestry, both residents of the region,...
by Paul MacDonald | Aug 29, 2025 | 2025, Fire Mitigation, Forest Management, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, July/August 2025, New Technology, Research & Innovation
Photos by Michelle Nortje The newspaper headlines this summer are familiar from previous summers, but they are no less tragic: thousands of people suddenly being evacuated due to forest fires, hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest lands lost to out-of-control...
by Forestnet | Aug 29, 2025 | 2025, July/August 2025, New Technology, Sawmill, TimberWest Magazine
NORTH BEND, Oregon – Southport Lumber continues to evolve and continues to make use of every speck of fiber from a log. In its latest evolution, the company – faced with a setback – embarked on a new initiative and capital investment to tap an unreached market....
by Tony Kryzanowski | Jun 27, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, May/June 2025, New Technology, Research & Innovation, Trucking
Log truck platooning—where two or more log trucks transport logs from harvest sites on resource roads with only one qualified log truck driver in the lead vehicle and the following vehicles responding through the use of drive-by-wire communication technology to his...
by Forestnet | Jun 13, 2025 | 2025, May/June 2025, New Technology, Supplier Newsline, TimberWest Magazine
Bailey’s has delivered a customized Ponsse forwarder with a BRUKS chipper that will be used to help supply a pellet plant with raw material. The Ponsse Buffalo King forwarder has an extended chassis with a BRUKS 806.3 mobile chipper mounted on it. The project to...
by Forestnet | Jun 13, 2025 | 2025, May/June 2025, New Technology, Steep Slope, Supplier Newsline, TimberWest Magazine
Tigercat The Tigercat 120 winch assist is fully integrated with all latest generation Tigercat steep slope capable carriers, providing seamless communications and optimal hydraulic efficiency. It is also designed to work without travel signal integration. The basic...
