Before modern logging machinery became widespread, powerful draft horses played an essential role in moving heavy timber ...

The dynamics of the 21st century global marketplace can be found everywhere, even a remote mountainside in the far reaches of western Virginia, where Ben Harris and his crew are harvesting large tulip ...

Oregon’s last horse logger and a family of foresters look to the future by carrying on a legacy of the past. Jamming a metal skidding tong into a log, Roger Daugherty draws the slack from his driving ...

If you have a woodlot of 10-acres or less, bulldozing your way through it to take out a few trees can do more harm than good. Using horses to haul logs out of the timber allows you to be selective ...

When Brad Johnson and Derek O’Toole talk about horsepower, they’re talking about actual horse power. The two men are co-owners of Third Branch Horse Logging, of Braintree, which uses draft horses for ...

Learn about logging with horses as well as modern-day logging operations. To start off our logging journey, we visit with Jason Rutledge in Floyd County, Virginia, digging deep into the old practice ...

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - For students at the Hiland Hall School, forestry came to life Friday in a demonstration of logging work with two full-size black Percheron horses: Belle and Bright. Jared ...

Some may be surprised to find out the Blackwater Creek system is a critical stormwater basin, and has taken a beating from decades of increasing urban runoff. “As development has happened over the ...

Third Branch Horse Logging cuts fewer trees per acre than many other logging companies. In addition to cutting fewer tress per acre, the total number of trees that can be harvested in a day is much ...