Logging Operations

Forest harvesting involves falling and processing merchantable timber into logs. Each log is cut to a specific length then transported to designated wood-processing facilities where it is utilized for lumber, plywood, pulp or other wood applications.

Harvesting can be used to achieve a number of different objectives for a landscape, including, but not limited to, managing disease or insect outbreak, wildfire risk reduction, stand resiliency, salvaging burnt or blown-down timber, or selectively spacing forest stands in close proximity of growing space.

Systems of harvesting include clearcut, commercial thin, selective, strip logging, right-of-way clearing or targeting disease or beetle infestations. Each harvest strategy is unique and based on stand level and landscape level characteristics.