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For over sixty years the Northeastern Loggers Association has published a highly respected monthly magazine that focuses exclusively on our region – The Northern Logger and Timber Processor. NELA also produces training programs, pamphlets and books, and the region’s largest exposition of forest products and tree care equipment. If you are interested in becoming a member, please click the link below.
Features
Selected articles from The Northern Logger & Timber Processor magazine.
Extreme Weather BMPs
Innovation captures our attention with breakthrough technologies – computerized log processing, wooden skyscrapers, or medical treatment using cellulose nanofibers. However, the overwhelming majority of innovations are incremental. It may be imperceptible if not looking closely, but small innovations compile and synergize.
Best Management Practices (BMPs) for water and soil protection are a great example of incremental innovation
Grants, Assistance Programs, and Free Resources
In these challenging economic times, when many businesses are hanging on by a thread, it’s important to remember that there is help out there – in the form of monetary assistance, training, and education to help improve profit margins. Some examples include a Working Lands Enterprise Initiative grant that will become available to Vermonters this October – it’s a business enhancement grant that can be used to cover a range of things, from forestry equipment to logging supplies and more. Also starting in October, are Forest Business School educational classes (limited spots) that teach business management skills. There are plenty more on the national level, too.
Yankee Mat And the Removable Road
If you’ve had it with bad news, this story is for you.
The past several years have seen a boom in powerline transmission projects and windmill construction in the North Country, as humanity’s dependence on an increasingly more intricate electrical grid has experienced not only growth but also growing pains. And these projects use a lot of crane mats. Mats are used and laid across anywhere that is wet in the forest so that they displace the weight of a machine, reducing soil compaction and eliminating soil erosion. A lot of the crane mats used locally are made in Lewis, New York, from local material, crafted into portable, reusable roads and bridges at Yankee Mat Company.
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