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Logging Infrastructure Northeast Safety Transportation

Changing Highway Truck Weight Limits Can Be Safer for Everyone

Truck weight limits are a frequent topic of policy debates in...

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Logging Employment Changes in Two Alabama Markets Following Closure of Pulp Mill.
Lake States Logging Infrastructure Markets Operations Southcentral

Mill Closures Impacts on Logging Businesses in the Lake States – What Can We Learn from an Alabama Case Study

During the pandemic, the demand for printing and writing paper dropped...

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Logging Infrastructure Safety Training Transportation

Resolve to Improve Trucking Safety in 2021

FRA members often identified trucking challenges—especially driver shortages, high insurance rates,...

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Logging Infrastructure Western Workforce

Einari Vidgrén Foundation

The Einari Vidgrén Foundation gives out annual awards to increase the...

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Dale Erickson outside his office located near Baudette, MN.
Lake States Logging Infrastructure

Erickson Timber Products, Inc—Established 1975

In Baudette, MN, the winters are long and cold. Baudette, known...

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Bruce and Kathy Barnes
Appalachian Logging Infrastructure Training

FRA Awards for Operational Innovations

FRA’s regional and national awards programs recognize outstanding loggers and authors...

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FRA LSR Outstanding Logger 2020 Fjeran Forest Products. In picture (L-R) Blake Fjeran, his wife Sue, daughters Sasha and Sarah, and son Brock. Sue does the books, while Brock joined the company full-time after graduating from high school in 2018
Additional Policy Priority Lake States Logging Infrastructure Markets Operations

FRA Lake States Region Meeting Addresses Impacts of the Pandemic to Timber Industry Lake States Region Outstanding Logger of 2020 Recognized

The FRA Lake States Region (LSR) convened a virtual meeting to...

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Lake States Logging Infrastructure Markets

Lake States Winter Harvest Season has a Much Different Outlook than Last Year

As loggers and procurement foresters prepare for the 2020-2021 winter harvest...

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Photo: Joe Conrad, Assistant Professor of Forest Operations at the Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources at the University of Georgia
Logging Infrastructure Operations Southeastern Transportation

Joe Conrad: FRA’s National Technical Writing Award Winner

Washington, DC. - The Forest Resources Association (FRA) honored Dr. Joe...

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Logging Infrastructure Southeastern

Tapscott Brothers Logging, Inc: FRA’s 2020 National Outstanding Logger

On August 22, the Forest Resources Association (FRA) and STIHL Incorporated...

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