Aaron Street With Aaron Street Logging Recognized As FRA’s Appalachian Region Outstanding Logger Award Winner
Greensboro, NC, October 16, 2024 – The Forest Resources Association (FRA) honored Aaron Street of Aaron Street Logging from Sinks Grove, WV, as the 2024 Appalachian Region Outstanding Logger Award winner at FRA’s 2024 Joint Appalachian & Southeastern Region / Forest Products Security Group Fall Meeting held in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bill Dempsey, Area Manager with Weyerhaeuser and Chair of FRA’s Appalachian Region Steering Committee, presented Aaron with an engraved cherry and black walnut hardwood cross-cut saw award. Bill described their mechanized equipment spread and their high quality of work.
The FRA Outstanding Logger Awards, sponsored by STIHL, Inc., presented Aaron and his family with a $500 check along with a voucher for a STIHL MS 462 chain saw as part of the award package. Aaron graciously accepted the award for his family and the entire Aaron Street Logging team.
Pictured left to right: Michelle, Peyton, Noah, and Aaron Street.
Pictured left to right: Jeff Jenkins, FRA Appalachian Region Consultant, Aaron Street, Aaron Street Logging, Scott Heseltine, STIHL, and Bill Dempsey, Weyerhaeuser and FRA Appalachian Region Steering Committee Chair.
Aaron Street Logging, founded by Aaron in 2005, has grown into a fully mechanized operation. The company specializes in selective harvesting, hardwood thinnings, and clearcuts. Annually, they produce an impressive 2,000,000 board feet of sawlogs and 35,000 tons of pulpwood and other products. Most of their work is on commercially owned timberland in WV.
FRA Appalachian Region Consultant Jeff Jenkins stated, “Aaron Street Logging is a company that takes pride in their work and always puts the safety of their employees first. They’re a high production operation that makes attention to detail a high priority.”
About Forest Resources Association (FRA)
FRA is an association representing the interests of more than 330 organizations and businesses in the forest products industry, including forest landowners, suppliers, consuming mills, associated businesses, and state forestry associations. Members all share a common interest – they rely on FRA to promote the public policy interests of the forest products industry’s supply chain on Capitol Hill and our work to advance safety, operational and technical efficiencies, and supply chain relations. FRA has member representation in 49 states and 384 Congressional Districts.
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