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 ...

Babe is a muscular white draft horse weighing in at 1,700 pounds, and he’s a very good boy. He waits, untethered, while his owner, Scott Stevens, disappears around a brushy curve in a skid road, ...

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 ...

Logging and forest industries have a rich and storied past in the North Country. And while the heyday of logging in the Adirondacks is over,... Feb 24, 2021 — Logging and forest industries have a rich ...

No chippers, grinders or massive diesel engine trucks are needed to clear away fallen trees from last month’s storm, as long as Tim Carroll is around. Carroll, of Lyle, prefers to do his work the ...

This is what work looks like. Not the eye-glazing key pecking that most of us call work. Not the endless sitting and clicking and tapping. This is work: a man and two huge horses, moving trees. A huge ...

This 1920s film captures the full lifecycle of logging and paper production in the snowy United States. Beginning with scenes of men and horses working in a snow-covered village, the film shows the ...