logging
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Lower interest rates available for some logging equipment
The new initiative is designed to save Vermont loggers money.
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Forest Services faces pushback on Telephone Gap plan
A recently approved logging plan that would manage over 72,000 acres of woodland, some in the Green Mountain National Forest, is facing resistance from environmental groups.
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Telephone Gap logging project is taking shape
After years of debate, the U.S. Forest Service issued a draft plan last week for managing more than 72,000 acres of public and private land, called the Telephone…
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Letter to the editor: Timber harvesting strategy steeped in good reasons
I’m writing to express my dismay at the misinformation again being spread about the Telephone Gap timber project. Timber harvesting on the Green Mountain National Forest is good…
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Climate Matters: As climate crisis rages, Green Mt. National Forest misses the boat
It is widely understood that cutting mature forests is bad for the climate. Last year the public responded with over 1,300 comments against logging and less than 100…
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Letter to the editor: Logging, including on Snake Mt., boosts biodiversity
“The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department began to acquire land for Snake Mountain WMA in 1959 from the A. Johnson Lumber Company, which has reserved timber rights.”
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Letter to the editor: Questions on Snake Mt. work
I was appalled to read the letter from J. Beamish about the destruction on the east side of Snake Mountain due to what looks like unwise logging that…
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Letter to the editor: Snake Mountain logging follows accepted practices
The letter by J. Beamish dramatically misrepresents what is happening on Snake Mountain on the timber rights that my family owns and have harvested on for many years.
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Community forum: Careful logging actually a boon
As one of the owners of a lumber mill in Bristol, I certainly have an interest in the harvest and the overall principles at stake. I also have…
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Graduation 2022: Mount Abe students place at logging competition
Looking back on a competition he took part in late last month, Mount Abraham Union High School senior Ian Goodyear said his nerves had more to do with…
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Letter to the editor: Tree farmers advocate for harvesting wood
Harvesting wood plays an important role in reducing global warming.
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Letter to the editor: Support urged for increased land conservation
Given our climate crisis, the trees in our state and national forests should not be logged but allowed to mature so that they can sequester and store planet-warming…
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Letter to the editor: Opposition to logging in national forests is misguided, hypocritical
I strongly support current and future logging in the Green Mountain National Forest.
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Groups critical of logging in national forests
The Climate Forest campaign, which is supported by 70 organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Biological Diversity, is calling on the Biden administration…