What You Need to Work in Forest Management If working among the trees with heavy tools and machinery sounds like your kind of career, you may want to consider looking into a career in logging and forest management. Although, if you feel more comfortable behind a desk, there are opportunities for you, too. But, what […]

A Brief History of Logging Services (Part 1) Logging services and forest management have been around for a long time. Although they may not be what we’re familiar with now, practices in agriculture cultivation are some of the oldest talents that humanity has developed. Much of the landscape that surrounds us now is thanks to […]

You’re Probably Wrong About Logging For a lot of reasons, many people have a lot of misconceptions about the logging industry and general forest management. Unfortunately, due to past unethical practices by a lot of other forest management companies, many of these assumptions tend to be pretty negative. Forest services are often seen as damaging […]

How Dangerous Is Working in Logging? If you’ve never worked in the logging industry, you might only have a vague idea of what being a logger is. There’s definitely a common perception that it’s difficult and dangerous work – but just how risky is it? Turner Logging looks at some of the risks of working […]

Selection Cutting Timber Harvesting Explained Selection cutting is an extremely balanced and structured timber harvest method that logging and forest management companies use to maintain a forest. Unlike any other timber harvest method, selection cutting allows tree farmers to keep trees of different ages in their forest. Most other forms of forest management only allow […]

Shelterwood Timber Harvesting Explained Not every timber harvest technique works well for both large and small forested areas. A logging service needs to know which methods will produce the yield that the client wants. Shelterwood timber harvesting works extremely well for small farmers. If you want to spread out your harvest over a long period […]

Clearcutting Timber Harvesting Explained The most economically profitable and the historically most popular timber harvesting technique, clearcutting, has taken a lot of flack in recent years. Like most methods and aspects of forest management, clearcutting can have both a positive and a negative impact. For years, loggers and settlers used this method to clear large […]

What Are the Benefits of Logging? The wood harvesting industry gets a bad rap sometimes. Many people immediately think of deforestation and the destruction of the rainforest when they hear the word logging. These terrible things happen, but at Turner Logging, we think of ourselves as more of a forest management company. We harvest trees, […]

 Logging Info: Unique Ways that People Utilize Timber Everyone probably knows that timber is used when making paper and furniture, but timber has far more applications than that. Everyone loves the beautiful, natural look of wood, so timber has been integrated into a variety of products to give them that one of a kind look. […]

Differences in Clear Cutting and Selective Logging Service Our logging service primarily consists of two logging methods; clear-cutting and selective logging. We’ve gone over this services a bit in the past, but today we’ll delve a little deeper. A combination of these two methods is the ideal way to create a healthy forest that yields […]