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Free Markets and the Logging Industry: What do Logging Rates Tell Us about Logging Capacity?

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations

One scene in the Oscar-nominated movie The Revenant, features a group of trappers being pursued by a hostile party while trying to carry their injured colleague (Leonardo DiCaprio in an Oscar-winning role as a bear’s chew toy). The leader of more…

Automation and the Logging Industry: Is Paul Bunyan retiring?

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Shawn Baker | comment (1) in Forest Operations, Forest Technology

A few recent stories about automation pertain to the logging sector. First came a report by the World Economic Forum that automation might replace 5 million jobs in the next five years. While hardly a new trend, it seems to more…