Idaho Logging safety representative Shawn Ogden (center, orange vest) describes why using a machine called a cable assisted feller buncher is safer on steep slopes than logging with sawyers on the ground. The safety talk was a stop on a 2022 tour of the Rocky Goose Timber sale on the New Meadows Ranger District attended by the Payette Forest Coalition. PFC members include Woodgrain representative Rachel Vandenberg (left), John Lewinski, Charlie Caruso, Joe Mahon of Mahon Logging in Council and former Adams County Commissioner Mike Paradis. Photo courtesy of the Payette National Forest
BY MAX SILVERSONThe Star-News The group largely responsible for planning tens of thousands of acres of restoration and timber harvest projects on the Payette National…
