Excerpt from USFS Chief Randy Moore Congressional Hearing. Shrinking timber industry: The timber industry's challenges, and reliance on national forests in places, was a recurring theme at the hearing. Merkley pointed to the recent closure or planned closure of five mills in Oregon, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) lamented the shrinking of the industry in Southeast Alaska around the Tongass. Moore said the industry has its challenges including tumbling demand for pulp used in paper, low lumber prices and scarce markets for low-value and small diameter trees. But he added, "I can tell you with certainty that if we do not have a vibrant timber industry, we are not going to be able to manage our forests and make them healthy and resilient." Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) noted that the subcommittee was “racing” into work on the FY 2025 spending bill, having just completing work on the 2024 budget. Noting that the Tongass was going to supply the Capitol Christmas tree this year, she noted the irony, saying “we can’t seem to throw a lifeline to the #timber industry’” in Southeast Alaska. She noted that the Administration has “made it nearly impossible to have a #sustainable regional timber industry,” and expressed disappointment in the failure to retain any industry in the State. “It is more than just another broken promise” to the region. She also expressed interest in how the #Forest Service “was using the major infusion of funding” from the IRA and IIJA. #saveamericanloggers #saveamericanforests #saveamericanjobs
About us
In October of 2004, a small group of insightful businessmen decided to do something about the rising costs associated with the logging industry. The plan was simple. By forming a cooperative to utilize the "strength in numbers" approach, as a group they would be able to negotiate better prices than they would individually. Founded on the premise of value for its members, Southern Loggers Cooperative (SLC) set out in 2004 to give independent loggers, truckers, farmers and ranchers a helping hand in the form of real bargaining power to meet the challenges of today’s market. The SLC is a member-owned cooperative association which provides expertise in negotiation and contract formulation for the membership, which is composed of harvesters of timber, haulers of forest products in the natural state, finished products or products for recycling, forest road contractors, silvicultural contractors, forest landowners, farmers, ranchers, horticulturists or viticulturists. The philosophy of this cooperative is that the membership must receive the most competitive prices for their supplies, services and equipment in order to thrive in this ever-changing industry. Today our cooperative-owned fueling stations stretch from Texas to Ohio with annual fuel sales of nearly 53 million gallons in 2021. Our growth has been explosive, but we’re far from finished. Saving our members money on fuel is our primary focus. We presently have 32 stations in 7 states including: AL, LA, MS, OH, SC, TX and VA. SLC membership has now reached over 5100 members spanning more than 27 states. Our members are part owners in a strong, independent organization with fantastic benefits. Future plans include even more fuel locations, services and deeper discounts. Our members save on fuel, tires, parts, and fuel transfer pumps; and now the SLC is proud to offer our members access to Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) at most stations.
- Website
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http://www.SouthernLoggers.com
External link for Southern Loggers Cooperative
- Industry
- Farming, Ranching, Forestry
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Pineville, LA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2004
- Specialties
- Loggers, Agricultural & Forest Products, Silvicultural Contractors, Forest Road Contractors, Forest Landowners, Recyclable Truckers, Farmers, Ranchers, Horticulturists, Viticulturists, and Member of other Agricultural Cooperatives
Locations
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1152 Expressway Drive
Pineville, LA 71360, US
Employees at Southern Loggers Cooperative
Updates
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We’re going to take a look at two catastrophic western wildfires, the 1933 Tillamook Fire that burned on the Oregon Coast and the 2021 Dixie Fire that burned in Northern California. The next, Dixie Fire started in the Feather River Canyon of Northern California. When finally contained on October 25, the Dixie had burned through 963,000 acres of Sierra Nevada forests and became the most expensive wildfire suppression effort in US history, costing $637.4 million. #thinthethreat #forestmanagement #saveamericanforests #americanloggers
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It's a choice: Manage the forests and enjoy the benefits or deal with the consequences - dead forests, burning forests, unhealthy forests, infested forests. Managed forests are healthy forests. #forestmanagement #thinthethreat #wildfire #wildfiremitigation #saveamericanforests #forestry #airquality #waterquality #savewildlife