TTIMBERIMBER TTALKALK Your Voice for South Carolina Timber Harvesting September/October 2011 American Loggers Council Inside ... ALC Annual Meeting in Wisconsin Cover Holds Annual Meeting in As We See It … October 3 Wisconsin As We See It … November 4 ALC at Texas Motor Speedway 5 October 10, 2011 – Hemphill, TX: American Loggers Council Presi- LA Logging Council Accesses Research 6 dent, Matt Jensen and the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Associa- tion hosted the American Loggers Council 17th Annual Meeting in Mi- Member Reminder - 45-Day Tags 7 nocqua, Wisconsin on September 29-October 1, 2011. Nominations Needed - 2012 Board 9 The three-day conference drew a large attendance of over 200 Professional Timber Harvesters and representatives from the industry 2012 Annual Meeting 10 that supports the Council from across the nation. White House Press Release 11 Events opened up with a falls color tour on Thursday morning, SCTPA Annual Meeting Schedule 12 hosted by Caterpillar Forest Products where a group of 100+ atten- dees were able to board buses in Minocqua and head south to Pren- 2011 Logger Activist Award 13 tice for a tour of the Caterpillar owned Prentice Facility in Prentice, 2012 Annual Meeting Registration 14 Wisconsin. The “Welcome Reception” on Thursday evening was sponsored by Bituminous Insurance at the Waters of Minocqua Hotel. Safety Alert - Cold Weather Logging 16 Following breakfast sponsored by Blount, Inc., Friday brought the SC BMP Program Alert 17 opportunity to attend a logging demonstration hosted by Komatsu For- est during which Kurt Moncini lead discussions and gave information Ruling Could Lead to Endless Litigation 20 on some of the latest equip- Fall District Meeting Sponsors 20 ment and technology being Welcome New Members 20 produced by Komatsu Forest. The sale being harvested Mt. View Farm & Poles 21 was a State Forest Sale and Forest Roads as Point Source Pollution 22 foresters from the State DNR Forestry & Isolated Wetlands in SC 24 were on hand to explain the type of harvest that was tak- Reminder - Immigration Compliance 27 ing place as well as the man- SCTPA to Accept Credit Card Payments 27 agement plan for the sur- Jim Hudson Automotive Partnership 28 Wisconsin in the Fall rounding area. A special area was set aside to discuss the Apology 28 Emerald Ash Borer and the treatment process while harvesting the Master Logger Certification Committee Mtg. 30 trees. All of the stumpage that was harvested was processed and de- livered to the mills and the value of the stumpage was donated to the Images from Wisconsin 31 Log-A-Load For Kids® program benefiting the Children’s Miracle Net- Mid-Atlantic Biomass & Logging Expo Photos 32 work hospitals in Wisconsin. The ladies traveled to Manitowish Waters, WI on Friday for a spe- John Deere - ALC Press Release 34 cial cranberry bog tour and then were treated to lunch at the famous Little Bohemia Lodge. The ladies tours on Friday and Saturday were NTSB Recommends Banning Cell Phones 35 hosted by Forestry Mutual Insurance. Verizon Offers for SCTPA Members 35-37 (Continued on page 2) Overregulation Summary 38 Mark Your Calendar 43 (Continued from page 1) delegate, Ken Martin – Mississippi; and, Western All attendees were reunited Friday afternoon in delegate, Mark Turner – Oregon. Woodruff, Wisconsin and treated to a special lum- Two resolutions were adopted by the members berjack competition at Fred Sheer’s Lumberjack of the American Loggers Council during the meeting show. Swamp Logger Bobby Goodson from North that included supporting competition in the forest Carolina and his wife Lori were on hand to enjoy the products industry and supporting bringing family competition. STIHL Incorporated hosted the event. members into the logging profession at an earlier Friday was capped off with a reception and din- age. ner at the hotel hosted by Ko- Saturday morning also brought the Annual Mem- matsu Forestry and the Koma- bership meeting. All individuals wishing to partici- tsu Financial. Wisconsin State pate in the discussions were invited to attend the Representative Tom Tiffany meeting. Nate Clark with John Deere explained and U.S. Representative Sean Deere’s role in promoting the ALC thru various ad- Duffy were on hand during the vertising platforms and volunteered to Chair the reception and dinner and made membership committee of presentations to the group on the ALC. The membership both state and federal issues meeting was hosted by Tim- pertaining to the forest products berPro. industry. Following the dinner, The Saturday Awards the ALC Annual Auction was Luncheon, sponsored by Pe- held and over $18,000 dollars terbilt, recognized all of the were raised in the event which US Representative Associate members that sup- helps support the projects and Sean Duffy port the goals and programs programs of the American Log- of the American Loggers gers Council. Council. Doug Duncan, Di- Saturday morning, ALC members were up early rector for the North Carolina again for a Saturday breakfast sponsored by Mauck Association of Professional Insurance. The ALC Board of Directors also got Loggers was presented with NCAPL’s Doug down to business. The ALC Board of Directors and the President’s Award for Duncan receives Executive Committee met to discuss Finances, Leg- 2011, recognizing his service President Award islative, Communications, Transportation and ALC to the ALC as chair of the transportation committee Master Logger Certification® program issues. and establishing a national forest products website The ALC Board of Directors welcomed Vermeer- for log trucking regulations. Outgoing ALC Directors Wisconsin as the latest Allen Ribelin from Arizona and Max Eric- Associate Member of the son from Wisconsin were received ser- American Loggers Council. vice awards. Jim Mooney, representing During the meeting, a Hatton-Brown Publishers presented Max slate of officers for the Ericson and family, Ericson Logging and 2011/2012 term was voted Ericson Trucking, LLC, with the Logging on. Logger Steve Sherich Business of the Year Award. from Hayden Lake, Idaho Saturday evening began with a recep- was elected to serve as the tion sponsored by Tigercat. Jerry Smeak new ALC President. Log- with Tigercat was on hand to welcome ger Travis Taylor of Gol- ALC members at the reception. Max Ericson & family donna, Louisiana was Caterpillar Forest Products and Cat Fi- elected to serve as 1st Vice President of the organi- nancial hosted the Saturday night dinner and visited zation. Rounding out the elections, logger Brian Nel- with the attendees and helped kick off the events of son from Michigan and logger Myles Anderson from the evening. One of the highlights of the evening California will serve as 2nd Vice President and Sec- was the roll out of the new ALC logo and what it retary/Treasurer, respectively. Regional Directors to means to those loggers that the American Loggers serve on the Executive Committee include North- Council represents. The development of a new web- east delegate, Dan Keniston - New Hampshire; Mid site is also in the works with in-kind contributions West delegate, Shannon Jarvis - Missouri; Southern being made available by John Deere. Caterpillar Forest Products donated $3,000 to the ALC to be (Continued on page 3) Page 2 TIMBER TALK SEPT/OCT 2011 (Continued from page 2) estry Group, Komatsu Forest, Komatsu Financial, used in the development of the web site. Michigan Mauck Insurance, Norco Equipment, Tigercat, Logger Jim Carey announced that Bandit Industries TimberPro, Peterbilt, and Ponsse. would be making a contribution towards ALC efforts following the meetings as well. Members of the American Loggers Council wish The meeting adjourned when ALC President to thank the many sponsors and associate mem- Matt Jensen of Crandon, Wisconsin, passed the bers of the Council who help to make the Annual gavel to incoming President Steve Sherich from Meeting a continued success and support this pro- Hayden Lake, Idaho. During his acceptance fession that we call logging. speech, President Sherich identified several goals for the coming year; including more aggressively The American Loggers Council is a non-profit 501(c)(6) pursuing the identity of the ALC as being the uni- organization representing timber harvesting profession- fied national voice for professional loggers. als in 30 states. For more information contact the Sponsors for the Annual Meeting included Bitu- American Loggers Council office at 409-625-0206 or visit minous Insurance, Blount Industries, Caterpillar their website at www.americanloggers.org. Forest Products, Cat Financial, Forestry Mutual Insurance, Georgia-Pacific, LLC, John Deere For- AS WE SEE IT ... AMERICAN LOGGERS COUNCIL EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT DANNY DRUCTOR October 2011 mitting process and citizen’s lawsuits. Delays could lead to mill closures, loss of jobs, and The Silviculture Regulatory conversion of the forestlands for other uses. At a Consistency Act time when our industry is reeling under the devas- CALL NOW! tation caused by poor housing markets, high un- employment, and continued loss of mill infrastruc- n August 17, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of ture, to add additional regulatory burdens that O Appeals determined that forest roads and could further weaken our ability to access both their stormwater runoff gathering systems (ditches, public and private timberlands and the ability of a culverts) are point sources subject to National Pol- private landowner to harvest timber from their lutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) per- property makes absolutely no sense. mits. In recent months, The American Loggers Coun- Shortly after passage of the Clean Water Act cil, working with many other organizations such as (CWA) in 1972, the Environmental Protection the National Alliance of Forest Owners and the For- Agency (EPA) concluded that forestry activities are est Landowners Association, has been working to nonpoint sources most effectively managed secure support from members of Congress for the through best management practices (BMP’s) estab- passage of the Silviculture Regulatory Consistency lished through the states rather than through fed- Act, H.R.