December 2020 Issue VA Loggers Association News & Updates
The "WE" Factor Producing Great Results What’s Inside WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Thank you for recently joining Supporting Members THE VIRGINIA LOGGERS ASSOCIATION Page 4 Putting our members first and proudly serving the interests of Virginia loggers! ――― President's Corner Campbell-Rodgers Lumber Co. — North Garden, VA Page 7 ――― R. A. Yancey Lumber Corp. — Crozet, VA FRA's National Outstanding Logger Low Country Timber Corp. — Snow Hill, MD. Page 8 ――― Primm Logging, Inc. (Returning Member) — Appomattox, VA Don't Take Voting January April July October For Granted Special thanks to Forestry Mutual and VLA Members for Bringing our New members! SMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFS Page 10 Recruitment supports the heart & soul of our future! 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ――― 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 Bring a new member today! 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Director's5 6 7 Corner 8 9 10 11 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12 13Page 14 12 15 16 17 18 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 19 20――― 21 22 23 24 25 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 Virginia26 27 Department 28 29 30 31 25IMPORTANT 26 27 28 29 30 31 2021 DATES of Forestry Page 15 DEC 24 Christmas Eve ――― DEC 25 Christmas Day February May August November January April July October SHARP Logger DEC 31 New Year's Eve SMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSPage 17 JAN 1, 2021 New Year's Day MerrySMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFS JAN 13 Virginia General Assembly begins 1 1 2 ――― 1JAN 1 18 2 3 4Ma 5rtin Luther 6 7 King Jr. Day Christmas 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 2345678 3456789 2345678ALC Update FEB 89 14 10 11Va 12lentine's 13 14Day 3456789 456789 10 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Page 18 FEB 25-27 Annual Oregon Logging Conference and 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ――― Happy 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 16 17 18 19 20 21 22APR 22 30 23& MAY 24 1 25Mi 26d - Atlantic 27 28 Logging Expo 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Virginia Department MAY 21-22 Richmond Logging Expo New Year! 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 of 23Labor 24 and 25 26Industry 27 28 29AUG 29 5-8 30 VLA Annual Conference 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 30 31Page 20 AUG 6 Morning Legal Training 31 31 NOV 5 Legal and Safety Training ――― March June Setliff'sSeptember Law December January FebruaryApril MayJuly OctoberAugust November SMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSPage 22 SMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFSSMTWTFS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 ―――1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 31 4 25 36 1 2 31 1 2 3 4 51 6 27 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 6Tree 7 of 8 Life 9 10 11 12 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3456789 4567897 8 9 10 11 1210 13 42 53 64 75 86 9710 83 8 49 10 5 11 6 12 7 13 8 14 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Page 29 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1114 1215 1316 1417 1518 1619 1720 119 1210 1311 1412 1513 1614 1715 1015 1116 1217 1318 1419 1520 1621 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ――― 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1821 1922 2023 2124 2225 2326 2427 1816 1917 2018 2119 2220 2321 2422 1722 1823 1924 2025 2126 2227 2328 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Log-A-Load for Kids 29 30 31 28 29 30 27 28Events 29 30 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 2528 26 27 28 29 30 2523 2624 2725 2826 2927 3028 3129 2429 2530 2631 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 Page 31 31 30 31 31
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It should not be of any surprise to any of us that 2020 is going out with a roar. The record rainfall we have been experiencing has caused many of us to lose production and scramble for better ground. I know everyone is extremely busy, so I will try to keep this short.
As we proceed into 2021, I would like to use my space in this edition to praise the hard work of Ron Jenkins, our Executive Director. We have discussed many things in our board meetings over the years, but three topics seemed to keep coming up: interstate highway use, markets, and personal property tax on logging equipment. As most of you know by now, I hope, the General Assembly passed the code section last year that gave the counties the option of exempting our logging equipment. Ever since this went into law, Ron has tirelessly been writing letters and attending Board of Supervisors meetings all over the state.
The initial reception, as you can expect, is not always positive, but he has been persistent. We knew this was going to be a long process and it has proven to be just that. We are making progress, and we soon hope to have ten counties that have taken some kind of positive action. Ron and the Virginia Loggers Association have spent a lot of time and effort on this. If any of you have interest in your prop- erty taxes, and the desire to save some serious expense, give Ron a call. When your county meets to discuss this, your presence in the board room or contacting your local supervisor or county administrator, will help Ron tremendously. Thanks to all of you in advance.
As we start 2021, hopefully this new vaccine will work and we can all meet again at our annual meeting. Thanks again Ron!!
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At the time I am writing this, chance of winning Georgia. I thought Arizona was likely and the election was held a little under Pennsylvania possible, and I was very certain Biden would get two weeks ago. As it stands right Wisconsin and Michigan…but Georgia shocked me. now, it looks as though it didn’t go the way a great many of us would have Alabama, where I live, gave its 9 electoral votes to preferred. Or maybe it actually did; I President Trump. For a minute I thought Virginia would too, but know a lot of folks think that Trump it turned out Biden won the state’s 13 votes by taking the heavily actually did win and the Democrats populated areas around DC, Richmond and Norfolk. cheated somehow. I don’t know about all that…I don’t know if that’s even I know a lot of us find it hard to believe that roughly really possible to do, let alone get away with, on the scale it half the country voted for Biden. For me, traveling and talking to would take to pull off something of that magnitude, in multiple folks from all over as I do, I don’t find it hard to believe. I know districts, multiple states…and I have to wonder: if they could do that there’s an awful lot of Americans out there who, right or that, why not go ahead and give themselves the extra House and wrong, really do not like President Trump—just about as many, Senate seats while they’re at it? It seems unlikely to me, BUT, I overall, as there are who love him. It’s a funny thing; I’ve often also don’t see the harm in double and triple checking, recount- observed that he seems to be simultaneously the most popular ing, investigating any allegations of impropriety, just to let us all and the least popular President of my lifetime, and people feel feel confident we got the accurate results. And, if such a crime passionately about him on both extreme ends of the spectrum. did occur, I certainly hope and believe that it will come to light And on both sides, they have their reasons, some perhaps valid and be prosecuted. The will of the people, whichever way it goes, and others perhaps less so, but regardless, it’s their prerogative is sacred and must be safeguarded and honored, whatever the and they have a right to it—love him or hate him. I know that as results…even when we don’t like the results. popular as the still-current President is with so many people, he’s just as unpopular with about the same number on the other side. There might be something to those fraud allegations; there are some things going on in a few states that sound a little And that’s kind of the problem, as I see it. Unfortunately funny, at least. Maybe there’s something to it. At the time of this our country is still so divided—we the people are so divided. writing nothing has been proved yet but by the time you read And to me it appears that the divide is not primarily geographic, it, maybe more will have come out. Myself, I am all for investi- not northern states versus southern, but rather, big city versus gating and even recounting, not because I necessarily expect a rural/small town within each state. We tend to have different val- different result, but because I want all of us to be confident that ues and different priorities, indeed, different needs and interests, the results are in fact the true results, to be confident that the depending on where we live and make our living. But the fact system is honest. If it isn’t, we need to know that, whatever result is, in the city or in the country, in the north or in the south, the it yields. electoral numbers indicate and my own experience persuades me that the USA is about half and half, more or less equally divided As a lifelong student and observer of politics myself, I between those who wanted to grant President Trump another did my own research and analysis on Monday, November 2, the term and those who did not. Therefore, it’s no surprise to me day before the election. My gut instinct was that Trump would that this was a close election, nor that it could tip one way or the win, but I tried to remain as unbiased and objective as I could. To other. Every vote truly matters. my surprise, in every hypothetical situation I ran, the numbers favored Biden. That certainly didn’t mean he would win…no The divide isn’t even just Republican/conservative ver- one can know what will happen till it happens…but the numbers sus Democrat/liberal either. The division now seems to be Trump indicated a Biden win would be likely, or at least more likely than and anti-Trump. I personally know several lifelong conservative I had expected. It was one of the few times that my gut and my Republicans who just couldn’t get on board with Mr. Trump, for head were not on the same page. The end result was very similar various reasons. And it seems that both sides can’t understand to my simulations—except I never, ever thought Biden had a how the other side could ever think as they do.
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VLA News 8 We’re split in two and I don’t think I’ve EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S CORNER ever seen the animosity run this deep or this per- Ron Jenkins sonal for many of us. I hate it. I truly wish we could all be on board with and behind the same guy, but that’s not been our lot of late. Still, I wish we’d quit Goodbye 2020 and Welcome 2021! seeing each other as enemies; I long for the day Looking forward is much more fun even when you cannot predict the future. when we’re not 50% one way and 50% the other, but 100% Americans. We’re all on the same team, Perhaps the best we can look forward to is always bring our best “A game”. we all love our country, and we all basically want Doing our best and what is right has a unique place that really helps over- the same things; we just disagree on how best to get come steep challenges. there. We can have differences of opinion but still recognize that we have more in common, more that From my perspective as Virginia Loggers Association’s executive director, I binds us, than what divides us. As President Lin- have been given the opportunity to make a positive force for logging and our coln said after the Civil War—we are not enemies industry in general. It is one responsibility I feel proud and humbled to carry but friends. out at the same time. Despite how you feel about 2020, VLA is still standing strong. We accom- Seems like if you’re a Republican , or plished a lot and helped many of our members and friends along the way. worse, a Trump supporter, liberals will assume you’re a homophobic racist bigot or a fascist. And • In 2020, VLA stayed on track and regained membership strength as if you’re a liberal (which is basically a cuss word the end of 2020 approached. We are very grateful to Forestry Mutual where I come from; you’d almost rather someone and for all members who continue to support VLA. call you a dirty lying SOB than a liberal, it would be less insulting), or even if you’re a conserva- • Representative Spanberger spent over two hours attending our tive who just isn’t a Trump fan, your friends and January Board meeting! She was re-elected to Congress and we believe neighbors may have called you an un-American she will continue to support our industry. socialist/communist who hates God and country, a • Progress on the Loggers Relief bill, Safe Routes Act, and Youth in pedophile who wants to kill babies. Both sides de- Logging gained support in Congress. monize the other, unfairly and inaccurately, instead of respecting the fact that reasonable people—well • Setliff Law provided pro bono its excellent legal training by Zoom informed people of good character and intelligence, and a great safety seminar (along with many other fine contributors) for patriotic people—can disagree about politics. our membership. Many business owners and their managers attended. That’s what I wish; not that we’d all see things the We recommend this training for every company. same way but that we’d respect each other, and • Vance Wright passed the gavel to Frank Myers. Frank will now lead respect each other’s right to see things differently. the organization in 2021 serving as President. Chad Shelton will We’re all on the same side here, ultimate- continue to serve as Vice-President of VLA. ly: the side of America. We just sometimes disa- • Three members received recognition for their excellent business gree on what’s best for it or how best to get there. management and service to the industry. Buck Morris received his Is the result of this election really what’s best for recognition earning the President’s Award. Binky and Guke Tapscott us? Only time will tell, but come what may, we are were recognized by FRA as the 2020 National Loggers. all in this together and we will, as a nation, survive and thrive. VLA is lining up its work plan in 2021 with a few solid commitments. While not known whether any of these events will come true, we will remain So that’s what message I want to get flexible and ready to adjust and seize the opportunities available to us. across. If your fellow Americans picked a President We plan to be visible at two upcoming logging expos in 2021. VLA will have who wasn’t your preference, it’s going to be ok. booths at the Richmond Logging Expo and the Mid-Atlantic Logging Expo They’re still your friends and neighbors, still your in North Carolina. Dates are set for both and can be found in our events brothers and sisters. We’re still America, we’re still calendar. great, and there will always be another election. And who knows? If the courts don’t rule in his VLA annual conference will take place at Hotel Roanoke Conference Center favor this time, maybe President Trump can run on August 5-8, 2021. We will plan an awesome top-notch agenda for the again in 2024. entire family. All we need is you!
VLA News 9 VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY Communication, Planning and Cooperation Build Strong Bridges By Michelle Stoll, Director of Public Information, Virginia Department of Forestry
Remember those old cartoons with the coyote and the sheep dog ging contractors cover the cost of implementing Best Man- clocking in to work, the coyote set on eating the sheep and the agement Practices (BMPs) on stream crossing sites across sheepdog determined to stop the coyote? These two were always the state. The program covers 50 percent of the cost of BMP at odds and that was just the nature of their jobs. Well, some installation up to $2,500, or $5,000 if the project includes people may assume the same is true for Virginia Department of the purchase of a portable bridge. Kevin submitted the cost Forestry (VDOF) water quality personnel and loggers, but they share paperwork at the same time to secure funding to help would be wrong! “We’re really on the same side and when we Donnie with this project. work together and keep each other informed, everyone wins,” explains VDOF Water Quality Specialist Kevin Dawson. Donnie knew he needed a bridge that would adequately sup- port his tracked sawhead, and he contacted Binky Tapscott Kevin, forestry consultant Todd Goode and logging company of Forest Pro, Inc. to perform the construction. They settled owner Donnie Reaves have been working together on a job that on a 35-foot steel bridge with extra I-beams under the outer proves partnership and communication are more than just words. panels for added strength. The plan also called for logs As a result of pre-planning, intentional and open communication, under the ends of each bridge to make the crossing level and and a sound relationship built on mutual interests, one harvest in the transition from bridge-one to bridge-two "seamless". Lynchburg City has proven to be stress-free and a success for all involved. “I was very impressed with Donnie’s ability to listen and suggest alternative ways to stabilize the crossing during Todd and Donnie contacted Kevin in June of this year about a use,” recalls Kevin. “Donnie used the existing brush on both potentially complicated timber harvest in Lynchburg. The site sides of the crossing to create a corduroy pad that would crossed a stream and was in a particularly visible location. The keep the equipment from rutting the approaches and prevent location had all the elements of a difficult job fraught with water any potential erosion or sedimentation. He also suggested quality problems and public scrutiny. Donnie and Todd recognized using two main bladed trails, which was an idea that I had this and reached out to Kevin to request a pre-harvest plan and not previously considered, but after listening to his reason- assistance with installing a temporary bridge. ing I thought it was worth a respectable try.”
“Donnie and Todd foresaw the potential issues and reached out for help from VDOF,” said Kevin. “This kind of communication and trust goes a long way to make a positive harvest that everyone walks away happy with.”
The site posed two significant challenges: the need to cross Dreaming Creek as well as a city sewer line running adjacent to the creek. Kevin wrote the pre-harvest plan on June 18, 2020 and submitted it to Todd, Donnie, and Lynchburg City. The plan in- volved a double bridge crossing at Dreaming Creek, one set of bridges to traverse the sewer line and the second set to cross the stream. Lynchburg City was more than willing to mark the sewer line.
Donnie was able to take advantage of VDOF’s Log- ger BMP Cost Share Program that takes advantage of funding provided by the Commonwealth’s Water Quality Improvement Fund. This program helps log-
VLA News 10 The job began in August of 2020 and as of Thanksgiving this year was approximately 75 percent complete. The Lynchburg area has received separate rain events of four inches, four inches, five inches, and 10+ inches “We Done Did Doesses This Together” during this harvest and the bridges as well as the approaches have held up By Donnie Reaves better than ever expected. Donnie used a combination of temporary diver- sions and brush matting to prevent soil compaction, soil rutting, erosion, This was a wonderful project created by some and sedimentation. Kevin explained that each week he has responded to great people coming together. It was the WE fac- many phone calls questioning the project and has conducted weekly inspec- tor that made it happen and not just one person. tions of the property because he knows that there are many eyes that view Kevin Dawson of the Virginia Department of this harvest daily. He has yet to find any erosion or sediment entering the Forestry got it all started off on the right foot by stream channel. Once the project is completed the bridge will be removed helping me understand our options. Me done did and VDOF will close out paperwork for the Logger BMP cost-share project dosses went and found me a goodess water qual- and process the payment. ity man.
"I've seen pictures of the bridge with a bulldozer setting on it after heavy When it came to crossing this creek, I counted rains, the creek swollen, an incredible amount of fast-moving water, all heavily on Uncle Binky Tapscott to build one that while the stream banks look undisturbed by the logging,” said Virginia would allow my heavy equipment to cross and Loggers Association Executive Director Ron Jenkins. “This project was keep the water clean. Both men were so impor- truly a successful collaboration of the owner, Virginia Department of For- tant to helping me. Also, I am thankful to Rob estry and its great people, and bridge-builder Binky Tapscott." Farrell for making the funding available to build the bridge. I sure hope Mr. Farrell didn't have to Donnie’s willingness to listen and take the time to install the necessary give up a paycheck! control measures during the harvest made this endeavor successful. In ad- dition to Donnie’s efforts to enlist VDOF’s expertise and involvement prior Finally, I give the Lord above all the credit for to beginning the harvest, the City of Lynchburg has also been an important helping to move everyone in the right direction stakeholder. “They have been great to work with, and I keep them informed for a successful outcome. Amen! on a regular basis with any developments I observe while conducting my harvest inspections,” said Kevin.
This job is a perfect example of what happens when the communication between parties is open and honest. All parties have been willing to listen to one another, and that makes things simple when it comes to complicated harvests. “I think the entire process has proven that when pre-harvest plan- ning is involved along with patience and determination that complicated projects are not as complicated as they may seem,” Kevin concluded.
Secretary of Agriculture & Forestry Bettina Ring and Forester Kevin Dawson review logging site
VLA News 11 VA Tech Forest Operations Research Update
One of the more interesting parts of working at VA Tech is that I get to be involved in a number of dif- ferent research projects. Even though COVID-19 restrictions have changed many things, we still have NEWS AND several active Forest Operations research projects. I often get asked about the projects we are involved UPDATES FROM in, so I thought I would update you on some of the ones that are relevant to your work. VIRGINIA TECH FOREST I currently have a graduate student working on one part of a larger project where we are trying to OPERATIONS quantify the benefits of BMPs for reducing sedimentation on logging jobs in the Southeast. One of the EXTENSION primary goals of forest harvesting BMPs is preventing sediment from entering streams. We know that BMPs work to reduce erosion and erosion is relatively easy to estimate on harvesting sites. However, Scott Barrett, PhD, very few studies have actually quantified how much of that erosion actually makes its way to the Extension Specialist, stream where it results in sedimentation. There are two phases to this project, one that estimates ero- Forest Operations sion and the general site characteristics on 111 harvest sites in 11 southeastern states. The other part of Coordinator for the VA the project uses silt fences installed along the edge of streams on harvesting sites in Virginia and North SHARP Logger Program Carolina to actually trap sediment right before it reaches the stream. This will allow us to develop VA Tech Department of a sediment delivery ratio to quantify how much of the erosion that occurs on a harvest site actually Forest Resources & makes it to the stream. This study will help us to better quantify the benefits from BMPs that loggers Environmental Conservation are working hard to implement on their harvest sites.
Another project that we are working on relates to logging machine value retention as well as logger’s decisions related to buying new versus used equipment. This project is led by Chad Bolding who has a graduate student currently working on analyzing data on used equipment values. Part of the project involves collecting prices and other information for logging equipment on used equipment sites. The student collected data from across the country for over 900 pieces of used equipment. The objective of the study is to evaluate the decline in equipment value over time and evaluate the factors related to that decrease in value. In addition to the machine values collected from used equipment sites this project will also involve getting additional input from equipment dealers related to other factors that impact used equipment value. This project also plans to get input from loggers related to their decisions on whether to buy used versus new equipment. If you are interested in helping out with this part of the study, we plan to have a brief survey for loggers where you could provide input on your ideas related to equipment purchasing decisions. We plan for that to be available as an online survey in early 2021 and will distribute the link to the survey once it is ready.
And of course, another project that was completed last year was the third comprehensive survey of SHARP Loggers. I had planned on presenting those results at the VLA annual meeting this year, but COVID-19 had other plans for 2020. I still plan to share the results of that comprehensive logger sur- vey in more detail at the VLA Meeting in August 2021 as well as some updates from the other projects I mentioned. I always try to be optimistic, even when 2020 makes it hard to be an optimist! But I am optimistic that by August we’ll have the worst of this COVID-19 situation behind us and we’ll be meet- ing in person and talking face to face about how glad we are that those times are behind us! I hope to see you face to face to face in 2021.
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our nation has recovered.
and hopefully our society will remember our important connection to this natural resource long after
healthy to protect others. Our forests and those who work in the woods are also doing their jobs,
We are all in this together. We all have a role to play, even if that is simply staying home and staying
• Fuel for energy production and heating
• Lumber and plywood for emergency structures and shelters
• Wood pallets to move food, medical supplies and other critical goods
• Latex gloves and other protective products
• Cellulose-based pill fillers
• Cleaning products
• Disinfecting wipes
• Tissue papers
• Filters
• Masks
These essentials include, but are not limited to:
responders and the rest of us have the essentials we need to weather this crisis.
manufacture and transport wood-based products are helping ensure our medical professionals, first-
an essential critical infrastructure workforce as the nation responds to COVID-19. Those who harvest,
there are good reasons why the U.S. Department of Homeland Security identified the forest sector as
Foresters and loggers practiced social distancing long before the pandemic response required it. But
who provide them.
items, the epidemic should give us an appreciation for the basic resources we depend on- and those
Judging by shortages of medical supplies and many household
care to those in need.
lines of this epidemic and making personal sacrifices to provide
appreciate the men and women who are serving on the front
COVID-19 is challenging our society in many ways. Today we
By: Nick Smith – Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities
Global Pandemic
Forestry: Meeting Essential Needs During a
NEWSLETTER
APRIL 2020
GOOD RIDDANCE 2020!
Danny Dructor – Executive Vice President
As we look back on the year 2020, the majority of us can probably say it can’t happen fast enough! With the COVID-19 pandemic, catastrophic wildfires, hurricanes, mill explosions, the downturn in hardwood markets resulting from tariffs, extremely wet operating conditions and shuttered paper and sawmills in many parts of the country, 2020 has been without a doubt, one of the roughest and toughest years for professional loggers and log truckers to keep their businesses afloat, no pun intended.
It started with the tariffs and ended with the extended wildfire and hurricane season, and somewhere in be- tween the issues that surrounded the COVID-19 pandemic. While loggers remained an essential service provider, many of the mills that we produced to could not maintain enough personnel to run their facilities due to the illness.
At a time when paper products in the US such as toilet paper were flying off of store shelves, loggers supplying the raw fiber need to produce those products were seeing their delivered prices drop. As do it yourself projects picked up because of the stay at home mandates, lumber prices soared due to the shortage of lumber caused, in part, by lack of mill capacity due to employee shortages.
We asked both Congress and the Administration for some type of relief package to help those businesses that are struggling stay afloat long enough to reorganize their business plans in order to do just that, stay in business. While we had some help from both sides of the aisle in both the House and the Senate, the ability of Congress to pass legislation of any form was curtailed by the partisan politics that seem to be the new norm in Washington, DC.
Meanwhile, we found that the United States Department of Agriculture failed to see the similarities between agricultural producers and loggers and our attempts at getting assistance by way of the CFAP program were rejected, perhaps because the advisors to the Secretary do not understand our industry or perhaps the Secretary himself was not interested enough in the issue. We provided them with the data generated by Forest2Market showing the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic on the logging and log trucking industry, but to no avail. Meanwhile, commercial Christmas Tree growers are eligible for the program even as they are set to have a banner year as social distancing and stay at home policies are still in effect in many states across the US. Go figure?
Loggers are survivors as well as adaptors. Once again the majority of you have risen to the occasion and figured out a way to make a go of it, but there have been casualties, many that could have been avoided with an assistance program from the federal government.
Besides legislation that we have worked on for many years such as the Safe Routes Act and the Future Logging Careers Act, it has be- come evident that one important recognition needs to be made and that is to create parity between logging and the rest of the agricultural commodity producers. We aren’t going to cry for assistance every time the ground gets too wet to work or another mill goes down due to market fluctuations, but logging and log trucking businesses should have the opportunity, the same as the other agricultural producers, to at least qualify for low interest loans or even small forgivable loans when pandemics that are totally out of our control shut down the busi- nesses and markets that we rely on to deliver our product to.
2020 can’t get out of here fast enough, but we will have our work cut out for us in 2021.
Wishing each and every one of you a safe, happy and blessed Christmas season and a prosperous 2021!
The American Loggers Council is an 501(c)(6) not for profit trade association representing professional timber harvesters throughout the United States. For more information please contact the American Loggers Council at 409-625-0206, or [email protected], or visit our website at www.amloggers.com
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VLA News 16 2021 will be an important year. You will have the opportunity to vote for your representa- tive in the Virginia House of Delegates and Governor. Your personal life and your business can be impacted by those we elect to represent us. Virginia Loggers Association uses the VLA Political Action Committee to find candidates who support businesses and our indus-
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VLA News 17 Virginia Department of Labor and Industry – Logging Sector – Education vs Training
Virginia Are we providing the proper training and education to our employees? Many employers provide Department educational information to employees without providing the employees training. This happens due to of Labor and misunderstanding the difference between education and training. Industry As we work together to reduce injuries and deaths, we need to look at training provided to each em- ployee and the task or equipment they operate. Reevaluating each employee is essential either yearly or William Groce CHST after a close call, near miss, accident, or any unsafe operation that is observed. Lead Safety and Health Consultant What is Training: By definition, training is the action of teaching persons a particular skill or type of behavior. VOSH – OSHA State Plan 1570 E Parham Road Three types of training in the work place consist of Induction, on-the job and off the job. Richmond, VA 23228 Phone: (540) 248-9280 What is Education: By definition, the process of receiving systematic instruction.
William.groce@ Each part of Training for employees should consist of an Educational part (instruction) and a Training doli.virginia.gov part (hands on). www.doli.virginia.gov Simple example of education and training- No one would ever let someone drive without providing them classroom instruction, the education part, and then have that person drive on streets and high- https://www.doli.virginia.gov/ ways, the training part. (Even if you did this as a child on the farm or backcountry roads) vosh-programs/consultation/ The most likely cause of employee performance problems and accidents can be pointed to the deficien- cy of skills and knowledge. The corrective action is education and training.
29 CFR 1910.266 (i) Training
1. The employer shall provide training for each employee, including supervisors, at no cost to the employee.
2. Frequency. Training shall be provided as follows:
i. As soon as possible, but no later than the effective date of the section for initial training for each current and new employees; (effective date for training was September 8, 1995) Everyone now gets training upon hire.
ii. Prior to initial assignment for each new employee; (This includes employees with stated knowledge, or past experience)
VLA News 18 iii. Whenever the employee is assigned new work tasks, tools, equipment, machines or vehicles and,
iv. Whenever the employee demonstrates unsafe job performance.
3. Content. At minimum, training shall consist of the following:
i) Safe performance of assigned work task
ii) Safe use, operation and maintenance of tools, machines and vehicles the employee uses or operates, including emphasis on understanding and follow the manufactures operating and maintenance instructions, warnings and precautions
iii) Recognition of safety and health hazards, associated with the employee’s specific work task, including the use of measures and work practices to prevent or control those hazards.
iv) Recognition, prevention and control of other safety and health hazards in the logging industry.
v) Procedures, practices and requirements of the employer’s work site and,
vi) The requirements of this standard.
Portability of Training - Each current employee who has received training in the particular elements (task or equipment) does not have to be retrained in those elements. 1910.266(i)(5)(i)
The employer shall train, each current and new employee in those elements for which the employee has not received training. 1910.266(i)(5)(iii)
The employer is responsible for ensuring that each employee who is required to be trained as specified in paragraph (i)(2) of 1910.266 shall work under the close supervision of a designated person until the employee demonstrates to the employer the abil- ity to safely perform their duties independently.
One of the challenging tasks for the employer now is, providing training in a manner that the employees understand. The em- ployer shall assure that all training material used is appropriate in content and vocabulary to the educational level, literacy and language skills for the employees being trained. The challenge for many is the language as more none English speaking workers entering the logging industry.
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o Other additional training that may be required that is not part of the 1910.266 standard, include Emergency Action Plan 1910.38
o Occupational noise exposure 1910.95
o Portable fire extinguisher training and education 1910.157
o Welding and cutting – fire prevention 1910.252
o Hazard Communication 1910.1200
o Infectious Disease Prevention COVID-19, State standard 16VAC25-220
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Additional assistance please contact William Groce at [email protected]
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VLA News 19 SETLIFF'S LAW
Up a Highway Without a Pedal drivers should take care to contact their towing company and/ or attorney immediately so that they can get ahead of the situa- Under the Virginia Bureau of Insurance’s latest guidance, can tion. Second, many (if not most) police officers will permit the insurers (or their insured) challenge the reasonableness of police- vehicle’s owner to select a nearby towing company – and drivers initiated towing bills? or company representatives should be ready and prepared with a The Virginia State Corporation Commission recently passed list of reputable companies. This can allow negotiation of rates Administrative Letter 2020-06 (https://www.scc.virginia.gov/ up front. Third, if a police- recommended towing company is to getattachment/35193336-78b1-4012-88c2- b34a0eba81e1/2020-06. be used, the driver or company representative should take care to pdf) which notes that, once insurers have made a liability deter- get an estimate in writing prior to work being performed. Fourth, mination that the insured is at fault for an accident, insurers are recipients of towing bills called in by emergency services should responsible to reimburse towing companies for “clean up and take care to review those bills to ensure that they represent a recovery costs,” which include “certain towing expenses.” reasonable rate for work actually performed. Moreover, different localities may have procedures in place for how these bills are to In many cases, this is a relatively insignificant point. After all, be handled. If you receive an excessive towing bill as a driver, when compared to the property damage and medical bills that can transportation company, or insurance company, it may be prudent result from an accident, a small tow charge is a relatively minor to contact an attorney before payment is made to weigh potential addition. However, in circumstances where an accident leaves options – it’s typically much more difficult to undo a wrongful a vehicle disabled on the side of the road, Virginia police are payment then it is to address the situation up front. permitted by Virginia law (Virginia Code § 46.2-1209) to call a towing company to recover the vehicle and, depending on the city or county’s local code, these fees may be automatically charged to the owner of the disabled vehicle.
In some cases, neither the insured nor the insurer has an oppor- tunity to meaningfully negotiate the tow rates charged. Although some localities have set rates that the company may charge, in many localities within Virginia, there are no set tow rates (or caps), which can result in bills for tens of thousands of dollars being forwarded to trucking companies and insurance companies that were never negotiated and are incredibly excessive compared to the time and cost expended by the towing company. Mr. Kaseorg Mr. Setliff
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Drivers, transportation companies, and insurance companies should all be prepared and ready to handle situations when a ve- hicle they are responsible for becomes disabled. First, as always,
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He was a veteran of WW II and a lifetime member of VFW Post in King William County. Richard was a founding member of the Frog Level Volunteer Fire Department and he bought their first fire engine. He was a great supporter of the churches in his community as well as anyone else in need. He was described as strong, honest and hardworking. His word was his bond and he loved to tell jokes and stories. He broke barri- ers in his industry and began his own business. And, he and Mildred spent 71 loving years together, raised a well-educated and thoughtful family. In his 99 years he truly left his mark on our state and country.
Richard was not a member of VLA. However, he belonged to a fraternity that I have come to know – God, family and com- munity comes first.
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VLA News 27 Quality Pine Plantation Thinning & Whole Tree Chipping Buyer of Land & Timber Forestry MutualC.K. Greene 2015 Logger Owner of the Year
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