|
|
| |
VFA News
|
|
Back
1
2
3
4
5
6 7
Next |
|
VIRGINIA
FORESTRY ASSOCIATION
0
2008 ANNUAL CONVENTION |
Two Logger
Merit Award Winners Announced for 2008
|
Logger Merit Award
recipients represent the “best of the best” of Virginia’s
loggers. The award not only recognizes high performance
standards, but also the degree of respect each of these
loggers has earned within the logging community.
To be considered for the award, loggers must be
nominated by two individuals and meet several requirements
including completion of the Virginia’s SHARP Logger Program,
use of Best Management Practices, commitment to safety, and
customer and landowner satisfaction. Their operations are
efficient and productive with negative environmental impacts
to the forest site and/or residual timber stand. Logger
Merit winners portray a positive image for the logging
industry throughout the community.
Nominations are reviewed and approved by a select
committee of VFA members including former Merit Award
recipients. Loggers receiving the award maintain Merit
Logger status for five years, after which they are eligible
for re-nomination. |
Lee
Brown, Jr., High Country Logging, Hot Springs, Va. |
Lee
Brown Jr. and Keith Simmons |
Lee Brown, Jr. started High Country Logging in 1999 and has
steadily grown his business. Today, High Country Logging has
four full-time employees, including Lee.
Brown typically works in Highland and Bath counties,
and operates a safe and efficient conventional mountain
logging operation that specializes in selectively harvesting
high quality Appalachian Sawtimber.
Well aware of the dangers of the logging industry, Brown is
proud of the fact that he has not had an employee injured
during the eight years that he has operated High Country
Logging.
High Country Logging was nominated by Keith Simmons with
MeadWestvaco Corp. and Alan Craft with the Virginia
Department of Forestry.
|
Jack and Jimmy Campbell, J2 Enterprises, Inc., Moneta, Va. |
Jimmy Campbell, Jack Campbell and Jeffery Watts |
Jimmy Campbell represents the company’s fourth generation in
logging. His father Jack went into the logging business
after graduating from high school in 1961. Jimmy has been
involved since he graduated eight years ago.
Originally a mountain hardwood logging crew, Jack had
extensive experience with high lead cable yarding and has
supported several helicopter logging sales during his
career. Their crew mechanized in the mid-1990s and now works
throughout Virginia’s Piedmont region.
J2 Enterprises, Inc., was nominated by Jeffrey Watts
with Hancock Forest Management and Dennis Austin with
Georgia-Pacific Corp.
|
|
|
|
Back
1
2
3
4
5
6 7
Next |
|
|
|
