20 Mar 2022
Award-winning tree farmers to share their journey managing the Woods Without Gile
Ann and Marc Davis with Zippy at Woods Without Gile. The Wilmot Public Library and the Wilmot Community Association (WCA) will cosponsor an in-person talk and slide show by Ann and Marc Davis at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 27 at the WCA’s Red Barn, 64 Village Road, Wilmot. The Davises, who have recognized as […]
2019 Kendall Norcott Award: Michael O’Leary
Michael O’Leary’s place of employment doesn’t, at first, look like part of the forest-products industry. The facility is dominated by a huge, Titanic-size smokestack, and seriously thick electrical wires and cables line their way into the property like cabling for a monster stage set. There’s nary a log to be seen — but there is […]
2019 President’s Award: Sen. Jeb Bradley
Jeb Bradley, Republican state senator for District 3, has been in politics long enough to know that campaigning, whether for an office or an issue, always involves a bit of show business. Standing in the bright sun in front of the State House in early September last year, Bradley looked out at the assembled crowd […]
2019 Outstanding Forest Industry: Pine Tree Lumber, Steve and Renee Patten
Success rarely seems swift to those who toil and struggle to follow through on a vision and a dream to make it a reality. For Steve and Renee Patten, owning and operating Pine Tree Lumber in Lempster, N.H., has been a labor of love. The first sawmill was installed on the property by owner Ernie […]
2019 Outstanding Logger: Heath Bunnell, HB Logging
Northern New Hampshire and Vermont are speckled with the name Bunnell: Bunnell Brook, Bunnell Notch, Bunnell Mountain — and Bunnell logging. The Bunnell name has been associated with working in the woods for at least four generations. Heath Bunnell, proprietor of HB Logging and son of well-known Monroe, N.H., logger Rocky Bunnell, is the fourth […]
Energy Attorney Robert Olson Honored with NHTOA President’s Award
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. — An invaluable partner of the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association (NHTOA) who has helped lead the NHTOA to success with several significant legislative accomplishments, Robert Olson Esq. is this year’s NHTOA) President’s Award honoree. Mr. Olson’s advocacy on behalf of the state’s six independent biomass energy plants was especially important during last […]
Rick Grover, Scott Piper Given 2018 Outstanding Forest Industry Awards by the NHTOA
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. — Scott Piper, president of Northeast Mill Services Inc., and Rick Grover, with a long career as an expert mechanic for sawmills throughout New England and Europe, were both honored by the New Hampshire Timberland Industry Association (NHTOA) with this year’s Outstanding Forest Industry award. The awards were presented at the NHTOA’s 107th […]
David Rondeau Named New Hampshire’s Outstanding Logger for 2018
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. — David Rondeau, based in Orford, N.H., is the 2018 Outstanding Logger, as awarded by the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association (NHTOA). The award was presented to Mr. Rondeau at the NHTOA’s 107th Annual Meeting at the Chesterfield Central School in Chesterfield. Modest to a fault, David says, “I just try to do […]