January 11, 2010

Why Gustafson Logging Matters

If you care about forest health and salmon spawning, give Gustafson Logging a lot of credit. As Cassandra Profita reported Thursday, the Oregon Board of Forestry has given Gustafson Logging the 2009 Operator of the Year award. Gustafson is attentive and precise in its stream restoration work.

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January 8, 2010

A Cut Above the Rest

In Rock Creek, a tributary of the Nehalem River in Clatsop County, water is meandering around 40-foot logs under wispy white alder branches. There’s no sign that Mark Gustafson and his logging crew were ever there, pulling logs down from the slope above and placing them precisely into the stream so they would enrich the riparian habitat without washing away.

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January 7, 2010

Ax Men Loggers honored by Oregon

Mark Gustafson, whose Astoria-based logging company was the subject of the History Channel reality series “Ax Men”, was among those honored by the state as 2009’s top loggers.

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January 7, 2010

Forest Operator of the Year

A former “Ax Men” logger, Mark Gustafson—whose company was on the first two series of the acclaimed series—received a statewide honor as Forest Operator of the Year, disproving naysayers who think the crews on the show are somehow separate from the state’s timber industry.

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