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01/09/2026

A third-generation logging company adapting to steep ground, changing markets, and the realities of modern forestry.

Based in Forks, WA, Dahlgren Logging has adapted over the years to a changing business climate. Chad Dahlgren and his family continue that work today, operating in some of the steepest terrain on the Olympic Peninsula.

The company was started in 1966 by Joel Dahlgren and grew through the 1970s and 1980s as timber became available in steeper country. Today, Dahlgren Logging employs about 40 people, running tower yarding and shovel logging crews and working primarily on state timber sales and private land.

Pictured (left to right): Chad Dahlgren with his sons Luke, Nate, and Jack

🌲 Read more about Dahlgren Logging in the latest issue of TimberWest Magazine: https://forestnet.com/washington-logger-has-adapted/

01/08/2026

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01/06/2026

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12/30/2025

Patrick Broderick is on a mission to help owners of forestland improve the health of their forests and protect them from wildfire.

Broderick, 27, is a consulting forester doing business as Eastside Forestry. He works from an office in his home in Cle Elum in east-central Washington, a little over 80 miles southeast of Seattle. He mainly serves landowners in Kittitas, Chelan, and Yakima counties.

Most of his work falls into two categories: timber sales and developing forest management plans. For a timber sale, he prepares the contract and gets bids for the sale or recommends a particular logging company. The logger contracts directly with the landowner. When he oversees a sale, Broderick does everything from filing permits to cruising the timber, marking the timber to be harvested and the boundaries, and overseeing the harvest to ensure the logger complies with the contract.

Broderick mainly writes forest management plans for private landowners and does a couple timber sales per year. He was recently hired by Rainier Veneer to oversee a 700-acre timber sale they purchased from the U.S. Forest Service on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.

“I specialize in small sales,” said Broderick, “sales that loggers wouldn’t normally do.” He did one timber sale earlier this year that was only 20 acres. “That took 150 hours. It’s a lot of time for these small landowners.”

Broderick works with about four logging contractors, choosing or recommending the company that is a good fit for a particular job: Dutchman Logging, Carey Creek Logging, Hanson Logging, and Cody Pratt Enterprises. They range from small businesses to relatively large contractors that can produce 10-15 loads of wood per day. He has vetted all of them – checked them out with people they’ve previously done work for, mills, landowners, other contractors.

Read more about Patrick's work in the latest issue of TimberWest Magazine: https://forestnet.com/consulting-forester-is-on-a-mission/

12/29/2025

Steep slopes meet their match with the PONSSE Bear. ⛰️🐻

Built for big timber and unforgiving terrain, the Bear delivers the power, stability, and crane control needed to work confidently on steep ground. Its low center of gravity, dual hydraulic pumps, and massive torque give operators the muscle to handle challenging stands while maintaining precision and safety. When the terrain gets steep, the Bear keeps production moving.

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12/22/2025

Chad Dahlgren and his family have adapted over the years to the changing times, changing business climate. Now his company, Dahlgren Logging, is adapting to working on Washington’s rugged terrain with the addition of a Falcon Forestry Equipment winch assist.

The company put the Falcon winch assist into service earlier this year, and Dahlgren already is making plans to add a second one.

Dahlgren Logging is based in Forks, located in the northwest section of the Olympic Peninsula, only about 10 miles from the coast. “A lot of steep ground,” in the region, noted Dahlgren, 51.

The company, a member of the Washington Contract Loggers Association, was started by Dahlgren’s paternal grandfather, Joel, in 1966. The business began to grow when Dahlgren’s father, Pete, and Pete’s brother, John, joined after graduating from high school in the early 1970s.

By the mid-1980s Dahlgren Logging had over 80 employees and operated six or seven cable logging crews and a few shovel logging crews. Timber was becoming available in steeper country, said Dahlgren. “It was an opportunity to build a company, and that’s what they did.”

Following the collapse of the industry after the listing of the spotted owl as a threatened species in 1990 and the resulting logging restrictions on federal lands, the company eventually rebuilt back up to four cable logging crews.

Today Dahlgren Logging employs about 40 people. It runs two or three tower yarding crews and two shovel logging sides. The company is down to two shovel crews and two yarder crews because of market conditions and the difficulty of finding labor, said Dahlgren.

Read more in the latest issue of TimberWest Magazine: https://forestnet.com/washington-logger-has-adapted/

12/17/2025

The November/December 2025 issue of TimberWest Magazine is online now! 🌲

Inside this issue:
• Dahlgren Logging – A Washington contractor adapts operations with a Falcon winch and Tigercat equipment
• Northland Wood Products – An Alaska sawmill and lumber yard still going strong years later
• Eastside Forestry – Serving private landowners across east-central Washington
• Tech Review – A closer look at kiln options for drying lumber

Read the full stories here: https://forestnet.com/timberwest/

12/16/2025

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12/11/2025

📣 NEW Podcast Episode Out Now! Learn how T-MAR Industries Ltd. is rethinking steep-slope yarders to cut fuel use, reduce maintenance risk, and make operations simpler for shrinking operator pools.

Catch the full episode on YouTube or your favourite streaming app, just search Forestnet Media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upzkgHFyI58&t=27s

12/10/2025

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For decades, Forestnet has been at the center of industry news through Logging & Sawmilling Journal and TimberWest Magazine. We have spent years listening to mills, contractors, manufacturers, and suppliers, and we kept hearing the same thing:

“We know marketing matters, but we do not have the time or people to do it right.”

So we built a solution.

Forestnet Media is a full-service marketing division designed for the realities of the forest industry. One integrated team offering strategy, social media managment, videography, design, website development, (and more!). All backed by deep sector knowledge and direct access to our legacy audience.

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Our team acts as your dedicated marketing department, coordinating every detail so you don’t have to. We help companies plan smarter, execute faster, and communicate more clearly.

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12/05/2025

🌲 Scorpion Giant in action with Ken's Kutting! ⬛️🟨 Ken's Kutting from Oakville, WA is tackling some big wood and showing off the precision and performance of this Scorpion Giant! 🪵

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12/03/2025

California’s worst fire season in 2020 left the Bay Area under smoke-filled, orange skies, and it pushed two technologists, Dr. Anukool Lakhina and Dr. Waleed Haddad, to take action. With backgrounds in engineering, physics, and advanced analytics, they founded BurnBot , a company that is transforming how we prevent and mitigate wildfires across the West.

In the photo, an FAE track masticator kicks up dust as it moves through the forest, representing the type of on-the-ground work BurnBot performs every day. The company combines equipment like this with drone ignition systems, data-driven planning tools, and the RX, a patented remote-operated machine that conducts clean and precise controlled burns.

BurnBot now operates in five states with about 80 employees, treating thousands of acres each year while managing one of the largest integrated resource service contracts ever awarded by the U.S. Forest Service. Their goal is to scale up fuel treatments to reduce catastrophic wildfire risk and support healthier, more resilient landscapes.

Read more in TimberWest Magazine🌲 https://forestnet.com/burnbot-goes-high-tech/

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