The Hatton-Brown organization dates back to 1948, when local newspaperman Hartwell Hatton (right) founded Hatton Publications at age 49. His first forest-oriented magazine, Alabama Lumberman, was published from 1949-57. was established in 1953, the same year a new Southern regional logging title, Pulpwood Production, was started. Hatton owned a majority of the small corporation’s stock, with minor
ity interests held by Robert Ryan, an employee, and Brown Printing Co., a local firm which printed the magazine. At 33, Charles Cline joined the company as editor in the summer of 1953 and helped get the first issue into print that August. Eventually, Ryan left the company, selling his stock to the corporation, and Cline bought a minority interest. ceased printing the magazine, the original name remained intact. Pulpwood Production’s title was lengthened to Pulpwood Production & Saw Mill Logging in 1956 and its circulation was extended into the Lake States and New England in 1962. Anticipating the need for an economical logging newspaper in the South, Hatton-Brown launched Loggin’ Times (later titled Southern Loggin’ Times) in 1972. In late 1974, sensing a change in the nature of the traditional pulpwood market, management decided to phase in a new name for Pulpwood Production & Saw Mill Logging. The latter part of the title was dropped and replaced with the words Timber Harvesting. The journal carried a double title until it went national in 1977 and became more fittingly know as Timber Harvesting. Read more: https://www.hattonbrown.net/about/history/
