Help the Virginia Loggers Association raise funds to help children with serious medical conditions. Help the six loggers (the Magnificent Six) who are creating this wonderful event and helping kids have a better life! Location: Arrow Head Gun Club, Victoria,…
This webinar was brought to you by a coalition of organizations: the American Loggers Council, American Wood Council, National Alliance of Forest Owners, and FRA. We are united in addressing the challenges facing loggers and haulers, including workflow instability, rising…
This podcast link will be worth every minute of your time. Virginia attorney and VLA General Counsel and Peter Wood define how to avoid major legal issues and expensive suits before the accident. Develop a good plan with your attorney…
Plan to join us for another grand VLA annual meeting (our family reunion) at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center in Blacksburg, VA August 8 – 10, 2025. All members of the family are welcome to attend.…
REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY NOVEMBER 1! The incredible logger training opportunity is available November 8 to earn your Update class credits, plus legal, VDOT, VSP, & VDOF updates totaling 5 CEs. Register by November 1 and we will set a plate…
It seems like every time a forest product mill or plant shuts down (monthly if not weekly) it’s viewed as a singular isolated incident. But viewed collectively, the cumulative impacts and magnitude become more focused and apparent. The individual incidents…
Why do we still debate whether logging is a natural component for healthy forests?Forests produce lots of solid wood and fiber products all of us use in our homes and businesses. Our healthy forests produce all of these products, enhance…
VLA celebrated Forest Products Week yesterday with Governor Youngkin who joined the Virginia Department of Forestry, Franklin Lumber Company, and Virginia’s top forestry & logging trade associations to see some important operational phases of Virginia’s third largest industry. The Virginia…
Virginia Loggers Association is grateful to every sponsor to our 2022 annual gathering at the Williamsburg Lodge. The generosity of our sponsors was overwhelming and helped make this annual meeting the highest attended gathering of VLA members, associates & friends…
The economy is mercilessly hurting loggers and truckers. Fuel price increases are a chief concern. Dr. Joseph Conrad, Assistant Professor of Forest Operations at Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia helps us to take the complex…