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COUNCIL ON FOREST ENGINEERING |
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OPERATOR (INDUSTRY) AWARDS |
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2005 HONOREE Pete Bailey is the owner/operator of Skyline Thinning Company, Springfield, Oregon. He has over 35 years of logging experience. His early years of logging began in the Reedsport, Oregon area, then 8 years in Alaska logging camps, and returning to Oregon for logging supervision for several contractors. His area of expertise focuses on skyline logging operations on steep terrain in the Pacific Northwest region. In 1993, he started his own company. Pete is a Professional Certified Logger and has been a member of the Associated Oregon Logging Contractors for the last 14 years. He has been an active participant on safety committees with the revisions to the Forest Activities Code. His logging contracts involve working with a wide range of public/private landowners and different mills throughout Oregon.
2006 HONOREE Roy Lawson is a logging contractor based in northern Idaho, running his logging contracting business the last 33 years. His business started with a used crawler in 1972. Today it employs 45 people that are equipped with highly mechanized ground-based and skyline systems. He has been actively providing the service of timber harvesting and road construction to major forest companies, government agencies and private landowners in the interior Northwest. |