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From: "Doug Duncan - NC Association of Professional Loggers"
Subject: FW: Just hit the streets- Southern Loggin' Times Highlights
the NCAPL
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010

NC Loggers Come Together
By DK Knight
Southern Stumpin’

EDITOR’S NOTE: Southern Stumpin’ happily invited the North
Carolina Association of Professional Loggers, Inc. to submit the
following article that depicts the group’s tremendous growth
since its inception, and how it intends to carry this momentum
into the future. Visit http://www.ncloggers.com; e-mail
contact@ncloggers.com or call 919-271-9050.

It’s been a fast ride for one of the nation’s youngest logging
associations. The North Carolina Professional Loggers
Association, Inc. (NCAPL) pulled out of the station just over two
years ago and has already made an impact on behalf of its
members and those on the national scene.

A charter group of 12 logging businesses started meeting in the
summer of 2007 at local restaurants to discuss logger training,
trucking and tax regulations, a need to reduce spending on fuel
and operating supplies, and focusing on state and federal
politics where you take the initative instead of dodging bullets
and avoiding ricochets. Keith Biggs and Jimmie Locklear of
Forestry Mutual Insurance had just returned from their first
American Loggers Council national meeting and were impressed
with a 100% dedicated logging association working at the
national and state levels. “It was loggers dealing with logging
issues at their table,” Biggs recalls.

Download Full Article (PDF)
http://www.americanloggers.org/102101_n ... ighted.pdf