Helicopter logging is light on the land, but it's expensive. Just a few draws over, where the hillsides aren't so steep, the cheaper traditional mechanized logging is taking place.

State officials have given their OK to modify a northern Idaho timber-sale contract to include helicopter logging that will cost the state up to $1.5 million in lost revenue.

Helicopters could be used on another 300 acres, she said. Helicopter loggers, many based in Oregon, have retooled their craft to carry bigger loads, making helicopter logging more feasible.

Preparation work has started for helicopter logging in the Mount Elden and Dry Lake Hills areas of the Flagstaff Watershed Protection Project, which will be heard and seen to the ...

ENNIS — Helicopter logging is being considered on the Cliff Lake Bench in the south Madison Valley to remove dead and dying trees killed by beetles before they rot.

elkins, w.va.– Helicopter logging operations are scheduled to begin on or around March 28 in the West Fork Timber Sale north of Bartow in Pocahontas County on Monongahela National Forest.

High-cost steep-slope helicopter logging is working in Williams; Flagstaff will be next SEAN GOLIGHTLY Sun Staff Reporter Oct 7, 2022 ...

[image-1]Hundreds of dirt logging roads zigzag through Idaho's backcountry, and one particular road was brought into question earlier this summer, when the U.S. Forest Service granted permission ...

Columbia Helicopters of Portland, Ore., is managing the aerial logging show for Chinook Resources. The Forks company purchased the two blocks of state trust timber for slightly more than $1 million in ...

HELENA, Mont. - A federal judge has halted a small portion of a northwestern Montana logging project, saying its effect on grizzly bears hasn't been adequately addressed.