Oregon’s last horse logger and a family of foresters look to the future by carrying on a legacy of the past. Jamming a metal skidding tong into a log, Roger Daugherty draws the slack from his driving ...

Babe is a muscular white draft horse weighing in at 1,700 pounds, and he’s a very good boy. He waits, untethered, while his owner, Scott Stevens, disappears around a brushy curve in a skid road, ...

When Brad Johnson and Derek O’Toole talk about horsepower, they’re talking about actual horse power. The two men are co-owners of Third Branch Horse Logging, of Braintree, which uses draft horses for ...

There are no growling engines or belching exhaust from giant skidders on the Scragwood property here. Instead, there's the jangle of chains as literal horse power goes to work removing timber from the ...

Logging is some of the oldest work around Northern New York. Many communities around the North Country were established around logging camps in... Mar 20, 2018 — Logging is some of the oldest work ...

One of the nation’s largest urban forests, where the national champion longleaf pine stands and endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers thrive, is the setting for the Aiken Horse Show. The local sporting ...

Heavy horses are being used to extract timber in electricity network projects in what is said to be the first time since the network was modernised. Three horses are now based in Aberdeenshire to help ...

Horses like Real Bullets, who came to the Standardbred Retirement Foundation two years ago with an eye injury, are starting to be adopted to help the animal sanctuary as it struggles during the ...

Third Branch Horse Logging was started October 2018. Both Johnson and O’Toole had been working with draft horses for farming. When they formed their company they shifted their focus to using horses in ...