Ozark Regional Award Goes to Winona Logger

Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) Resource Forester, Steve Paes, congratulates the MDC’s Logger of the Year for the Ozark Region, Woody Haynes, of Winona. Also pictured are family members A.J. Haynes, Brady Haynes, Cody Haynes and Mark Haynes.

WEST PLAINS -- The Missouri Department of Conservation recently named Woody Haynes as the Ozark Regional Logger of the Year for 2010. Haynes said he began “bucking” logs at age 12 for his father’s logging business and has been a professional logger since graduating from high school over 22 years ago. According to MDC Resource Forester, Steve Paes, Haynes was nominated for the award because of the excellent work he has done in timber sales for both private landowners and the Missouri Department of Conservation.

According to Paes, the yearly Ozark Regional Logger Award is given to the logger that has demonstrated the ability to carry out a timber harvest in a manner that causes the least amount of damage to the remaining resources on site. The purpose behind this award is to recognize the abilities of loggers who are practicing low impact logging.
“These loggers take extra time to demonstrate how forest harvests should be carried out,” Paes said. The Missouri Department of Conservation recognizes that there are many loggers scattered throughout the state that are doing an outstanding job in their timber harvesting operations and they deserve recognition, he said.

Criteria for choosing a logger for the award includes good working relationships with landowners and foresters, minimal damage to remaining trees and resources, preventions of soil erosion, aesthetics of the site after harvesting was completed, safe work performance and use of equipment, utilization of harvested trees, the desire to address wildlife management concerns, and use of proper forest management techniques. The logger also must have completed the Professional Timber Harvester’s Training Program sponsored by the Missouri Forest Products Association and the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Crader Distributing Company, headquartered in Marble Hill, Mo., is the exclusive distributor of STIHL Outdoor Power Equipment in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Southern Illinois, and ponsors the logger award program. STIHL has donated a Protective Kit valued at $479 to each regional logger award recipient.

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Ozark Regional Award Goes to Winona Logger

Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) Resource Forester, Steve Paes, congratulates the MDC’s Logger of the Year for the Ozark Region, Woody Haynes, of Winona. Also pictured are family members A.J. Haynes, Brady Haynes, Cody Haynes and Mark Haynes.

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no programs associated.