Old Site News

The Tennessee Log A Load For Kids Committee, under the sponsorship of the Tennessee Forestry Association, hosted its first-ever equipment auction in Kingston, Tennessee on March 1.  Over 300 people attended the auction, and almost 400 items were auctioned off, raising over $64,000.  Tri-State Auction of Kingston, Tennessee managed the auction, including advertising the sale…

One summer, several forest-related enterprises hosted an in-the-woods equipment demonstration in conjunction with a Log A Load For Kids charity harvest.  Lyons Equipment and Pioneer Machinery teamed up with the West Virginia Mountain Loggers Group and several FRA member-company foresters to show off some new machines working on the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border.  This harvesting demo,…

LOG A LOAD FOR KIDS® RAISES OVER $2 MILLION IN 2007 RELEASE: February 15, 2008 CONTACT: Linda Gibson (301/910-5502) lrgibson@forestresources.org Rockville, MD — Loggers from 26 states, working in coalition with forest products businesses and forestry equipment dealers, raised over $2 million for local Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) hospitals during the 2007 Log A Load…

LOG A LOAD FOR KIDS® RAISES NEARLY $2 MILLION IN 2005 RELEASE: February 3, 2006 CONTACT: Linda Gibson 301/838-9385 lrgibson@forestresources.org (Rockville, MD) — Loggers from 26 states, working in coalition with forest products businesses and forestry equipment dealers, raised nearly $2 million for local Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) hospitals during the 2005 Log A Load…