On a hot day this spring, Topher White hiked into the Rio Canandé Reserve in Ecuador, used a slingshot-like device to fling a rope high up into a tree, and started climbing more than 100 feet up into ...

May 30—With work taking just over a week, wood carving and chainsaw artist Jacob Lucas of Bonney Lake completed carving a new "Big Ole" lumberjack statue at the Morton Loggers' Jubilee Arena on ...

Like most loggers, Rick Alger of Milan says all he needs to fell a tree is a chainsaw. But where most lumberjacks use skidders, cherry pickers and other machines to haul their timber from the woods, ...

THE forest around Manjau in Borneo once reverberated with the scream of chainsaws, as gangs of illegal loggers felled ancient hardwood trees for sale to timber merchants downstream. But many loggers ...

Sawdust will be flying in the town of Frederick as the Chainsaws & Chuckwagons event roars back into town beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Centennial Park, 630 Eighth St. Chainsaw carving combines ...

Lumberjack games have existed as long as there have been lumberjacks. Competitions to test the strength and skill of loggers are now being waged in the form of a professional series called STIHL ...

Cape Coast, Sept. 9, GNA - The Central Region office of the Attorney- General's Department has directed that all cases in connection with the arrest and prosecution of illegal loggers and chain sawn ...

Borneo was once covered in lush, dense rainforests, but they are rapidly disappearing. The Southeast Asian island, roughly three times the size of the UK, has lost half its forest cover since the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The annual chainsaw wood carving competition ...