Breaking Out

An Otago-based logging contractor is using innovative harvesting techniques that offer both efficiency and environmental stewardship in a challenging area that would otherwise have been uneconomic to harvest.Gillion Logging, owned and operated by second-generation bushman, Matt Winmill, has been ...

On a misty morning in June, Flight Logging’s Gordon Flight brought down the last tree in the Central North Island forests managed by NZ Forest Managers (NZFM) that had been damaged in February 2023 by Cyclone Gabrielle.When Gordon set down the tree ready for extraction, it marked the end of an e...

With some old hands, a young boss, new machinery, and women at the controls, all working on schedule for a well-respected forestry company, Goodman Logging is a snapshot of the modern era.And if there’s a type of character who might illustrate the changes that have taken place in forestry in rece...