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History: The Nygaard family have been in the Pacific Northwest timber industry going on four generations so far. In 1929, Andrew Nygaard arrived from Norway and started a log rafting business on the Nehalem River near Wheeler, Oregon. Andrew’s son Martin Nygaard grew up log rafting and logging. Martin later started Warrenton Fiber and began purchasing timber to produce wood chips. Martin’s sons David and John Nygaard started their own logging business called Nygaard Logging. The family joined their companies of Warrenton Fiber and Nygaard Logging in 1999. David and John’s children are also active in the family businesses. John Nygaard’s son John M. Nygaard is involved in daily operations in addition to being an a�orney.

Present: Warrenton Fiber-Nygaard Logging has over 140 employees and is well established in the local community. In 1982, operations moved to their current lo-cation at Tansy Point in Warrenton, Oregon. The facility consists of a 750 foot long dock in deep water on the Columbia River. Tansy Point also has space for receiving, storage, and processing logs into wood chips in barges and trucks for transport to customers at paper mills.

By Dennis Anstine For the News-Times

NEWPORT — In Lin-coln County, the Warfield fam-ily is synonymous with logging. Patriarch Glenn Warfield, 90, started logging on his property east of Toledo off Elk City Road in 1968 and still keeps his eyes on an operation that includes 10 family members and a total of 24 em-ployees.Sons Scott, Sam, Rod and Terry have taken over since their father retired in 1987, which has allowed the company to operate smoothly and productively even while going through hard times during 2007-08.Thanks to a long-term contract with Se-attle-based Plum Creek Timber Co., the Warfields log year-around, primarily in the Oregon Coast Range between Flor-ence and Tillamook.By cutting and transporting raw Douglas fir and western hemlock logs, Warfield creates about 15 million board feet of

timber annually. Plum Creek is the fam-ily’s main buyer, but it also provides raw timber for Toledo’s Georgia-Pacific mill and some mills in the Willamette Val-ley.The company’s success over the last 46 years has been the result of hard work and the family’s ability to remain close-knit while operating a business that is often economically volatile. As the oldest brother and the undisputed head of the company, Scott, 60, gets the last word when important decisions need to be made. But there are no titles among the brothers “because that tends to cause fights,” he said.“I get the last say because someone has to,” says Scott, who started work-ing for the company when he was 17. “But I respect their opinions, and I like to think that I take their ideas and look at them respectfully. It’s kind of goofy, but we never have arguments.” It’s all about family, respect and a daily

Lincoln County logging

The Warfield way is all about family

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Forests provide habitat for wildlife, protection for clean water and air, and recreation for people. Since trees are a renewable resource, when man-aged sustainably they also can be used to address important human needs without ever exhausting the supply. In a world with population growing at a rate of approximately 70 million people a year, we believe trees can and should be managed well to meet basic needs in our society: shelter, sanita-

tion, packaging and c o m m u n i c a t i o n . Sustainable forestry is synonymous with Weyerhaeuser. By responsibly manag-ing our forests, we ensure our manufac-turing facilities have access to sufficient volumes of raw ma-terial while simulta-neously maintaining the benefits forests provide beyond for-est products.

We rely on comprehensive internal poli-cies and management systems to ensure we implement the most innovative, effi-cient, and sustainable practices available.

We also recognize that sustainable forestry requires continuous improvement based on a foundation of sound scientific research and technological innova-tion. We invest in research and partner with others in ways that support our activities on the ground. In 2013, we spent $22 million on forestry research that provided scientific insight into a variety of crit-ical areas, including biodiversity, fish and wildlife, and forest health and productivity.

OUR FORESTS

We intensively manage our lands using scientific principles and environmentally responsible tech-niques that enhance the production of wood, while

maintaining the over-all health of the eco-system. Many of our forests grow wood at two to three times the rate of comparable, unman-aged forests, allow-ing us to efficiently meet the needs of our customers.

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work ethic that is re-lentless.Scott, for example, figures family mem-bers and other em-ployees respect him because he still works hard every day. “I always knew where I wanted to be. I still set chokers out there,” he said. “My phi-losophy is that if you won’t do it yourself then you can’t ask someone else to do it. It’s all about respect.” Dealing with the mar-ket is not so easy, espe-cially when the reces-sion struck in 2008.“We took a huge hit, and we’re still not where we were before,” said Scott. “On average we were running 40 to 60 log trucks a day, then we were down to 8 to 10 daily over a couple of years. It was an eye-opener.”To survive, the Warfields restruc-

tured their stock, asked vendors to be patient and their bank (Or-egon Coast Bank) to believe in them.

“Having the bank be there for us was critical,” said Scott, “and very slowly it started getting better. We’re up to

about 30 to 40 loads per day now. Now that we’ve gotten through it we know we could it again if we had to.”Brenda Walters, Scott’s daughter and the company’s human resource manager, said family unity made the difference since there was only one non-Warfield em-ployee during the hard times. “Dad never gave up, and the family came together,” she said. “It was an amazing ride because we decided we’d do whatever it took to keep it going. We lost some sleep, but we made it.”The company has expanded some, which has allowed family members to take on a variety of tasks and key roles. Sam focuses on keeping the company’s machinery go-ing, while brothers Rod and Terry serve as job bosses in the field. Scott’s sons, Rob and Terry, also have responsi-bilities in the field, including

involvement with Warfield’s road build-ing branch.

Scott (left) and Sam Warfield are half of a set of brothers who keep the east county logging company Warfield Limited going strong after 46 years of cutting and transporting timber to Oregon mills. (Photo by Dennis Anstine)

1____Burying the whole bar of the saw while cutting.

2____A small boat, usually less than fourteen feet in length, equipped with an outboard motor, having directional pushing capabilities of 360 degrees.

3____The practice of welding some-thing end to end.

4____Special technique of partially cutting the extreme outside holding wood corners to prevent root pull, slabbing and alteration of the desired falling direction.

5____Diameter of the tree at breast height.

6____General reference made to a special falling technique in which the constant relationships of the face,

holding wood and backcut are inten-tionally altered to solve a particular falling problem.

7____A line used to support or stabi-lize a spar.

8____A mechanical device wherein the line is not attached to the drum and is manually spooled to control the line movement on and off the drum.

9____A type of loading boom where two tongs are used and logs are sus-pended. A transporting vehicle with multiple sets of bunks attached to a rigid frame usually used for hauling logs.

10____One of the two types of faces commonly used to fall a tree. The face section is removed from the stump of the tree.

11____An area in which the trees have not been felled in any particular lead or direction. Such a situation is a result of poor falling technique.

12____Space resulting from the cut-ting of a saw chain.

13____A thin slice of wood, sometimes taken off the stump and used to cover the saw if it’s to be left out.

14____The felling of trees without us-ing an undercut.

15____Special tool used to establish the outward lean or slant of a tree in relation to its base. Generally a lead weight attached to piece of string is used.

16____A tree stem that branches into two or more trunks or tops.

17____A weight used to swing a boom when the power unit does not have enough drums to do it mechanically.

18____Metal nail-like affair attached to the end of a logger’s measuring tape. After inserted, it will secure one end of the tape allowing the faller to proceed down the tree to accurately determine the desired length of the log.

19____Sharp or pointed end of chain saw file.

20____A grooved saddle of wood or metal rollers contained within two steel plates, attached to a tree with a strap, used as a guide for skyline, sail guy, or similar static line. It is also formed to prevent a shard bend in the line.

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The degree of attention to safety and loss control by many employers and employees is much less than it could be. The logging industry continues to report high injury frequency and se-verity rates.

At every step in the logging process, from felling the tree to transporting it to the mill or yard, workers are subject to a variety of hazards from the envi-ronment, type of work, equipment, and physical and emotional strains. Still, many logging workers either are not fully trained or approach their tasks with a risk-taking attitude. While some hazards and risks as well as un-safe worker actions are difficult to con-trol, most can be controlled, reduced, or eliminated. These controllable un-safe acts and conditions should receive the utmost priority. Not every accident or injury will be prevented, but proper safety and loss control management will minimize many risks and injuries.

SAFETY MUST BE FIRST IN ALL LOGGING ACTIVITIES!

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Accidents cost! Safe timber har-vesting opera-tions yield im-proved worker attitudes, safer work habits, fewer injuries, increased pro-duction, lower operating costs, and greater prof-itability. Nothing you or your fel-low workers do is so important that you must risk life or limb. Safety is really taking the time and making the effort to do a job correctly. Safety is nothing more than using good com-mon sense. Only the people on the job, the boss and crew, can make it safe.

ACCIDENT CAUSES

While logging injuries have been declin-ing in recent years due to mechaniza-tion, increased safety awareness, and accident prevention, the rate remains high compared to other industries.

For operations e m p l o y i n g manual chain-saw felling and delimbing, the most frequent and serious accidents in-volve workers on the ground being struck by a falling tree, limb, top, or rolling log while operat-ing a chain-

saw. For fully-mechanized operations where felling and delimbing are per-formed by a worker in the protected cab of a machine, a significant number of injuries occur during equipment re-pair and maintenance in the field. Re-cent logging injury analyses also point out that:

Nearly one-half of the injuries incurred by equipment operators are the result of slipping and falling while mounting or dismounting their machine.

Nearly 50% of all logging injuries are incurred by workers with less than one year’s experience on the job.

On mechanized operations, more ac-cidents occur at the landing than in the woods.

On fully-mechanized operations, nearly 25% of the injuries reported are the result of a truck driver, equip-ment operator, or supervisor using a chainsaw to fell or delimb an “over-size” or “difficult-to-access” tree that cannot be processed by the feller-buncher or delimber.

Nearly all logging accidents can be prevented with a strong and consis-tent commitment to safety by log-ging business owners, supervisors, and their employees; mandatory use of appropriate personal protective equipment; periodic, frequent safety training for all workers; close super-vision of new and/or inexperienced workers, zero tolerance for violation of safe working rules; and a healthy dose of common sense.

Safety in a an extremely hazardous workplace

Though winter has historically been the prime season for log-ging hereabouts, logging these days happens year-round and there are good ecological rea-sons for deciding which season is best for working on each piece of land.

Winter has long been king for the simple reason that, histori-cally, that’s when people had time for logging. A century ago, farmers and hired hands head-ed for the woods to make some extra money in the off-season. Today, many farmers still make the winter migration into the woods, but as logging has be-come more dependent upon specialized tools and skills, the part-timers have been out-numbered by the full-time pro-fessionals.

Back when all logging was done

with horses, winter was also preferred because logs could be slid on snow more easily than on bare ground. Logging jobs would be carefully laid out to make sure that every tree moved downhill, and down-hill only, from the moment it was cut to the moment it was sawed or loaded onto a truck or railcar. There was no easy way to move large logs uphill, no matter how many horses or oxen were assembled on the scene.

Today’s logging equipment brings hundreds of horsepow-er to a logging job, but winter is still the preferred season for many jobs because the soil is protected, either under a blan-ket of snow or by being frozen. Soils, especially those that are wet much of the year, are eas-ily compacted by vehicles mov-

ing through the woods, and compacted soil kills tree roots outright or make it harder for them to absorb water and nu-trients.

Some logging, however, is best done during the driest seasons of the year. Logging on steep ridges and hillsides can be too dangerous in win-ter even for modern equip-ment because compacted snow makes the ground too slippery to safely handle ei-ther logs or equipment. These jobs are usually tackled when the snow is gone and the soil is as dry as possible, to mini-mize soil disturbance and pre-vent subsequent soil erosion. And, of course, there are times when the snow is just too deep for winter logging, especially towards February and March. Skidders and forwarders can

move through several feet of snow with little difficulty, but there are parts of our two states that routinely see much more snow than that in a good winter. These jobs, too, need to wait for the summer or au-tumn.

Finally, your choice of sea-son can influence which trees will grow back afterwards. If you’re looking to grow trees from seeds that germinate best on exposed soil, you will want to log in the sum-mer months when the log-ging equipment will rough up the soil a bit and make it easier for these trees to get started. White pine is the best example of this, though the same is true for yellow birch, many of the oaks, and even hemlock. Most maple seeds, on the other hand, germi-

nate just fine on undisturbed soils, meaning that winter logging may be best if you want to favor your maples. White pine and white oak can make planning a logging job especially easy because their cones and acorns spend two years developing on the tree before falling to the ground. Foresters and loggers, there-fore, can peer up into the tree tops one autumn and know how good the cone and acorn crop will be the following au-tumn, making it possible to schedule a logging job for ex-actly when a bumper crop is getting ready to hit the ground. Red oaks and the various ma-ples also tip their hands dur-ing heavy seed years but only provide a few months notice. These species set their seeds in the spring and drop them in the autumn of the same year.

Winter versus Summer LoggingContinued on next page

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that logging is one of the most danger-ous occupations in the United States.

1. Logging Business Owners need to make Safety a #1 Priority

2. Establish a Comprehensive Safety Training Program, First Aid and CPR training.

3. Wear Personal Protective Equipment 4. Look for overhead Hazards

5. Work outside of strike zone and watch out for each other!

6. Practice Safe Directional Manual Fell-ing

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8. Retain Valuable Logging Employees

9. Be All That You Can Be mentally and physically.

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