Logging with Bill Torrey

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Bill Torrey, a logger from Jericho Vermont with 25 years of experience undertook the logging of Bread Loaf. During the summer of 2001, he worked from late July to the end of August to harvest 30,000 board feet. Torrey, who once was a paper mill logger in Maine, had worked with Vermont Family Forest before. For this particular project his assignment was to move through the forest cutting the marked beech and yellow birch as quickly as possible. Vermont Family Forests and College Forester Steve Weber would attend to the rehabilitation in the fall. Because Bread Loaf already has a substantial network of existing ski trails and logging roads, Torrey elected to use a skidder to drag the logs from the woods.

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