2007 MFA 
Logger of the Year
Since 1987, the Maryland Forests Association has awarded the Logger of the Year to recognize and promote excellence in logging practices, improve forester-landowner relations by publicly recognizing outstanding logging performance as an essential element of every planned timber harvest, and finally to encourage peers to emulate the outstanding performance of award winners. The nominee should epitomize a Maryland Master Logger. His logging operation should be an example of safety and show the quality results commensurate with excellent forestry practices.

Landowners, Foresters, and Mill Owners - Know loggers that have done an excellent job? Find out how to nominate them for the 2008 MFA Logger of the Year by July 1, 2008.
Roy and Shawn Goad receive the 2007 Logger of the Year plaque and chainsaw

L-R: MFA President John Foster, MLSC Chair BillCheesman, Atlantic Tractor General Manager Doug Green, Mrs. Roy (Ivadell) Goad, Roy Goad, Shawn Goad, Mrs. Shawn (Kelly) Goad, nominating forester Jim Klunk.
When it comes to longevity in the logging business, Roy Goad has been in business for 50 years, having done everything from building and managing sawmills to owning a logging operation. During that time, he has gained a reputation as a safe, reliable and honest logging operation. Roy and his son Shawn are the 'R & S' and along with Ivan Miller, saw hand, makeup R & S Logging Company. Their equipment mix consists of a Prentice 410E loader, a JD 843G cutter, three skidders (240B cable, JD 648, timberjack), a Cat D4E dozer. Hauling is done with either a 2004 Peterbuilt or a 2004 Kenworth road tractor.

Meeting with the landowner before and after the harvesting operation, R & S Logging is a logger for the landowner. Roy is concerned about the landowner's objectives and seeing that the landowner is satisfied with his logging operation. Roy is also concerned about leaving buffers both along streams and also visual buffers. Having a D-4 bulldozer, R & S Logging is able to construct their own decks and install roadways and skid paths. But just as important, R & S Logging is able to properly close out their decks by installing the proper BMP erosion controls.

Being a small operation, R & S Logging has the ability to utilize many products from the harvest. They merchandise pulpwood, firewood and select veneer logs, while sorting the rest of the logs by species and size. Being small, enables R & S Logging to be a mobile. Based in Millington, MD they log on the upper Eastern Shore in the summer and spend the winter months in Southern, MD.

Roy has been involved in a lot over the past 50 years, from supplying timbers for the dock at the Statue of Liberty, to floorboards for the Pride of Baltimore ship, to storm cleanup for local municipalities, to helping at a Girl Scout camp. R & S Logging has come into the computer era by having their company depicted on the web.

R & S Logging has the experience and expertise to help ensure that landowners will have a successful harvest. They provide a complete management service and are careful to enhance wildlife and water quality. When you talk to Roy and Shawn, you understand they are concerned about forests for the future.

"I've had the opportunity to work with R&S Logging ever since I started my consulting business back in 1995. I have found them to be one of the most conscientious and conservation minded loggers working in the Upper Eastern Shore counties where I do most of my business. Not only is their reputation impeccable, but the way they treat both the landowner and his/her forest resources is second to none.

Roy and Shawn Goad, father and son, both demand my deepest respect for the professional way in which they conduct their logging operations. I was honored to nominate them as candidates for MFA's Logger of the Year award. When I heard that they had won the award, I was quite excited knowing that they had received some well deserved recognition." Jim Klunk, Klunk Forestry Services, Inc.

 MFA sponsors the MD/DE Master Logger Program which trains and recognizes timber harvesters who have committed to being the safest, most environmentally conscientious loggers possible.

Since 1987, MFA has awarded the Logger of the Year to recognize and promote excellence in logging practices. To learn more about MFA and its programs contact 301/895-5369 or contact mdforests@hereintown.net

MFA Logger of the Year Hall of Fame:

2006 Sines Logging, Friendsville, MD

2005 Cessna Brothers Logging, Clearville, PA **

2004 ~ Curtis E. Clark & Sons Logging, Everett, PA

2003 ~ Paul Egolf, Low Country Timber Company, Stockton, MD

2002 ~ Beckman Lumber, Mt. Lake Park, MD

2001 ~ Steve Brown, Lonngridge, LLC , Fruitland, MD

2000 - Clyde "Stevie" Stevenson, Ota Stevenson, Inc., Salisbury, MD**

1999 - Calvin Dolan, Jr., Dolan Logging, Oldtown, MD

1998 - Phil MacDonald, Timber Harvest, Inc., Cordova, MD

1997 - David Earl Opel, Double D Logging, Frostburg, MD

1996 - Payne's Logging, Inc., Delmar, MD

1995 - Arthur Egolf, Egolf Forest Harvesting, Delmar, DE

1994 - Jim Lynch, L&W Harvesting, Inc., Mardella Springs, MD

1993 - Fred Glasglow, Glasglow Logging, Salisbury, MD

1992 - Richard R. Brown, Salisbury, MD

1991 - Greg VanMeter, VanMeter pulpwood Company, Bushwood, MD

1990 - Eddie Moore, Willards, MD

1989 - D&J Timber, Swanton, MD

1988 - C.W. Matthews & Sons, Laurel, DE

1987 - Wallace Johnson, Mechanicsville, MD**

 

**These loggers have gone on to win the Forest Resources Association's
Regional Outstanding Logger of the Year Awards.

Wallace Johnson for the Appalachian Technical Division in 1988,
"Stevie" Stevenson for the Southeastern Technical Division in 2001, and
Cessna Brothers Logging for the Appalachian Technical Division in 2006.

MFA Logger of the Year Nomination Procedure:

Eligibility: The award program is open to all independent wood fiber harvesting or logging contractors. The nominee must be free to sell products to multiple buyers and not generally be "captive" to a single company, corporation, or mill.

Judging: The nominations will be judge by members of the MD/DE Master Logger Steering Committee on behalf of the MFA Board of Governors. Finalists judged by on-the-ground inspection visit by a 2 or 3 member team appointed by the Board.

Prizes: Lase engraved wooden plaque, complimentary registration and guest package for finalist (and spouse) at the MFA Annual Meeting, and other awards donated by MFA sponsors. The finalist will automatically be nominated to either the Appalachian Technical Division or Southeastern Technical Division Outstanding Logger Award Program.

Who can submit a nomination? Anyone! Forest Landowners, foresters, forest products companies and fellow loggers are all encouraged to submit a letter of nomination for any logger they feel exemplifies the best in logging contractors. You do not need to be an MFA member to nominate someone for this award.

Deadline:
Letters of nomination must be received by the MFA Office in Grantsville by July 1, 2008.

Contact the MFA office by phone at 301/895-5369 or via email at mdforests@hereintown.net

Forest Fact: The efficiency of wood utilization has improved dramatically since 1900. Much less material is being left in the woods, many sawmills produce twice or more the usable lumber and other products per log output that they did in 1900, engineering standards and designs have reduced the volume of wood used per square foot of building space, and preservative treatments have substantially extended the service life of wood.