Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Managing Editor David Abbott visits Huntsville, Arkansas’ Easterling Wood Products. In the 42 years since its founding, Easterling Wood Products, Inc. has seen the ups and downs of the wood products industry, having been both much larger and smaller at different times than its current size. Today, you aren’t apt to hear too much complaining from owner Gary Easterling, 71. “It’s a rat race in the timber business, but right now things are pretty good and prices are healthy,” he reports. Though his roots in the northwest Arkansas woods go back quite a ways, Easterling is a first generation logger. His dad had a propane and appliance business in town. “There wasn’t enough excitement in that for me,” Easterling says. “The timber business excited me.” His road to the woods led him first through the academic world.

Featured Story: “Up And Down”

Written By: David Abbott
Company: Easterling Wood Products
Location: Huntsville, Arkansas
SLT Issue: November 2018

Check out other featured articles in the November 2018 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Timesmagazine’s November 2018 issue features Range, Alabama’s McDonald Timber Company, Huntsville, Arkansas’ Easterling Wood Products and Perry, Florida’s Rodney Schwab and Gary Brett, owners of M.A. Rigoni, Inc. The latest installment in our Historical Series highlights Electric Mills, Mississippi’s Sumter Lumber Company. Other articles cover the latest industry news, new products and upcoming events.