Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Contributing Editor Connie Ness has the opportunity to visit Forest Energies, LLC in Jasper, Alabama. Forest Energies LLC is not a traditional Southern logging company. This is not a story about a family business passed from one generation to the next; it is a story about a company that has some smart ideas about running a timber company. Forest Energies is a vertically integrated timber company that buys standing timber in lump sum contracts and then harvests and hauls the wood to market. “People ask me, are ya’ll a timber broker? I say, yes. Are you loggers? I say, well, we’re a harvesting company. What are you mainly? At the end of the day, we’re really a hauling company,” says Ricky Freeman, president. This wasn’t how the company first operated in 2012 when Freeman and CEO Lenn Morris founded the business.

Featured Story: “Forest Energies’ Way”

Written By: Connie Ness
Company: Forest Energies, LLC
Location: Jasper, Alabama
SLT Issue: December 2014

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Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s December 2014 issue features Jasper, Alabama’s Forest Industries, LLC, Louisville, Mississippi’s Johns Logging, LLC, Glennville, Georgia’s Foster Logging, Inc., and White Plains, Georgia’s Plains Logging Company and AllWood Equipment Company. Other articles highlight the latest industry news and the 2014 Editorial Index.