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LOGGING & BIOMASS NEWS
New factory representative for Pacific Northwest
Tigercat has announced that
Kusiah McCullough has been
appointed to the position of factory
representative for Washington and
Oregon.
Based in Shelton, Washington,
Kusiah has been involved in many
aspects of the logging industry in
the Pacific northwest for his entire
working career. His specialties
include steep ground logging
application with a lot of seat
time in both the Tigercat LS855C
shovel and the L870 series feller
bunchers. Kusiah also has several
years of experience managing field
operations for various logging
companies.
“I have operated almost
every machine utilized in timber
harvesting and I find Tigercat far
superior to any competitive brand.
The customer service, quality and
safety of the machinery and the fact
that Tigercat is at the forefront of
modern logging techniques makes
them the pinnacle of all timber
harvesting machinery,” Kusiah
comments.
With a somewhat unique
perspective stemming from his
experience as a machine operator
and field manage r, Kusiah will be
primarily involved with product
support and operator training.
“I want to enable customers to
safely and efficiently realize the
full potential of the equipment
they have purchased and to teach
new and innovative techniques
especially as they pertain to steep
ground logging.”
Kusiah McCullough
Roseburg names Pete Hancock as Roanoke
Timberlands manager
Roseburg announced that Pete
Hancock has accepted the position
of Roanoke Timberlands Manager,
effective May 7, 2018. In this role,
Hancock will oversee the day-to-
day harvest and land management
activities on Roseburg’s 158,000-
acre fee land base in North Carolina
and Virginia.
A 2001 graduate of Virginia
Tech where he earned a Bachelor
of Science degree in Forestry,
Hancock has built an impressive
17-year consulting, industrial forest
management, and supervisory
career. He joins Roseburg from GFR
Forestry Consultants, where he has
provided clients in northeast North
Carolina and southeast Virginia
with high-level timber sale, forest
management, strategic harvest,
and land use planning services for
the past 12 years. During college,
Hancock spent his summer months
interning for International Paper.
After graduation, he leveraged that
experience into an Area Forester
position in the Roanoke area until
the properties were sold in 2006.
“On the operations side,
Pete adds immediate value,”
said Gabe Crane, Roseburg
Director of Resource Operations
and Marketing. “His extensive
knowledge of local log markets and
existing relationships with facilities
and contractors in the area will
seamlessly integrate our direct log
and stumpage sales programs.”
“On the management side,
Pete’s passion for best science-
based planning, loblolly pine
silviculture and the Roanoke land
base line up with our long-term
management principles and
vision,” said Phil Adams, Roseburg
Director of Timberlands. “Pete is a
great fit for Roseburg, and we look
forward to taking our management
of the Roanoke timberlands to the
next level together.”
Pete Hancock
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