MT - Taking Control Of The Machine

Sherm Anderson got into the timber business when he was about 9 years old, spending his spare time working in a small mill and on logging crews run by his father

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Taking Control Of The Machine

Environmentalists and timber companies push big experiments in national forests

by Ray Ring
From the July 20, 2009 issue of High Country News

Caption: Sherm Anderson with some of his logging equipment by Anne Sherwood

DEER LODGE, MONTANA

Sherm Anderson got into the timber business when he was about 9 years old, spending his spare time working in a small mill and on logging crews run by his father. At 15, he began driving log trucks. At 30, he borrowed from a bank to buy a bulldozer for scraping loggers' roads and started his own company in this small blue-collar town. In his no-wasted-words manner, he says, "It just kind of grew from there."

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Web Site: http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.12/taking-control-of-the-machine/image_viewer/4

Category: Forestry>Supply

Region: Montana

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