Who Will Log?

Date	2005-08-19
Start Time	03:10 PM
End Time	04:00 PM
Summary	In response to concerns about the recruitment of workers in the logging industry in northern New England, a multiple methods study of the logging workforce in the region was conducted. Despite considerable familial attachment to logging, our study found that most loggers in the region would not encourage their sons/daughters to be loggers and only half of the loggers surveyed expected to be employed in logging in five years. Although most loggers identified positive attributres of their work as reasons for becoming loggers (e.g., they liked working outdoors), some said that they logged because there were few alternatives or because they lacked the education for other employment. In addition, most loggers in the region felt that the general public held logging in low esteem. Results have implications for logging labor supply and labor recruitment efforts in a region heavily dependent on the forest products industry.
Speaker	Andy Egan, Professor - Laval University, Quebec
Biography	Dr. Egan is Professor titulaire at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. Previously on the faculties of the University of Maine, West Virginia University, and Mississippi State University. Before academia, he was a full time logger for several years, as well as a field forester in new Hampshire, USA.