Evergreen Wood Energy earns logging award
<p>The Evergreen Wood Energy crew has more than 200 years of combined experience. Pictured left to right: (back) Jim Colegrove, Bradley Barton, Frankie Mokry, Kevin Flory, Roy Marquis, (front) Vance Warden, Jamie Barton and Alan Flory. Not pictured: Heck Oxford. —Photo by Laura Roady</p>
By LAURA ROADY
Staff writer
BONNERS FERRY — For their outstanding work in the woods, Evergreen Wood Energy received the 2013 Idaho Tree Farm program’s Outstanding Logger of the Year award.
With over 200 years of combined experience in the woods, Alan Flory and his crew are committed to utilizing natural resources in a sustainable way.
“This is the crew that helps make it happen,” said Flory. “These are the guys that do the work every day. They all had a part in it.”
A committee from the Idaho Tree Farm program visited sites that Flory and his crew worked on over the past 20 years to look at their forestry practices.
In addition to normal contract logging, Evergreen Wood Energy is involved in forest health, fire mitigation, silviculture, wood to energy and the Kootenai River habitat restoration program.
“Logging is not a bad thing. It is a renewable resource,” said Roy Marquis. “It is out there to be used right and with care for the environment.”
Their dedication to the environment was showcased in a documentary produced for the Smithsonian exhibit “The Way We Worked” that visited Boundary County Museum last summer.
“We want to see the county grow and use the resources,” said Flory. “It can really supply jobs and we can do good things in the woods.”
This is the second time Flory received the Outstanding Logger of the Year award. In 1998, Flory, Rob Flory and crew received the same award.
“We have lots of loggers who do good work,” said Flory. “The county is full of talent and a lot of diversity.”