Louisiana Logger’s Association and PAC

09/07/2026

Donald J. Trump we need your help!

We need action now from the Administration before it is too late!

09/07/2026

The math isn’t mathing. Something doesn’t add up. Couple that with recent statements that tanker traffic is back to 90% of pre-conflict levels, then shouldn’t prices be going down? Profiteering?

09/07/2026

09/04/2026

WHY IS THE U.S. EXPORTING FUEL?!

The United States exported a record-high average of 13.6 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil and petroleum products in April 2026, driven by global supply disruptions. Source: U.S. Energy Information Association.

NO WONDER OIL COMPANIES ARE POSTING RECORD PROFITS! AT THE EXPENSE OF THE AMERICAN CONSUMER.

Chevron just announced its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell clocked its second-highest quarterly profits. And while ExxonMobil's profits came in beneath what Wall Street analysts had expected, it still managed to double its earnings compared with this time last year.

Fuel Costs are at record highs and climbing and are in crisis territory. Logging and trucking are threatened, with no relief in sight. Loggers and truckers cannot tack on a fuel adjustment.

Canada suspended their fuel taxes last April and recently extended the exemption. The U.S. has done nothing.

The timber industry runs on diesel. It is the Elephant in the Room (the obvious issue that the government does not want to talk about). Perhaps we should have used a Camel because fuel costs are the straw that has broken the Camels back.

There are immediate actions that the government can take to provide some relief. We have submitted them to Washington DC. Crickets…….

09/04/2026

THE LOGGING INDUSTRY HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN.

For generations, the logging and timber industry has been an economic engine for rural communities across this country.

We are an industry of PRODUCERS.

We work.
We harvest.
We haul.
We manufacture.
We employ.
We keep rural America working.

But today, our industry is facing a PERFECT STORM.

🪵 LOSS OF MARKETS — Mills are closing, production is shrinking, and demand for our DOMESTIC timber is disappearing.

⛽ HIGH FUEL COSTS — Every mile from the woods to the mill costs more, cutting deeper into an already-thin margin.

🛡️ HIGH COMMERCIAL INSURANCE — Insurance costs have become an enormous burden for logging contractors and log truckers, making it harder and harder to stay in business.

👷 LOW WORKFORCE — Our workforce is aging, qualified drivers and logging professionals are increasingly difficult to find, and there aren’t enough people entering the industry to replace those leaving it.

One of these problems alone would be difficult.

All four at once?

That’s a crisis.

And when logging operations shut down, the impact doesn’t stop at the woods.

It reaches the truck driver.
The mechanic.
The equipment dealer.
The fuel supplier.
The mill worker.
The landowner.
The local business.
And the rural community that depends on the support.

Yet our country continues to add roadblocks and regulations while American production is pushed aside.

When will we incentivize DOMESTIC PRODUCTION?

When will we remove unnecessary barriers that make it harder to produce the resources our country needs?

When will we stop making it easier to buy from somewhere else than to produce it here at home?

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A HANDOUT.

We are asking for the opportunity to work, produce and compete.

America cannot afford to lose the people who produce the raw materials that keep this country moving.

Our industry is hurting.
Our rural communities are hurting.
And the clock is ticking.

ARE YOU LISTENING YET?

Because by the time everyone realizes what we’ve lost, it may be too late to rebuild it.

09/03/2026

If something doesn’t happen soon our Loggers will no longer be around to “Fix our Forest” or “Reduce Wildfire Risk”! Fuel is devastating the logging industry rapidly!

09/01/2026

No good news coming our way!

Louisiana-Pacific Jasper set to Close Indefinitely

Multiple sources have now confirmed that Louisiana-Pacific-Jasper informed employees Tuesday morning, that the Jasper mill will close indefinitely at the end... ⬇️⬇️READ MORE⬇️⬇️

09/01/2026

For decades, the timber industry has defended how forests are managed.

But did we gradually stop explaining what working forests produce?

The timber industry has worked to answer environmental criticism by explaining how forests are managed.

That stewardship story matters—and it must continue.

But somewhere along the way, the industry became far better at defending the practice of forestry than explaining the commodity that makes working forests economically possible.

Timber gradually disappeared from the center of the story.

That communication imbalance has consequences. When policymakers and the public see forests primarily as environmental assets, they may fail to recognize:

• The income and market risk carried by timber producers
• The dependence of working forests on competitive wood markets
• The strategic importance of mills and wood-manufacturing capacity
• The economic damage caused when that infrastructure disappears

A mill closure is not merely an isolated corporate decision. It can eliminate a market for thousands of landowners, destabilize logging businesses, reduce rural employment, and weaken the economic foundation that keeps land in working forests.

We should continue explaining how forests are managed—but we must also lead with what working forests produce.

Stewardship explains how forests are managed.

Commodity leadership explains why working forests matter.

Has forestry’s stewardship message become so dominant that the commodity and manufacturing story is being lost?

08/31/2026

Yesterday, we looked at what has happened to the price of the commodity Southern timberland owners grow.

Today, we look at what has happened to the businesses that harvest it.

Logger compensation has lost purchasing power, while equipment, diesel, labor, and insurance costs have climbed. You cannot sustain a forest industry when the value returned to both landowners and loggers keeps falling behind the cost of doing business.

The squeeze is real—and it is getting harder to ignore.