Logger of the Year Nomination Form

Nominee establishes and enforces harvesting and transportation safety standards/regulations/practices ... and personally adheres to them?

• Nominee and employees use personal protective equipment?
• Nominee provides safety training for employees?
• Describe safety features or modifications on harvesting/transportation equipment.
• Nominee has developed unique approaches to safety (i.e. bonus for number of hours of safe work, etc.).
• Other safety information?

• Nominee knows and follows AF&PA's Sustainable Forestry Guidelines.
• List types of harvest (clearcut, selection, thinning, etc.) performed by nominee.
• Describe how nominee plans, constructs, and retires landings and road systems.
• Nominee follows forest management plans?
• Nominee carries out soil erosion protection measures?
• Nominee has developed some unique approaches to forest management with landowners?
• Other forest management information?

• Describe nominee's major harvesting and transportation equipment mix.
• Scheduled maintenance program?
• Appearance of equipment?
• Nominee's utilization standards? • Nominee practices top and slash disposal?
• Nominee concerned with aesthetics of timber harvesting?
• Nominee cleans up landings at job completion?
• Nominee leaves buffer strips?
• Nominee adheres to local timber harvesting ordinances/regulations?
• Nominee has harvested timber from certified Tree Farms?
• Other timber harvesting information?

• List number and job titles of nominee's employees.
• Describe types of insurance (Workers Comp, health, retirement, liability, life, hazard) which
• nominee carries for operation, employees, or himself.
• Describe relationship between nominee and local business community.
• Nominee uses written contracts when purchasing or cutting and hauling timber?
• Describe nominee's payroll and bookkeeping system.
• Other business management information?

OTHER INFORMATION:

• Nominee's previous awards?

• Does nominee maintain any community or association memberships? Has he/she ever served on any committees, held offices, or been active in other programs?

• Does nominee have any family involvement in the business?

• Describe nominee's ability to work cooperatively with landowners, foresters, general public, other loggers, press, etc.

• Nominee distributes literature (forest management, association membership, safety, etc.)?

• Describe how nominee handles referrals for forest management assistance.

• Describe any presentations on logging/harvesting made by nominee.

• List or describe any news articles, press coverage, etc. on logging/timber harvesting by nominee.

• Does nominee participate in Log-A-Load For Kids campaign or other charitable fund-raising activities?

• Other?

• Award program is open to all independent harvest or logging contractors. The nominee must be free to sell products to multiple buyers and not generally be “captive” to a single company, corporation, or mill.
• Nominee must be a Tennessee Master Logger.

• Award program is open to all independent harvest or logging contractors. The nominee must be free to sell products to multiple buyers and not generally be “captive” to a single company, corporation, or mill.
• Nominee must be a Tennessee Master Logger.

• Nomination forms must be completed accurately and legibly.
• All nominations must be submitted on 8 ½”x 11” paper (unbound), signed and dated by two sponsors, and will become the property of Tennessee Forestry Association.
• At least one close-up head-and-shoulders color print or black and white photo of the award nominee is required. Additional information and photos are strongly suggested; however, the total cannot exceed 20 pages (one side) or 10 pages (both sides). No videos, slides, or photocopies, please.
• Include Award Nomination Form must be a separate page.
• Submit Award Nomination Form via Email to
Tennessee Forestry Association, cdinwiddie@tnforestry.com or
mail to
P.O. Box 2900693
Nashville, TN 37229.
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