Horse Power

Few images conjure up visions of the good old pioneering days than a team of muscle-bound draft horses straining against their traces as they haul a skid of trees through a hardwood forest after a fresh snowfall. And though the realities of horse logging are far from romantic, this is how forests were managed in Canada before the 1930s.
Today, this form of harvesting makes up only a tenth of one per cent of the trade and is limited to a few scattered operations in most provinces. But there is a role for this animal-scale industry, and where it works, it can be both economical and environmentally sound. ...