Oregon’s last horse logger and a family of foresters look to the future by carrying on a legacy of the past. Jamming a metal skidding tong into a log, Roger Daugherty draws the slack from his driving ...

In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, Brett McLeod and Camille Goethals from Paul Smith’s College share about how students and staff work with horses at the college in their forestry ...

BEAR LAKE — A blanket of snow muffled sounds deep in the woods of Bear Lake. Two horses snorted from working hard and a chainsaw fired up while Ben Reed got to work. Reed has been logging Northern ...

Nine horses got the rare opportunity to train on the Santa Anita Park turf course Oct. 22, to get in important works for upcoming Breeders' Cup races. "He came and got a pair (of workers) about 15 ...

ROCHESTER (AP) -- Tim Carroll let the leather reins in his hands slacken a bit, and he clucked his tongue softly. That's all it took. His pair of draft horses surged forward in their harnesses, a ...

This is what work looks like. Not the eye-glazing key pecking that most of us call work. Not the endless sitting and clicking and tapping. This is work: a man and two huge horses, moving trees. A huge ...

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - For students at the Hiland Hall School, forestry came to life Friday in a demonstration of logging work with two full-size black Percheron horses: Belle and Bright. Jared ...

What does a rescue work horse think about their old life before they were rescued? Was it all trauma, or were there happy moments as well? Is it something that's more complex than we'll ever really ...

Powerful and versatile draft horses are being used in Wisconsin to help a cellphone company upgrade its towers among other jobs in the fields and forests. Milwaukee Public Radio reports that draft ...