• Stephens Logging is featured in a short video (available online soon) by Dewey Lansing of "Forests of Mystery"

• General manager Brian Stephens is honored at a local logging symposium in Astoria, Oregon.

• Meet the newest addition to our equipment roster - the Peterson Horizontal Grinder.

• Stephens Logging finalizes a land use sharing agreement with the Cascade Forest Research Center.

• Sudden wind storm temporarily halts production at Stephens Logging mill.

• Stephens Logging acquires bid for 500 acres of thinning work on private Tillamook County property.
  
  

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Family owned and operated custom mill and contract logging

In 1922 Joseph Stephens and his son Merrill set up a small, steam driven mill on 200 acres of family-owned forest just outside of Vernonia primarily to supply local ranchers, farmers and business owners with high-quality beams and dimensional lumber for their building needs. 90 years later, with a name change to Stephens Logging, the company's primary focus is contract logging for private woodlot owners. The original mill has been converted to electric, and still operates as a custom mill specializing in single-tree wooden beams up to 12x18 inches in dimension and up to 40 feet in length. 

Still a family operation, Doug Stephens, grandson of Merrill, runs the mill. Doug's wife Cathy (and her bulldog Rusty) can be found almost every day answering phones and running the office. Their son Brian Stephens is General Manager of Logging Operations. Their daughter Brittany Stephens, a graduate student working on her Masters in Forest Ecology, runs this website while also working as a botany specialist at the Cascade Forest Research Center. 

Stephens Logging is an environmentally conscious company, with a four-star rating from Earth Friends Northwest. Safety is the most important factor at Stevens Logging, and we are proud to have gone over 250 working days without an accident. 

Our goal is to provide the highest quality contract logging services in the Pacific Northwest. We provides honest estimates and strive to deliver on time, on quote, and to your exact manufacturing specifications. 

• We perform a detailed site analysis before every project to determine the most efficient harvesting strategy that also minimizes environmental impact.
  
• Whenever possible we create our own temporary roadbeds using processor slash.
  
• Rather than building a landing for load-out we typically deck the timber as we go and load out from back to front.
  
• Wherever the job requirements and budget allow we prefer to mulch all slash and leave it on-site rather than create burn piles.
  
• One of our main criteria when purchasing new equipment is fuel efficiency and ease of serviceability.
  
• On clear days our mill and business office operate almost entirely on solar power with only minimal supplemental electricity from the grid.
  
• In the winter we heat our facilities with hot water radiant heaters fed by wood-fired boilers.
  
• Our custom-designed equipment monitoring software tracks usage of every piece of equipment and alerts our full-time mechanical staff when to perform preventative maintenance, rather than wait for expensive in-the-field breakdowns.