Learn about logging with horses as well as modern-day logging operations. To start off our logging journey, we visit with Jason Rutledge in Floyd County, Virginia, digging deep into the old practice ...

The lather foams like soap bubbles on the horses' thick, brown coats. Steam rises from their haunches like the thermal springs in Yellowstone. Gus and Rex are working, hauling 2,000-pound walnut tree ...

"I started logging with horses in 1977," he said recently. "I loved it. I would have kept going if I could have." He got into the business because the U.S. Forest Service had areas to log that were ...