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FLATLAND LOGGING

Rexford, Montana-native Pat Marvel has spent almost half his career logging island mountain ranges across the flatlands east of the Divide and, contemplating the end of his career, he talked about the future of the business he built and the state of the logging industry.

Marvel Logging occupies a former mechanic shop east of Havre. The stack of delimbed pine logs that occupy a portion of the parking area sit in stark contrast to the backdrop of Milk River Valley cottonwood trees and the vast stretch of prairie that fills the horizon all around.

"Logging is logging," Pat said, whether logging in mountainous western Montana or the hills of the east.

The trip to the job site is similar. You follow a series of ever smaller, more rugged roads until you start to think you might be lost, then you see signs of recent logging, starting with bark in the road, like...

 

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