Family members have logged Northeastern New York timber since 1954, and Hankle Lumber Inc. remains family owned and operated today. Based in East Nassau, the company turns regional logs into native lumber for customers ranging from builders to local farms, with its sawmill’s wood by-products also serving agricultural and landscaping uses.
Gutchess Lumber Co., IncSince 1904, fifth-generation family- and employee-owned Gutchess Lumber has produced northern hardwood lumber through a vertically integrated operation spanning timberlands, sawmills and dry kilns in New York and Pennsylvania. Headquartered in Cortland, the company runs seven facilities, four band mills and more than 29,000 acres of managed timberland, with over 500 employee-owners supporting production and global shipment. Its forestry-led approach emphasizes responsible harvesting, natural regeneration and using the full harvest, including turning lower-grade material into useful by-products.CORTLAND, NY
Cannonsville Lumber IncFamily-owned and operated in Deposit, New York, Cannonsville Lumber is a Catskill Region forest-products company producing roughly 20,000 board feet of rough-cut green lumber each day for custom and industrial customers. A division of Schaefer Enterprises, which has operated for more than 20 years, it also provides forestry and trucking services while following the owners’ “no tree before its time” approach to harvesting.DEPOSIT, NY
Heacock LumberHeacock Lumber is a family sawmill dating to 1918 that produces rough-cut hardwood lumber and custom-saws logs at its Bucks County mill. The Hunsberger family has operated the sawmill since purchasing it in 1974, continuing a local tradition that includes making survey stakes and turning milling byproducts into mulch and firewood. Its timber work follows Sustainable Forestry Initiative of Pennsylvania practices, with an emphasis on long-term woodlot management rather than clearcutting.PLUMSTEADVILLE, PA
Hud-Son Forest EquipmentFamily roots run deep at Hud-Son Forest Equipment, a New York company that began as Oscar Hudon’s logging business in 1946 and remains family-owned. Now operating with a fourth generation entering the business, Hud-Son manufactures portable sawmills for people who want to process timber themselves, from homesteaders to commercial forestry users.BARNEVELD, NY