During the winter when the Northern White Cedar of Michigan's Upper Penninsula is harvested, Town & Country builds up their inventory so that it can continue to serve all clients during the coming year. Vast acres of Northern White Cedar, a species which grows only in this area of the United States and Canada, is readily available. Yet Town & Country is always concerned that new growth is allowed to take place in areas where harvesting has occured. We utilize professional harvestors who are environmentally conscious. Nothing is wasted. The bark is used for landscaping, limbs for railing, saw dust for horse/dog bedding, and the log core produces our sap free log sidings/panelings.

Town & Country Cedar homes... We are White Cedar since 1947.

SELECTIVE HARVESTING

This is one of the processors utilized to harvest logs. It cuts the tree at the base, flips it horizonatlly to delimb the tree, then cuts to length. Specially designed equipment is used to virtually eliminate damage and enable year-round harvesting.
The 'forwarder' moves the logs from the forest to a 'collection area' accessible to log trucks. This technic replaced chain saws and horses that were used used to cut the trees and drag them out of the woods in the early 1900's.