Let the Sawdust Fly

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By: MWC

Guest host Pete Wood - a logger from Canyon Minnesota - discusses issues surrounding Northern Minnesota's logging industry.

Wednesday 11/26/25
Today at 8:19 PM

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Wednesday 10/29/25
10/29/2025

Dennis Schoeneck & Laura Delaney were guests of Pete Wood talking about their WI based Timber Cooperative...

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Wednesday 9/24/25
09/24/2025

Pete Wood had DJ Aderman - President of Futurewood Corp, and Bill Johnson - CEO of Johnson Timber Corp, to discuss a proposed facility in Hayward WI that would produce jet fuel using wood biomass...

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Wednesday 8/27/25
08/27/2025

Kent Jacobson was a guest...

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Wednesday 7/30/25
07/30/2025

Chad Black - President of Bioleum Corporation was a guest on Pete Wood and like last month talked about using wood biomass and how to produce Jet Fuel, and more...

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Wednesday 6/25/25
06/25/2025

Sarah Montalbano from Center of the American Experiment -The Environmental Costs of Wind and Solar and the role of wood biomass...

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Wednesday 5/28/25
05/28/2025

Part 2 - Canyon MN logger Pete Wood and his guest Richard Schwab owner of M.A. Rigoni Inc. a logging firm based in Perry, Florida...

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Wednesday 4/30/25
04/30/2025

Canyon MN logger Pete Wood and his guest Richard Schwab owner of M.A. Rigoni Inc. a logging firm based in Perry, Florida...

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Wednesday 3/26/25
03/26/2025

Canyon MN based logger Pete Wood had American Loggers Council - Executive Director Scott Dane as a guest this month...

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Wednesday 2/26/25
02/26/2025

Pete Wood had last month's guest John McCarthy a Cal-Fire forester from Sacramento, and forester Justin Britton with Cal-Fire Sacramento as well...

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Wednesday 1/29/25
01/29/2025

Pete Wood had John McCarthy a Cal-Fire forester from Sacramento and Eric Just who is a Division Chief from Cal-Fire San Diego, and be sure to listen at the end as to what is coming up next month...

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Tuesday 12/31/24
12/31/2024

Pete's guest this month was Mark Kayser plant manager at MN Power's Hibbard Renewable Energy Center that utilizes waste wood to provide a renewable low sulfur fuel source.(Due to year ending holidays the program was moved to Tuesday, 12/31)

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Wednesday 11/27/24
11/27/2024

Pete Wood with his guests Mike and Vicki Albrecht loggers from Sonora CA - Mike is also the President of the American Loggers Council....

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Wednesday 10/30/24
10/30/2024

This month's guest was Stephen Setliff an attorney from the state of Virginia...

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Wednesday 9/25/24
09/25/2024

Co-host Pete Wood had Shawn Sunnarborg as a guest...

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Wednesday 8/28/24
08/28/2024

Jeff Shay with the MN State Highway Patrol Commercial Division from Hibbing was a guest this month with Pete Wood...

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Tuesday 7/30/24
07/30/2024

Pete's guest this month was Matt Slingerland who will be competing in the Lumberjack World Championship at Hayward this weekend...

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Wednesday 6/26/24
06/26/2024

Retired US Navy Commander and Ely native James Kuehl was an in-studio guest making an encore appearance from one-year-ago...

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Wednesday 5/29/24
05/29/2024

Idaho logger Mark Mahon was back for Part 2 and shared some interesting details how logging is done in New Zealand and more...

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Wednesday 4/24/24
04/24/2024

Idaho logger Mark Mahon was Pete's guest this month...

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Wednesday 3/27/24
03/28/2024

An encore performance... Don Bright owner of Meherrin River Forest Products in the state of Virginia, and Frank Myers, a logger also from Virginia were both guests of Pete Wood this month just as they were in February...

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Thursday 2/29/24
02/29/2024

Don Bright owner of Meherrin River Forest Products in the state of Virginia, and Frank Myers, a logger also from Virginia were both guests of Pete Wood this month...

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Wednesday 1/31/24
01/31/2024

Pete's guest this month was Dave Abbott, Senior Editor for Hatton-Brown Publishers who produce world-class publications for the forest products industry, including Timber Harvesting and Southern Loggin' Times magazines...

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Wednesday 12/27/23
12/27/2023

Tom Hirt, a Texas business owner and consultant with the timber industry, this marks his third time on the program having been a guest of Pete's on 11/25/20 and 5/26/21...

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Wednesday 11/29/23
11/29/2023

Pete Wood's guest this month is Emily Jo Williams the VP of the Southeast & Atlantic Coast Region for the American Bird Conservancy. 

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Wednesday 10/25/23
10/25/2023

Pete Wood had Jimmie Locklear as a call-in guest...

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Wednesday 9/27/23
09/27/2023

Pete Wood had Lonard Scofield dos Santos from Brazil as this months guest...

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Thursday 8/31/23
08/31/2023

Pete Wood's guest this month was Troy Brown, he is President of the Great Lakes Timber Professionals...

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Thursday 7/27/23
07/27/2023

From the 2023 Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward WI were DJ Aderman, Chief of Competition, two competitors were husband and wife Adam and Samantha LaSalle and of course co-host Pete Wood... 

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Thursday 6/29/23
06/29/2023

Ret. Commander USN and Ely MN native James Kuehl was an in-studio guest as was  Scott Dane the Executive Director of the American Loggers Council...

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Wednesday 5/31/23
05/31/2023

Rick Quaglioroli owns Swamp Fox Agency based in Moncks Corner SC and was a guest of Pete Wood talking about the insurance side of trucking for loggers...

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Tuesday 4/25/23
04/25/2023

A move to Tuesday this month, Pete's guests were two loggers from the state of Rhode Island. Bob Thurber of Jerimoth Forestry and Bob Verrier of Verrier Tree Service Inc. shared the challenges and logging efforts in their state...

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Wednesday 3/29/23
03/29/2023

California logger Russ Hawkins was a guest this month, he operates Del Logging with his wife Helen and sons Colton and Hunter

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Wednesday 2/22/23
02/22/2023

Crad Jaynes the President of the South Carolina Timber Producers Assn. was this month's guest of co-host Pete Wood.

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Wednesday 1/25/23
01/25/2023

The management team from Navistar International were guests of co-host Pete Wood. Mike Noonan, Darren Gosbee, Bob Mann, and Mark Stasell talked about the future of the trucking industry in general. Navistar, based in Lisle IL, operates as the owner of International-branded trucks and diesel engines.

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Wednesday 12/28/22
12/28/2022

Part 3 - Pete Wood and Missouri based logger Travis Yake who provides the white oak for Ed Belfour to make the barrels for his whiskey.

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Wednesday 11/30/22
11/30/2022

Part 2 - Pete Wood's guest was Missouri based logger Travis Yake who provides the white oak for last month's guest Ed Belfour to make the barrels for his whiskey...

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Wednesday 10/26/22
10/26/2022

Part 1 - Hockey Hall of Fame goalie Eddie "The Eagle" Belfour was a call-in guest to talk about his brand of whiskey and the importance of logging and timber to the industry of making whiskey.

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Wednesday 9/28/22
09/28/2022

Pete Wood had Chuck Scherer from Nelson Wood Shims located in Cohasset MN as a studio guest...

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Wednesday 8/31/22
09/01/2022

Palmer and Nicole Duggar from the state of Virginia were guests of Pete Wood...

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