Into the woods: how the logging industry is courting millennials

Construction is booming – and yet loggers are facing a labor shortage. Can new technology attract young people to a life in the forest?On a steep slope just inland from Waldport, Oregon, a young forestry worker named Jared Foster is at the controls of a large machine called a forwarder. The machine, made by Finnish company Ponnse, looks like it was designed by Michael Bay. The front section contains a climate-controlled cabin, in which Foster sits, listening to a country music station as h