The First Family of Competitive Lumberjacking

Last weekend, members of the first family of the American forest, the Cogars, visited the Chicago area for one of competitive lumberjacking’s marquee events, the Stihl Timbersports Series’ U.S. Championships. A Cogar had won the national title seven of the previous eight years, and no one was surprised when a Cogar took home the title this year, too. Stihl is the major leagues of lumberjacking; its events are televised and plastered with corporate advertising, but they’re not where you would travel to find the soul of competitive lumberjacking. That would be Webster Springs, West Virginia, the place where the Cogars prefer for taking it out and chopping it up.

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