Look! A tree-hugger!

Workers love having us onsite. Really! They even allow us to pose them for pictures occasionally.

Who loves ya, baby?

Operating a feller/buncher. Can you feel the wind from the whirling blade?

So focused on cutting this tree down. Despite having no knowledge whatsoever on how to do so...

Posing with a processor in the background.

Geez, for an industrial hygienist, this guy sure has bad posture. Ergonomics? Never heard of it.

Couldn't resist! Had to have a ride on the processor, too.

After I falled this tree, I felt extremely guilty. But it sure felt awfully good as I was falling it! Gotta got a professional-grade chainsaw for home...

Here I am "learning" the controls of a shovel. The operators kept telling me they ran just like a video game. Turns out I'm not very good at video games.

Research assistant Sebrina and I pose with a recently-felled tree. Environmentally correct? Absolutely not. Impressive? Most definitely.

Running the shovel. Not pictured: the other workers onsite, running for their very lives...

I include this picture only because harvesters are the coolest-looking piece of machinery I've seen in a long time.

Research assistant Marc and I cling to the side of a moving shovel (log loader). Look, ma, no brains!

Turns out even a MONKEY can drive a cable skidder! Well, if they get the proper training.

Marc and I trudging through the brush.

Peeking out of the cab of a grapple skidder to survey the damage I've done.

How'd my feet get so #%*(@*%# muddy?

Preparing to take this grapple skidder for a test drive.

Look out, world! Here I come, and I'm wielding a 20-ton shovel!

The test drive. I tried to only use the mighty grapple/claw for good, but I may have done some evil with it nevertheless...