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WE LIVE HERE: Ian Snider, 34, issues continuous, gentle commands to Jim, a Suffolk Punch work horse who can pull a 3,000-pound load. “I have empathy for my working partner,” Snider says, “which you don’t have with a tractor.” Owner of Mountain Works Sustainable Development, Snider is a forester who uses horse-power rather than extraction machinery, a method important in situations like this one, a mountainside in the small town of Creston, North Carolina selectively cleared for a bird habitat. He’s teaching this “tool that’s still important to keep in the toolbox for modern forestry,” to students at Appalachian State University.
JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
Photograpphed, Monday, January 9, 2017, in Creston,, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
Photograpphed, Monday, January 9, 2017, in Creston,, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals

