Forestry and Logging Sports have a long history at CSU, as apart of the Warner College of Natural Resources and as a Club Sport.  CSU has offered a forestry degree since 1909 and in 1924 held the first Foresters' Day.  Foresters' Day was a product of the very popular Forestry Club.  According to old CSU yearbooks and alumni we've had the opportunity to meet, Foresters' Day consisted of many events like those we participate in today in addition to notable speakers in the world of forestry, a banquet, and a ball.  Members of the CSU Forestry Club also took part in the Association of Western Forestry Clubs Conclave--an annual week-long event that brings teams together to learn about and discuss forestry issues at home and compete against collegiate loggers from all over the west.  The school no longer celebrates Foresters' Day, but competitve logging sports continues to exist on campus through the tireless efforts of many students, past and present. 
    The team as we know it today was created as a Club Sport in the early 1980s by a group of students from Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua, New York (http://athletics.flcc.edu/woodsmen/).  Although interest as waxed and waned over the past 3 decades, there has always been a dedicated and passionate logger (or two, during good years) to keep the sport alive at CSU.  Today, the team consists of around 15 student-athletes, most of whom are NOT forestry majors.  Along with a few forestry students, contstruction management, agriculture, philosophy, psychology, wildlife biology, natural resource managment, human dimensions of natural resources, and business students can all be found on our team.  We compete in both the Fall and Spring in California, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon against schools from Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.  Our major competition of the year is the AWFC Conclave--a week-long event whose host rotates among AWFC members.  In recent years, Cal Poly, The University of Idaho, and The University of Montana have hosted Conclave, CSU last hosted in 1991.  In 2007 the CSU hosted its first competition in at least a decade--we called it the CSU Chopping Challenge and hope that it becomes an annual event. 

The information on this page is accurate as far as we know.  If you have any information to add to our history or help make it more accurate PLEASE (please, please!) e-mail us @ CSULoggingSports@gmail.com.  Thanks!