The Softwood Forest Products Buyer - July/August 2022

FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY SHOWS
SUPPORT FOR OLD WEST INVITATIONAL
By Terry Miller
Guide: Calvin Wolf, Wolf Ranch, Hulett, WY and Youth Hunter:
Aiden Williams, Hulett, WY
Hulett, WY–Seventy-four hunters gathered here
recently for the annual Old West Invitational Turkey
Shoot. Hunters came from as far away as Maryland,
Alabama and Michigan to hunt the elusive Merriam
turkey.
Fifty-eight landowners/outfitters provided nearly
135,000 acres of hunting ground for a guide and two
hunters to chase their trophies for a day-and-a-half.
The whole town (population 309) comes together
to embrace this annual event that raises money for
the Greater Hulett Community Center, as well as the
Wyoming Wildlife Foundation.
There were 27 sponsors, of which six are involved in
the forest products industry. These included: RDO
Equipment Co., the signature sponsor and distributor
of John Deere equipment; Neiman Enterprises,
which operates four sawmills and is headquartered
Chuck Roady, F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Co., Colombia
Falls, MT; Terry Miller, The Softwood Forest
Products Buyer, Memphis, TN; and Mike Baugh,
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, MT Chapter.
in Hulett; Forest Products
Distributors Inc. that operates a
remanufacturing facility in Rapid
City, SD; RJ Olson Log Homes;
and The Softwood Forest Products
Buyer, Memphis, TN.
With a modest population and a
history that dates back to 1881,
Hulett has a strong tradition
of welcoming newcomers
with fabled Western hopitality.
Built on the banks of the Bell
Fourche River and surrounded
by the beautiful red rim rocks
of northeastern Wyoming's Bear
Lodge Mountains, Hulett is a safe
and peaceful western community.
Named for Louis Hulett and his
family, who settled here in 1881,
the town was legally incorporated
in 1951.
Devils Tower is probably the
most well-known landmark in the
Bear Lodge Mountains. Devils
Tower, a soaring volcanic uplift,
so impressed Theodore Roosevelt
that he designated it America's
first National Monument in 1906.
The Greater Hulett Community
Center is a non-profit corporation
designed to reconstruct and
re-purpose the former Hulett
School into the Greater Hulett
Community Center. n
Those that are interested, go to
www.oldwestturkeyshoot.org
Samson Bears, Jim D. Neiman and
Jim S. Neiman, Neiman Enterprises,
Hulett, WY
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