Logging

After more than a year of soggy weather, loggers and mill operators say their industry needs help adapting to climate change. A bipartisan group of Vermont lawmakers have proposed a $5 million plan.

Warm temperatures through December into early January have taken their toll on Vermont's logging industry. And the warming climate is just one of the challenges the industry is facing.

The last major log drive on the Connecticut River was held in 1915. The drives would start in late spring and last through the summer and could jam the…