SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 20
(By Senators White, Laird and Sypolt)
Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number 51-18-
0.90(10685), known as Jumbo Bridge, in Webster County the
"Arden Cogar, Sr., Bridge".
Whereas, Webster County's Arden Cogar, Sr., is a home-grown
lumberjack, born in 1942, who has set 55 world records over the
years in several lumberjacking sports. Many of these records have
gone unbroken, specifically times for chopping horizontal 8-inch
and 12-inch round yellow poplar, vertical chopping an 8-inch and
10-inch yellow poplar, 10-inch yellow poplar, 10-inch white pine,
10-inch aspen and a 12-inch round red pine. His lumberjacking
talents also included felling trees to drive stakes, ax throwing
for accuracy and chainsawing; and
Whereas, Arden Cogar, Sr., and his wife Carol have operated
Arden Cogar Logging for years, developing methods to segregate logs
into quality units, veneer, mill logs, tie logs, pulp and other
varieties long before they were practiced at mill sites; and
Whereas, Arden Cogar, Sr., organized the Webster County
Woodchopping Contest which is one of the largest and most
successful competitions in the United States. It has gained
international status and has competitors from Canada, England,
Spain, New Zealand and Australia; and
Whereas, Arden Cogar, Sr., continues to teach the sport of
lumberjacking. While many of his students become state and
regional champions, his son Arden, Jr., and nephew Paul have also
become world champions. Arden Cogar, Sr., managed a team in 2000
that performed for the International Olympic Committee hoping to
earn the sport Olympic status in 2008. He has earned regional,
national and international acclaim in many facets of forestry and
brought much honor to West Virginia; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name
bridge number 51-18-0.90(10685), known as Jumbo Bridge, in Webster
County the "Arden Cogar, Sr., Bridge"; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is hereby
requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the bridge
as the "Arden Cogar, Sr., Bridge"; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby
directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Secretary of
the Department of Transportation and Arden Cogar, Sr.