Autonomous skidders that drag felled trees around logging sites. A database detailing each tree in the forest. A screen that shows loggers which trees to cut and which to leave standing to maximize financial returns decades down the line. Weyerhaeuser, the country’s top logger and one of its oldest companies, is betting artificial intelligence can deliver these and other big changes to American forestry, which has come a long way from oxen and axes. Many applications envisioned by Weyerhaeuser executives are unique to a company that manages timberlands in the US and Canada that together cover an area roughly the size of Indiana. …Among the initiatives is the creation of a digital twin of Weyerhaeuser’s timberlands using satellite imagery, drone photography and lidar. …Weyerhaeuser is also studying semiautonomous logging equipment. At a meeting with investors, executives showed video of a driverless skidder, dragging freshly downed timber around a Southern logging site. [to access the full story a WSJ subscription is required]