Badger’s most important role in logging was that it was from there that the “Badger Drive” was conducted.  This log drive took place on the Exploits River between Badger and Grand Falls and was carried on between 1908-1991.  The Badger Drive was famously described by John V. Devine in his song The Badger Drive.

All of the pulpwood from Millertown to Badger divisions west of Badger had to pass through this area.  To facilitate this, hundreds of men were employed keeping the logs flowing down the river.   In 1911, the Reed Company began a series of sale of timber rights with the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company which led to the latter’s acquisition of timber limits in the area.  In 1910-1911 A.N.D. established the Badger Woods Division to facilitate logging operations. From that point and up until 1965 the AND Company would be the most important work force in the local economy.

In 1911 the company built warehouses, repairs shops, blacksmith forges, and a cable scow across the Exploits River to facilitate the movement of men, horses and supplies to logging operations across the river.