diff --git a/webapp/config/default.log4j.properties b/webapp/config/default.log4j.properties
index 390be80e1..d3ad4f5e7 100644
--- a/webapp/config/default.log4j.properties
+++ b/webapp/config/default.log4j.properties
@@ -33,10 +33,15 @@ log4j.appender.AllAppender.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS}
 
 log4j.rootLogger=INFO, AllAppender 
 
+# These classes are too chatty to display INFO messages.
 log4j.logger.edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.startup.StartupStatus=WARN
 log4j.logger.edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.BrowseController=WARN
 log4j.logger.edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.jena.pellet.PelletListener=WARN
 log4j.logger.edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.jena.RDBGraphGenerator=WARN
+
+# Spring as a whole is too chatty to display INFO messages.
+log4j.logger.org.springframework=WARN
+
 # suppress odd warnings from libraries
 log4j.logger.com.hp.hpl.jena.sdb.layout2.LoaderTuplesNodes=FATAL
 log4j.logger.com.hp.hpl.jena.db.impl.PSet_TripleStore_RDB=FATAL