by Web Editor | Oct 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Acadia Insurance, a W. R. Berkley company, recently announced that it will pay more than $1.4 million in premium dividends to eligible policyholder members of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine Safety Group. Since 1999, Acadia has distributed over $9...
by Web Editor | Sep 14, 2018 | News, News/PR
Maine’s only post-secondary mechanized logging training program will graduate its second class, of eight students, later this week. Friday’s commencement ceremony will take place in the woods southeast of Ashland, where the group spent weeks harvesting...
by Web Editor | Sep 10, 2018 | News, News/PR
An explosive wildfire has nearly tripled in size overnight in Northern California and prompted closure of a major freeway, just weeks after a nearby blaze that left neighborhoods in ruins and killed eight people, officials said Thursday. The fire that erupted...
by Web Editor | Sep 7, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has awarded its first Good Neighbor Authority restoration timber harvest sale. Colville-based Vaagen Brothers Timber Company was the successful bidder Tuesday for a project that will reduce hazardous timber...
by Web Editor | Aug 29, 2018 | News, News/PR
Faced with the worst summer fire season in 10 years, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing broad new changes to California’s logging rules that would allow landowners to cut larger trees and build temporary roads without obtaining a permit as a way to thin more forests across...
by Web Editor | Aug 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) is an ongoing collaborative, landscape-scale initiative designed to restore 2.4 million acres of fire-adapted ecosystems in the Apache-Sitgreaves, Tonto, Coconino, and Kaibab National Forests. Reducing destructive...
