by Web Editor | Nov 7, 2018 | News, News/PR
This summer, California experienced its largest fire in state history—the latest disaster in a growing trend towards hotter, larger, and more destructive fires. Without urgent action, wildfires will be even deadlier and costlier in years to come. The Forest Resilience...
by Web Editor | Nov 2, 2018 | News, News/PR
From: Timber Harvesting Editors Hurricane Michael made landfall October 10 near Mexico Beach, Fla., then moved on across parts of Alabama and into Georgia, the Carolinas and southeastern Virginia. Packing 155 MPH sustained winds, Michael came in just a mile per hour...
by Web Editor | Oct 31, 2018 | News, News/PR
New York State hosted the first-ever Forestry and Wood Products Summit Thursday in Binghamton. At the Broome County Regional Farmers Market, state and local officials met with key players in the forestry industry to discuss ways to boost the state’s forest and...
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...