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 | Jun 11, 2018 | News, News/PR
Digital technology might not be the first thing you think of when thinking about the logging and timber industry, but one Savannah entrepreneur hopes to changes that. “We’re hoping to be a disrupter of the business,” said Dean McCraw of Phloem, a mobile app for the...
by Web Editor | May 10, 2018 | News, News/PR
Fourth-generation logger Loren German knew since he was a young boy that he wanted to work in the woods. But he had one piece of advice for a gaggle of third-graders who had gathered around his feller-buncher to learn how it works. “Learn computers,” he told the class...
by Web Editor | Mar 7, 2018 | Editor's Blog
Written by Dan Shell Twenty-something Millennial generation logging equipment operators from Miller Timber Services in Philomath, Ore. told their story at Oregon Logging Conference in Eugene, Ore. on Feb. 22-24. More than 400 local Oregon high school students attended...
