by Web Editor | Mar 28, 2016 | News, News/PR
The flooring plant and sawmill at Kennebec Lumber Co. are bustling with activity on a weekday morning, as logs get measured and sliced into lumber and the boards are graded, stacked and prepared for shipping. Meanwhile, just up the road, construction is nearing...
by Web Editor | Mar 18, 2016 | News, News/PR
Maine forestland owners are better positioned to cope with the next spruce budworm outbreak but will have to adapt their harvesting and marketing practices to deal with a pest that has already defoliated 15 million acres in Canada. Those are some of the conclusions of...
by Web Editor | Jan 13, 2016 | News, News/PR
The Appalachian Mountain Club has been awarded the Forest Stewardship Council’s seal of approval for its management of 70,000 acres of Maine wilderness in Piscataquis County. A senior staff scientist with AMC, David Publicover, describes the certification as the...
by Web Editor | Dec 29, 2015 | News
The Professional Logging Contractors of Maine is deeply concerned that the campaign to create a national park in northern Maine has changed course a bit in the last few months and there is now an effort underway to convince President Obama to designate a national...
by Web Editor | Dec 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
With a couple clicks on his computer, Robert G. Wagner finds the page he’s looking for and cues up a video loop. On a weather map, a huge snowstorm builds, blowing across the St. Lawrence River from Quebec into New Brunswick. Except, it’s not a snowstorm. The weather...
