Acadia Insurance, a W. R. Berkley Company, recently announced that it will pay nearly $1.5 million in premium dividends to eligible policyholder members of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine (PLC) Safety Group. Since 1999, Acadia has distributed over $7.6 million in premium dividends to eligible participants of… Read More
The Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of Maine raised $71,547 at the 21st Annual Log A Load for Maine Kids Golf Tournament Sept. 15th at JATO Highlands Golf Course. The tournament, which benefits Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) hospitals in… Read More
Wadsworth Woodlands, Inc., is a multi-generational family owned business that has been in operation for 22 years and has over 44 years of forestry experience. Our foremost objective is to help the landowner achieve your goals of natural resource management through land management plans, and responsible… Read More
At a recent awards banquet held in Waterville, the Maine Wood Products Association (MWPA) presented its Pine Tree Award to Pallet One of Livermore Falls and its Pine Cone Award to Shaw & Tenney of Orono. In addition, the UMaine School… Read More
The American Logger’s Council (ALC) has announced that the Maine-based Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands (TCNF) will lead a national effort to promote the Master Logger Certification program. During the ALC’s Summer Board of Directors Meeting in Opelika, Alabama on July 29,… Read More
Maine’s wood product manufacturers turn out fine furniture, wooden toys, construction lumber, pepper mills, modular homes, golf tees, wooden eggs for the White House Easter egg hunt, indoor and outdoor play sets, baseball bats, decorative objects and moldings, custom cabinets and much more. Read More
ReEnergy Holdings recently celebrated the fifth annual National Bioenergy Day on Oct. 18, 2017. This day is marked across North America to inform citizens about a form of renewable energy with significant local benefits. Bioenergy is electricity and heat generated from… Read More
Kennebec Valley Community College (KVCC) just carved itself a niche in Maine’s construction education space, and the timing is both opportune and critically necessary. In 2014, as the pulp and paper industry came undone and the mills closed one by one, the… Read More
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. (SFI) announced today that the Maine SFI Implementation Committee is the winner of the 2017 SFI Implementation Committee Achievement Award. This award, announced at the SFI Annual Conference, recognizes the exceptional work of the … Read More
2017 marks the 57th anniversary of National Forest Products Week. This annual observance dates back to September 13, 1960, according to the Forest History Society. On that day, Congress passed a joint resolution providing for the establishment of an annual National Forest Products Week to be… Read More
