Master Logger Spotlight – John Conkey & Sons B ELCHERTOWN, MA – John Conkey Sr. lives in a house built by his maternal ancestors in 1860 with wood from the water-powered sawmill they operated more than 150 years ago. His father and grandfather also...
LINCOLN, ME – Brian Souers cut his first load of wood on a 35-acre lot in Grand Falls Plantation in 1980, one man with a chainsaw, the same way many logging companies have started out over the years. Thirty-seven years later, his Master Logger company, Treeline...
FORT KENT, ME – When he was eight years old Sherbey Morris began logging with his father, and since then the only years he hasn’t spent working in the woods were the two he served in the military, and when his service was done he got a homecoming any...
PORTLAND, ME – There’s a grapple skidder hauling a load along the edge of the tree line this morning, a slasher at work on the landing, and before long an empty pulp truck pulls up ready for a load of logs. If it weren’t for the low hum of rush hour traffic...
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