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WILMINGTON, NY - The Northeast Master Logger Certification Program, a program of the Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands, will offer a free, hands-on workshop Wednesday, Nov. 17 designed for professional logging contractors and others who deal with timber harvests...

BANGOR, ME - The Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands (TCNF) held it’s 2021 Annual Meeting on Friday, Oct. 29, presenting awards and welcoming new loggers to the Northeast Master Logger Certification Program, which TCNF administers. The event at the Cross Insurance...

The Northeast Master Logger Certification Program, a program of the Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands, held three Hands-On Stream Crossing Workshops in Maine and Vermont in May, attended by more than 140 employees of Master Logger companies and students from...

Hands on Stream Crossing Workshops and more in the "Cutting Edge" - TCNEF-Cutting Edge-Spring-2021 pdf

The Northeast Master Logger program will host new Hands-on Stream Crossing Workshops in 2021 - These trainings are Free for Master Loggers and their employees Randolph, Vermont – May 20, 2021West Paris, Maine (Southern Maine) – May 25, 2021Island Falls, Maine...

RIFCO President Bill Fortune stands in front of the newly installed slash wall within the 3-acre habitat clearing at the Merriman Demonstration Woodlot in Foster, being installed by Master Logger Certified Bob Thurber of Jerimoth Forestry.As discussed in last month's...

David Bennett spent much of this spring traveling across the world to evaluate the risks and benefits of forest contractor certification programs with an eye toward adapting the best practices he observed to strengthen forest management and the logging industry in his...

Offering a true alternative to other programs, the American Loggers Council endorsed Master Logger Certification Program (ALC/MLC) is a true third-party certification for logging contractors. It involveson-the-ground assessment of a logging contractor’s activities....