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Master Logger in the Rhode Island Woods
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...
Cutting Edge – Spring 2020
A Visit from Down Under
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...
Master Logger Officials Detail Audit Process
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....
Wood Supply Research Institute (WSRI) completes national study on Certified Master Logger Programs
HEMPHILL, TX – The nonprofit Wood Supply Research Institute (WSRI) has completed a six-month national study on the value of Certified Master Logger Programs, finding they have real worth to loggers and forest industry stakeholders, but face challenges achieving...
Master Logger company Gerard Poulin & Sons
READFIELD, ME - Master Logger company Gerard Poulin & Sons has rolled with the times over the decades, and where they are now is literally a long way from where they were only a few years ago. For three decades beginning in 1980, the family logging business worked...
Master Logger Spotlight – John Conkey & Sons
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...
Fall 2017 – Cutting Edge
TCNEF-Cutting Edge Fall 2017
Master Logger Spotlight – Treeline Inc.
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,...
Master Logger Spotlight – Morris Logging Inc.
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 logger in frozen...