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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...
Master Logger Spotlight – Kimball Logging & Firewood
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 beyond the...
Master Logger Spotlight – Rocky Bunnell Logging
Master Logger Spotlight - Rocky Bunnell Logging MONROE, NH - When Rocky Bunnell got out of the Air Force in 1973 he considered different careers, but his father Bill Bunnell was trucking wood and he decided to first help him out. As is often the case in the woods...
Master Logger Spotlight – JBR Logging Inc.
Master Logger Spotlight - JBR Logging Inc. ASHLAND, MAINE – Master Logger Jeff Hummel started his business, JBR Logging Inc., in June of 2008 with a John Deere forwarder and one employee, working double shifts. Jeff, who goes by J.D., didn’t grow up in a logging...
Harvest Tour with a Master Logger
By Jeanne Siviski Posted July 12, 2016, at 10:37 a.m. Wednesday, July 13, 2016 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Location: Active harvest on a woodlot, Storer Mountain Rd., Waldoboro, ME For more information: 207-542-9910; swoam.org Join Master Logger Gavin Mclain, of CTL Land...