by Web Editor | Sep 14, 2018 | News, News/PR
Maine’s only post-secondary mechanized logging training program will graduate its second class, of eight students, later this week. Friday’s commencement ceremony will take place in the woods southeast of Ashland, where the group spent weeks harvesting...
by Web Editor | Sep 6, 2017 | News, News/PR
Making lumber is a bit like peeling a banana. The peels, in this case 16-foot lengths of bark-clad hemlock, are stacked beside a small sawmill here at Treeline Inc., a diversified forestry operation on the access road to Lincoln. But that waste wood has value. Last...
by Web Editor | Feb 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
Starting in 1988 and occurring at 12-year intervals since then, the Ashland Ranger District in Eastern Montana has suffered through nasty wildland fire seasons. From 1988 to 2012 almost 290,000 acres burned on the Ashland Ranger District — 66 percent of forest lands...
by Web Editor | Mar 1, 2013 | News, News/PR
Long-delayed forest thinning on city-owned land in the Ashland Watershed in Ashland, Oregon is moving forward thanks to grant funding, an improved market for timber, and a neighboring thinning project on U.S. Forest Service land. Back in 2009, the Ashland City Council...
