A 12-week certification program is helping train future loggers, giving them the skills they need to go right into jobs. FILE PHOTO / COURTESY, PROFESSIONAL LOGGING CONTRACTORS OF MAINE Another 10 ...

FAIRFIELD, Maine (WABI) - Nine students graduated the Mechanized Logging Operations and Forest Trucking (MLOFT) Program. While it’s administered by Northern Maine Community College, the tuition free ...

Another dozen future members of Maine's logging industry are training this summer in a joint program of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine and Northern Maine Community College. The ...

HINCKLEY, Maine (WABI) - Twenty weeks of learning the ropes in logging and forest trucking came to a close for 15 graduates at Kennebec Valley Community College. on Thursday. This is the ninth year of ...

City commissioners today will consider a proposal to use mechanized logging to remove every last dead or dying ponderosa pine on 27 acres off Lime Kiln Road, and they plan to sell salvageable pulp ...

The onward march of the pine bark beetle, which has chewed through several million acres of Western forests, is causing Helena officials to retool their efforts to reduce wildfire danger in the city’s ...