The public is invited to tour an active sustainable timber harvest demonstration at Kennebec Land Trust’s Oak Hill property on September 11, 2023 on the Norton Road in Fayette. Maine forester Harold Burnett of Two Trees Forestry will review the rationale for and the expectations of the selective harvest on […]
Surprises abound in the Maine woods. Some times it makes us wonder what happened. Other times, we just drink in an unusual sight.
Photo of Swallowwort by Chris Evans, Illinois Wildlife Action Plan, Bugwood.org Maggie Mansfield Last spring the Maine Forest Service launched a program aimed at tackling invasive plants in woodlots across the state, and particularly here in central and coastal Maine. I joined 40 foresters and natural resource professionals for a […]
Harold Burnett The rippling effect of the Jay pulpmill explosion in April 2020 set the tone for wood sales throughout most of this past year, though as we progress toward winter, we are seeing some relief on the pulpwood side and a gratifyingly eager, if not anxious, group of pine […]
Androscoggin Land Trust was naturally thrilled when a wildlife lover bequeathed 102 acres of woods and field to the land trust in 2007. But over time, the responsibility of honoring the wishes of the late Katherine Breton began to weigh on trust members. Her house needed repairs to become rentable, […]
I won’t recount how different 2020 has been from other years, but here at Two Trees, changes have also occurred. In January Maggie Mansfield joined our team and in August Jon Doty moved on. Maggie is a recent UMaine forestry graduate, with an undergraduate degree from College of the Atlantic, […]
On April 15, 2020 the wood markets in Maine changed significantly. One of the digester’s in the pulpmill in Jay exploded, sending a plume of wood chips, steam, machinery, and chemicals sky-high. Shortly after that all splattered to the ground, with no loss of life fortunately, the mill stopped buying […]
This year has included quite considerable work on town-owned lands, with a timber sale recently concluded on Litchfield’s Smithfield Plantation, management plans updated for Readfield’s Town Farm and Forest and Monmouth’s Whittier Woods, a recreational trail feasibility study prepared for Chelsea’s Kennebec River property, and a timber sale on Manchester’s […]
In early June, as some of you may know I, Harold, began working two days a week for the Maine Woodland Owners, a state-wide landowner advocacy organization and land trust. Of course, from a business standpoint, selling 100 days a year to one landowner provides a solid foundation for Two […]
I’ve always been told that if one grows quality trees, the market will reward such efforts. However over the last few years I’ve been challenged by the pine log market’s seeming variance from this assumed norm, with 16’ pine logs often in greater demand than large knot-free logs. An interesting […]