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 […]
A recent timber harvest in Augusta presented Two Trees Forestry with a double challenge – harvesting in the middle of Augusta on a highly visible property and applying the appropriate silviculture in two different stands of white pine. The 86-acre Stone Street property, borders the Fairview and Cony Street neighborhoods, […]
For most of 2016 I helped author a document identifying ways that the land trust and non-profit community could help conserve Maine’s unique places, working forests, and rural communities. Funding was provided by the Elmina B Sewall Foundation and below is a summary of that effort, though the full report […]