The timber industry in Maine is a robust network of businesses that specialize in the harvesting, processing, and distribution of timber. These companies, which range from large-scale forest resource management firms to smaller lumber solutions providers, handle everything from timber operations and commercial management, to providing various timber and lumber products. The evolving development of sustainable practices proceeded by these companies ensures a promising future for the industry. The focus in catering to diverse client needs results in a wide array of offered services, making it an integral part of Maine's economy.


Top 25 timber harvesting companies in Maine

1. Prentiss & Carlisle

Prentiss & Carlisle is a company that specializes in forest resource management and timberland services. They offer commercial forest management, timber operations, real estate and valuation services, and technical forestry services. With nearly a century of experience, they aim to meet the diverse needs and objectives of their clients through effective and responsible forest resource and timberland management.


2. Kennebec Lumber Company

Kennebec Lumber is a hardwood and softwood lumber company based in Wentworth, New Hampshire. They provide sustainable lumber solutions and offer a wide variety of products, including hardwood and softwood lumber, hardwood flooring, and crane mats. Their facilities are equipped with the latest technology to optimize lumber solutions. Kennebec Lumber is committed to quality and exceeding customer expectations.


3. Stratton Lumber/trg INC

Timber Resource Group (TRG) is a wood procurement company that purchases softwood and hardwood logs, primarily for its client sawmills, and markets excess logs to numerous mills throughout the Northeastern United States, Canada, and beyond.


4. Pleasant River Lumber

Pleasant River Lumber Co. is a company that produces American-made lumber. They work with top-notch local log suppliers and have log yards across the state of Maine. With five mills processing dimensional spruce and eastern white pine board, they can fill every order while keeping the work in the USA.


5. William A. Day, Jr. & Sons, Inc.

William A. Day Logging Co. is a family-owned and operated Maine Logging company providing high-quality land management, logging, and wood harvesting services. They specialize in custom tree removals, commercial timber harvesting, and chipping services while maintaining their logging traditions of promoting sustainable wood harvesting.


6. N C Hunt INC

N.C. Hunt Lumber is a family-owned company that specializes in sawmill production, timber, and building materials. They offer custom production for any project, big or small, including the sale of lumber, mulch, soils, hardscapes, and marine supplies. With retail locations in Jefferson and Damariscotta, ME, they pride themselves on providing high-quality products at competitive prices.


7. RC McLucas Trucking

RC McLucas Trucking is a family-owned company that specializes in forestry, logging, chipping, and firewood delivery services. The company harvests small acreage to large parcels of land in Maine and New Hampshire, manages over 1000 acres of their properties, and brokers wood for other logging professionals under wood contracts. RC McLucas Trucking owns five woods crews, and uses its fleet of 21 trucks to deliver green or seasoned firewood to private homeowners round-the-year.


8. Wadsworth Woodlands, Inc.

Wadsworth Woodlands has always been committed to harvesting timber in an environmentally friendly manner. Wadsworth Woodlands provides you, the landowner, with accurate records of mill receipts for every load of forest products delivered to the different sawmills from your lot. We pay once a week for timber that was harvested the previous weeks from your property. Also, we protect the landowner by using fully insured contractors. Here is a list of services that we provide when we harvest your woodlot.


9. Dirigo Timberland Management

Dirigo Timberlands is unique because we provide a complete package from planning to implementation. Let our experienced professionals guide your forestland management every step of the way. We put our abundant resources and connections throughout the industry to work for you and your property.


10. Two Trees Forestry

Two Trees Forestry, in Winthrop, Maine, is a Forest Stewardship Council certified consulting firm. Our consultant foresters assist with forest management planning, timber harvesting, timber appraising, and timber damage and theft assessment.


11. Treeline, Inc.

Treeline, Inc. is a diversified company with its core business rooted in Maine's forest product industry. It offers forest management, recreational properties, road & site construction, transportation services, wood products, wood purchasing, and equipment for sale.


12. Maine Custom Woodlands LLC

Maine Custom Woodlands is a full-service timber harvesting, land management, and excavation company established in 1993.


13. GCA Logging

  • Website: gcalogging.com
  • Headquarters: Avon, Maine, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

GCA Logging, Inc. is a Maine-based, family owned logging business that provides public and private landowners with forestry services across the State of Maine. Founded in 1986 by owners Greg Adams and Andrea Adams, GCA Logging, Inc. is committed to responsible stewardship of Maine's forests. Based out of Avon, Maine, GCA uses primarily late-model equipment for timber harvesting. Greg Adams was the 2014 winner of the CLP Outstanding Logger Award in the Contractor/Supervisor category. He is pictured here (center) with CLP Director Mike St. Peter (right) and Huber Resources representative Kenny Ferguson (left).


14. Maine Forest Products

Staff contacts Since 1961, the Maine Forest Products Council has been the voice of Maine's forest economy. The MFPC represents the diverse needs of Maine's forest products community. Our members are landowners, loggers, truckers, paper mills, tree farmers, foresters and lumber processors, but they are also bankers, lawyers and insurance executives. We feel we represent anyone who has an interest in seeing the Maine woods remain a viable, sustainable resource. We serve our community by gathering information, bringing groups together to discuss concerns, hosting events, conducting tours and helping people find common ground. We represent our members at the Maine Legislature, but also across the state, in Washington D.C. and across the nation.


15. Master Logger Certification

by Master Logger | Jun 21, 2021 | Uncategorized The Northeast Master Logger Certification Program, a program of the Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands, held three Hands-On Stream Crossing Workshops in Maine and Vermont in May, attended by more than 140 employees of Master Logger companies and students from... by Master Logger | May 19, 2021 | Uncategorized by Master Logger | May 19, 2021 | Uncategorized The Northeast Master Logger program will host new Hands-on Stream Crossing Workshops in 2021 - These trainings are Free for Master Loggers and their employees Randolph, Vermont May 20, 2021West Paris, Maine (Southern Maine) May 25, 2021Island Falls, Maine...


16. Conserve Northeast Forestlands

  • Website: tcnef.org
  • Headquarters: Augusta, Maine, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

The Forest Stewardship Council, the world's most trusted forest certification, is an independent nonprofit organization that promotes environmentally sound, socially beneficial, and economically prosperous management of forests. FSC was created in 1993 to set the standards by which forests are certified, offering assurance to consumers and businesses that the wood products they buy originate from well-managed forests.


17. FOR/Maine

Forest Opportunity Roadmap / MAINE Strong forests. Strong economy. Strong communities. Forest Opportunity Roadmap / Maine (FOR/Maine) is a unique cross-sector collaboration between industry, communities, government, education, and non-profits, which have come together to realize the next generation of Maine’s great forest economy. The coalition was created with support from the U.S. Economic Development Agency and U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. FOR/Maine is convening scores of industry, community, research, investment and government stakeholders to conduct coordinated research, formulate strategy, and harness extensive global expertise as part of a long-term, U.S. Economic Development Administration-backed effort to strengthen Maine’s $8.5-billion, 33,000-job forest economy and position the state as a leader in emerging global forest product markets. Among the reports FOR/Maine will release by year’s end are: - A global market analysis aimed at identifying current and emerging global demand for forest products, and the markets where Maine is likely to be most competitive. This will also enable FOR Maine to identify the necessary policy and industry changes to keep Maine forest products competitive. - A wood supply analysisaimed at determining Maine’s current and potential wood supply and how it can meet global demands. - A Forest Economy Strategic Plan that will identify the global forest products markets Maine can best compete in and the actions necessary to create a more diverse forest economy and increase our economic output. FOR/Maine is also working closely with leadership in forest communities, including the six towns in Maine that have had mills close in recent years. The coalition is actively involved in efforts to diversify economic opportunities for these communities, supporting efforts to redevelop mill sites, provide more resources for brownfield cleanup and improve broadband access in rural areas.


18. Maine TREE Foundation

Maine Tree Farm promotes the sustainable use of Maine's forests and the ecological, economic, and social health of the forest community. They provide education programs and advocate for certified logging.


19. Maine Environmental Policy Institute

  • Website: meepi.org
  • Headquarters: Hallowell, Maine, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

The mission of the Maine Environmental Policy Institute (MEPI) is to help Mainers understand the importance of healthy ecosystems to their families and communities. The Institute, an independent nonprofit organization based in Hallowell, Maine, is dedicated to researching environmental challenges facing the state and reporting this research to policy makers and the public. MEPI has received the Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence and the Sierra Club's Environmental Media Award. MEPI projects include:


20. W.C. Tripp Forest Products

As a third generation logging contractor W.C. Tripp Forest Products has the experience, history, and knowledge to maximize your timber harvest with the least waste. Our methods will leave your forest healthier and actively regenerating to produce another harvest in years to come. We work within our own staff as well as with other logging and forestry professionals to develop the best plans for timber harvesting and biomass production.


21. Professional Logging Contractors of Maine

Professional Logging Contractors of Maine is Maine's only trade organization that gives independent logging contractors a voice in the rapidly changing forest industry. They offer legislative advocacy, achievements, safety training, and master logger certification.


22. Seven Islands Land Company

Seven Islands Land Company is a company that focuses on conservation, sustainability, and working forests. They offer recreational leases, sporting camps, and forest products while maintaining a land ethic and providing public access to their forests.


23. Madden Timberlands INC

Madden Timberlands, Inc. is a forestry company offering professional forestry and trucking services. They help forest owners manage, harvest and sell their timber.


24. Maine Forestry

  • Website: maineforestry.net
  • Headquarters: Eagle Lake, Maine, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

This website is your free forest information source for forest law, management, wildlife, pruning, timber harvesting, taxes, forestry news, and much more.


25. Maine Forest Service

Maine Forest Service is a bureau of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry which provides forest and wildfire management services.


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