Japan officials tour logging operations
A group of Japanese logging officials are visiting the state this week to tour several forest products operations and learn more about Maine's logger certification program.
Six members of Japan's Association of Evolving Forestry in Himuka and a university professor will spend three days in Maine studying the Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands' Master Logger Certification Program, according to the Bangor Daily News. The program has helped 88 state logging contractors meet environmental stewardship and workplace safety standards in its 11-year existence. Maine logging operations that seek to earn master certification must meet guidelines in a number of areas, including harvest planning, water quality protection and forest ecosystem sustainability. The Japanese officials will use Maine's program as a model for establishing a master logging program in their home region, according to the paper.
The group is expected to visit a logging operation in Brunswick today, and then tour a wood yard in Milo with Madden Timberlands Inc. and visit Treeline Inc. in Lincoln on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the group will visit Pleasant River Lumber's sawmill in Dover-Foxcroft and the Maine Woods Pellet mill in Athens.
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