PLC Events

More than 1300 trained during PLC’s 2024 Safety Trainings!

The PLC has concluded its 2024 Logger, Fleet and CPR Safety Training series and we are pleased to report more than 1,300 loggers and forest truckers from across the Northeast received training at sites in Maine and Vermont! Thank you to all who attended, to our PLC Member companies who hosted the trainings, to the instructors, and of course to the generous sponsors who made it all possible. Looking forward to another successful year in 2025 and stay safe out there!

MLOFT Instructors Needed!

Are you a retired or former logging equipment operator? The PLC’s Mechanized Logging Operations and Forest Trucking (MLOFT) Program is looking for experienced operators to teach hands-on equipment operations this summer in Fairfield, ME. This will be one-on-one instruction in the woods, training the next generation of loggers. If you’re looking for a seasonal opportunity this summer, or recently retired, we offer competitive wages and benefits, including travel costs. MLOFT is looking for both buncher and processor operators and skilled crane and delimber operators. For details, please call or text Donald Burr at (207) 356-1541.

Welcome New Supporting Member!

Supporting Member

Coastal Auto Parts of Ellsworth, ME joined the PLC as a new Preferred Supporting Member in May, 2024. Coastal Auto Parts has stores as far east as Machias, as far north as Caribou, and south as Auburn. Coastal Auto Parts has stores dotting the 95 Highway and along coastal Route One. From a single store in 1981, today Coastal Auto Parts has grown to 29 stores and more than 270 employees. The company has transitioned to the next generation by selling the company to their four children who work together to operate it. The future plans of the company are to continue store growth, and explore spinning niche segments of the auto parts business, into full-fledged businesses of their own. For more information contact Bruce MacDonald at (207) 240-3157 or brucemacdonald@capnapa.com

Logging News

The Logger’s Voice – Spring 2024 Edition

Safety & Educational Resources

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month

For more information:

https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/vector-borne/lyme/month/index.shtml

Maine News

Biomass Thermal Energy Council Rising

Three Maine companies receive $1.6 million in federal grants from US Forest Service

Lumbra Hardwoods Inc. Regognized as Outstanding Sawmill by NELA

Maine Department of Labor Publishes Paid Family Medical Leave Rules for Public Comment

Never forget, all roads are private in the North Maine Woods – Bangor Daily News

Green Jobs Fair is coming back – Piscataquis Observer

How Wall Street drove the Maine paper industry’s collapse – Bangor Daily News

Vermont News

Group Files Lawsuit to Challenge Logging in White Mountain National Forest

Chittenden County forester taps into new path – VTDigger

Vermont launches interactive invasive pest map – Addison Independent

Member Benefits

PLC Online Store

Looking for great PLC items and apparel? Gifts? First Aid packs, safety items and more? You will find them at the new PLC Online Store on our web site. Ordering is easy.