Maine

Loss of Digester at the Androscoggin Mill Impacts Timber Industry

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Land Report Editors

An explosion inside a digester – where wood chips, water, and chemicals are mixed to make paper – tore apart a Pixelle Specialty Solutions’ mill in Jay, Maine. Until the April 15 blast, the mill processed some 1.5 million tons…

Tagged with: Androscoggin Mill, explosion, Jay, Maine, mill, Pixelle Specialty Solutions’
Posted in Feature, Maine, News Desk, Northeast, Timber

Pingree Heirs: 2018 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Land Report Editors

No. 11 Pingree Heirs 830,000 acres (up 125,000 acres) Pingree lands are consolidated in Maine and owned by fifth-, sixth-, and seventh generation descendants of David Pingree (1795—1863). Known as the Merchant Prince of Salem, Pingree’s nineteenth-century empire ultimately exceeded…

Vistas: Maine’s Chadbourne Tree Farms

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Land Report Editors

Selected from what is undeniably one the finest White pine ownerships in the Northeast, Chadbourne Tree Farms is a 2,470-acre portfolio located in Western Maine near Bethel. The property consists of six tracts ranging in size from 111 to 687…

Foreign Investors Own Major Stake in Maine

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Eric OKeefe

Foreign investors own an interest in 21.2 million acres of U.S. forest and farmland, an amount that equates to just under 1 percent of all the land in the U.S. Every one of the 50 states as well as Puerto…

Maine Goes Public on 10 Million Acres

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

The last and largest contiguous block of forestland east of the Mississippi – more than 10 million acres – is up for grabs … at least as far as public policy goes. Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission is now holding public…

Tagged with: Maine, public policy, Timber, timber companies
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Feature, News Desk, Northeast, Regional News