Northeast Master Logger Certification Expansion Effort

AUGUSTA, ME – The Northeast Master Logger Certification Program has launched an effort to expand the ranks of Master Loggers in the region through promotion and outreach efforts including in states where numbers of Master Loggers are currently low.

The effort is happening at the same time as an American Loggers Council (ALC) push to reinvigorate and expand the Master Logger brand nationally.

Northeast Master Logger Certification is using targeted mailings to potential Master Loggers and organizations representing loggers or whose membership includes large numbers of loggers to spread awareness of the program and its benefits.

The organization is also reaching out to key people and organizations in the Northeast to promote the program.

Advertising in key publications including logging magazines and newsletters reaching large more loggers to seek certification and more landowners to choose Master Loggers for harvests. The program is also stepping up visibility at events for loggers and landowners as well as media releases to increase awareness.

Expansion efforts are being aided by an L.L. Bean grant to support Master Logger outreach and communications efforts to Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York.

L.L. Bean’s support is based on fostering the kind of responsible timber harvesting and forest management in the Northeast that will encourage landowners to keep their lands undeveloped and open to the public.

There are currently 110 Master Loggers in the Northeast.

If you know of any logger who may be interested in certification, please have them contact:

Ted Wright, Executive Director of the Northeast Master Logger Certification Program at 207 532 8721