Maine Forestry Museum celebrates forestry and logging, inducts new members to Forestry Hall of Fame

RANGELEY – On Route 16 between Rangeley and Stratton is the Maine Forestry Museum, dedicated to the history and current practices of one of Maine’s largest industries: forestry. This weekend the museum is bustling with activity for the 42nd Annual Logging Festival. Friday morning the festival kicked off with the first ever Working Forest Tour, hosted by Seven Islands Land Company. Guests were invited on a guided tour of an active logging operation on land owned by the Pingree Family and managed by Seven Islands. Prior to the tour, Resource Manager Nathan Kay outlined a number of goals and principlesRead More