The Professional Logging Contractors of Maine and Northern Maine Community College applauded the announcement that $1 million in dedicated federal funding has been secured to expand the Mechanized Logging Operations Program in 2023 and 2024 and add Commercial Driver’s License training to the program to train the next generation of timber haulers.
Recruiting is now underway for students in the sixth cohort of the Mechanized Logging Operations Program, which is beginning its next 12-week class June 27 in the woods northeast of Old Town.
Twelve graduates of Maine’s only college training program for operators of mechanized logging equipment were recognized Thursday, Sept. 16, at an outdoor, socially distanced ceremony held at the site where they spent weeks harvesting timber using sophisticated state-of-the-art machines like those they will encounter in the logging industry.
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