Designing Maine

TOUR DEPARTS FROM PORTLAND ON THURSDAY FOR TWO DAYS IN RURAL MAINE INCLUDING ONE NIGHT AT THE NEW ENGLAND OUTDOOR CENTER.

You will visit:

• A timber harvest on an 1,800 acre woodland in New Gloucester with forester, Jack Wadsworth 
• Hancock Lumber Mill in Casco with Kevin Hancock 
• Longfellows Cedar Shingles in Windsor      
• Bradley Public Reserved Lands with Maine State Forester, Terri Coolong
• Robbins White Pine Plantation and Lumber Company with Jim Robbins   
• A.E. Sampson Flooring in Warren
• Newly designed Nature Conservancy offices in Brunswick with                     Kate Dempsey and Ethan Bessey

Spend the evening at Twin Pines:

• Enjoy the New England Outdoor Center
• Dinner and social hour with colleagues
• Evening discussion with Lloyd Irland, The Irland Group, and Ken Laustsen, Maine Forest Service Biometrician: forestland conservation, sustainable forestry, and   wood markets

Cost per participant includes transportation, lodging, social hour, meals. 

Priority registration for                                                                                     Maine-based designers and builders until July 5, $225.*
July 6, registration opens for designers and builders from other locales, $275.
*Price increases to $275 for all participants after July 5. Registration limited to 20 participants.

Bus departs from Portland at 7:30 a.m Thursday and returns at 6:00 p.m. Friday.

TOUR REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT

For more information please contact:
Kirsten at 207-377-2848

Sponsors: Local Wood WORKS and Maine Tree Foundation with generous support from the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation