TRG News
Sawmills - Log/Treelength Unloading Hours
Stratton Lumber Monday's 5:30 am (straight thru 24 hours) until Friday's at noon; Self-unloaders can still unload during closed hours
Moose River Lumber Monday - Thursday 5am - 4 pm; Fridays 5am - noon; Self-unloaders can still unload during closed hours
Fontaine Inc. Monday - Thursday 6am - 11 pm; Fridays 6am - 3 pm
News from Maine Forest Products Council - Annual Meeting - Sep. 2026
Congratulations to Allan Ryder, President of Timber Resource Group,
on receiving the Maine Forest Products Council's prestigious 2026 Albert D. Nutting Award.
This award recognizes Ryder’s significant contributions over the last 40 years to Maine's forest industry. Since 1998, Allan has been with Timber Resource Group, working his way through the ranks from forester to President.
Having worked alongside Allan for a number of years now, first as a member of MFPC's Executive Committee and then as a member of our Board of Directors, I can attest that whenever anyone needs help, Allan is always the first to volunteer. He has served our industry and his peers in countless ways during his career including with MFPC and the Northeast Loggers Association.
While Allan has left us in good hands with Cody Lachance, MFPC will always be grateful to him for the decades of leadership and support that he has provided. Congratulations again to Allan, and we wish him well in his upcoming retirement.
on receiving the Maine Forest Products Council's prestigious 2026 Albert D. Nutting Award.
This award recognizes Ryder’s significant contributions over the last 40 years to Maine's forest industry. Since 1998, Allan has been with Timber Resource Group, working his way through the ranks from forester to President.
Having worked alongside Allan for a number of years now, first as a member of MFPC's Executive Committee and then as a member of our Board of Directors, I can attest that whenever anyone needs help, Allan is always the first to volunteer. He has served our industry and his peers in countless ways during his career including with MFPC and the Northeast Loggers Association.
While Allan has left us in good hands with Cody Lachance, MFPC will always be grateful to him for the decades of leadership and support that he has provided. Congratulations again to Allan, and we wish him well in his upcoming retirement.
Foster Tech Students visit Stratton Lumber in April
A group of students from Foster Career & Technical Center in Farmington, Maine visited Stratton Lumber to tour the sawmill, planer mill, dry kilns and log yard.
Thay had 3 groups of students: Forestry, Mechanical and Electrical.
Here are a few pictures of the Forestry group getting a lesson on species identification and log scaling led by Taylor Reed, TRG Log Buyer and Jesslyn Sillanpaa, Stratton Lumber Log Scaler.
Upgrades & Other News
- Moose River Lumber sawmill has increased production as of August 2026 and now sawing two shifts.
The spruce/fir dimensional lumber market continues to be a challenge and we are hoping for an uptick later on in the year 2026
New Log Yards - buying spruce and fir
- Danby, VT - 319 Route 7; buying spruce/fir sawlogs by log scale - operated by Pitts Logging - Contact John Rounds
- Royalton, VT - right off Exit #3 of I-89; buying spruce & fir sawlogs by log scale - operated by Rodney Rainville - Contact John Rounds
We buy mixed loads of spruce/fir and hardwood sawlogs, veneer logs and pallet logs in our Hardwick and East Burke Vermont Log Yards.
All other Log Yards in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont & New York we buy spruce & fir only.
- In our Maine Log Yards & Pittsburg, NH yard we buy only spruce & fir on weight, both logs & treelength.
- The rest of our Log Yards in NH, VT & NY we buy spruce & fir logs on stick scale
