TRG News

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                                                

Upgrades & Other News

• Moose River Lumber sawmill has completed a couple major upgrade this summer/fall 2025 - including a new in-feed which separates and orientates the logs for both our saw lines: small log side - Hew Saw and also our large log side. Also completed in September is our brand new truck weight scales.
• Stratton Lumber has increased production and is now on 2 shifts at the sawmill. We hosted the Maine Tree Foundation Teachers Tour at Stratton this summer, where Teachers from all over Maine visited the sawmill, planer mill & dry kilns and learned how to identify spruce & fir and log scale to determine the board feet in each log.

The spruce/fir dimensional lumber market continues to be a challenge and we are hoping for an uptick later on in the year 2026 when the weather warms up and more construction is taking place, but for the meantime it is pretty flat.

TRG Personnel

• Cody Lachance is TRG's new General Manager as of January 2026 and will be overseeing all Log Procurement for Stratton Lumber, Moose River Lumber and Fontaine Inc. in the United States, working closely with Allan. Cody is a licensed Maine Forester with 10+ year's of experience in the forest products industry with a large landowner and a pulp & paper facility in Maine.
• We are pleased to welcome Joel Reed back to the Company as a Log Buyer in Maine and Mill Residual Sales. Joel worked for us from 1996-2002. He is buying spruce & fir into the 3 sawmills and Maine Log yards and handling mill residual sales (chips, sawdust, shavings, bark) out of Stratton Lumber Inc. & Moose River Lumber. Joel started his new position with TRG in November 2025.
• We are pleased to announce Taylor Reed was hired as a Log Buyer covering Maine in June 2025. Taylor is buying spruce & fir directly into our Stratton Lumber & Moose River Lumber sawmills as well as into our Maine Log Yards

New Log Yards - buying spruce and fir

• Danby, VT - 319 Route 7; buying spruce/fir sawlogs by log scale - Contact John Rounds
• Royalton, VT - right off Exit #3 of I-89; buying spruce & fir sawlogs by log scale - 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.