2023
January 25, 2023
Jim Hourdequin at the Yale Forest Forum: “You Get What You Pay For II: A Timberland Investor’s Evolving Perspective on Forest Carbon Offsets”
2022
November 15, 2022
Lyme Sells Property Along Clarion River to Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
On October 16, 2022, affiliates of Lyme Timber sold a 140-acre property located along the Clarion River in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC). The addition of this property to the 13,000 acres WPC has protected along the Clarion River since the 1970s will help protect the riparian area and water quality of the Clarion River stream, conserve forest resources, and provide for public recreation. Read more
October 6, 2022
Lyme Timber Company Introduces Winch Assist Harvesting in PA
The equipment, a 2022 EMS Tractionline Winch Assist System, is the latest technology to further modernize the region’s forestry industry. The system includes specialized winches that maintain constant tension on cables attached to a machine that fells timber on steep slopes. The system reduces ground pressure, erosion and the need for dangerous hand felling on these same slopes. Read more
September 29, 2022
Jim Hourdequin Testifies Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
The Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act have provided billions for wildfire risk reduction, including ambitious targets for thinning overstocked federal lands. To do this work, we will need to mobilize the logging industry, deploy mechanical thinning systems at an unprecedented scale, and utilize public-private partnerships to develop the logging workforce of the future. Read more
September 13, 2022
Ottawa National Forest and Trust for Public Land secure 1,200 acres along West Branch of Ontonagon River
“This segment was critical to them. They’ve been able to use it because the owner, Lyme Timber the prior owner, was nice enough to let them use it, but now it’s permanent. It’s a permanent connection. They can hike through and be comfortable it will be there for their kids and their kids, kids,” said Schmidt. Read more
March 28, 2022
DNR secures easements for more than 100 miles of recreational trail in Baraga and Marquette counties
In partnership with Lyme Great Lakes Timberlands, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has purchased nearly 103 miles of primarily snowmobile trail easements in Baraga and Marquette counties. Read more
March 28, 2022
New Biking Trails Proposed for Sterling Run
Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is developing 20-30 miles of new biking trails in Cameron County, Pennsylvania, of which at least 10 miles are planned on Sterling Run, the conservation and public access easement donated to the state by The Lyme Timber Company as part of a 2018
financing package with PENNVEST. Read more
March 17, 2022
Bloomberg Green Reports on Lyme Timber’s Forest Carbon Offset Strategies
We are pleased that Bloomberg is reporting on the challenges and opportunities facing the market for forest carbon offsets. Read more
January 31, 2022
Affiliates of The Lyme Timber Company Sell Interests in Coastal California Timberlands
Funds sponsored by The Lyme Timber Company LLC have sold their interests in 111,967 acres of coastal California timberlands, along with the management company established to manage the property to Redwood Timber Company LLC. Read more
January 31, 2022
Mill Investment at Bradford Forest Creates Jobs
The new owners of Bradford Forest, The Lyme Timber Company and the Rossi Group, have
returned the mill to full 5-day-per-week production after several years of operating at about 60 percent capacity under
the prior owners. Read more