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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

“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

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

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

We are pleased that Bloomberg is reporting on the challenges and opportunities facing the market for forest carbon offsets.    Read more

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

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

The banks are expected to sell credits to the Texas Department of Transportation, commercial and residential real estate developers, and oil and gas companies.   Read more

The Maine Coast Heritage Trust has secured a critical parcel in a 30,000-acre conservation project following the parcel’s 2011 acquisition by Schoodic Woods LLC, an affiliate of The Lyme Timber Company.   Read more

The working forest conservation easement completes the permanent conservation of the entire 46,581-acre Lyme Cross City Forest.   Read more