Promoting the Wise Stewardship of Our Forest Resources

NELA is a regional trade group representing members of the Northeast and Lake States’ logging, sawmilling, and forest products community.

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About Us

For over sixty years the Northeastern Loggers Association has published a highly respected monthly magazine that focuses exclusively on our region – The Northern Logger and Timber Processor. NELA also produces training programs, pamphlets and books, and the region’s largest exposition of forest products and tree care equipment. If you are interested in becoming a member, please click the link below.

Features

Selected articles from The Northern Logger & Timber Processor magazine.

A forwarder unloading softwood logs on the CT Lakes Headwaters property in Pittsburg, NH this summer (photo credit Charles Levesque)
When a Large Timberland Owner Decides to Sell Carbon Instead of Cutting Timber: Controversy in Northern New Hampshire

The new owner of private land in northern New Hampshire plans to curtail logging on the property in lieu of selling carbon. In the July 2023 issue of the Northern Logger, I wrote that forest carbon markets are not affecting timber availability yet because there are so few acres under carbon projects in the US relative to the amount of forest being managed for timber.

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A Look at the 2023 Loggers’ Expo

In late May, the annual Loggers’ Expo (Northeastern Forest Products Equipment Expo) returned to Bangor, making it the 19th time it has been hosted by the Northeastern Loggers’ Association in Maine’s largest commercial center. The 2023 show represented a giant step towards the pre-COVID-19 shows that the industry has enjoyed for decades.

Log landing cleaned up and seeded down with conservation mix and lupines.
New Hampshire Current Use Law Celebrates 50 Years

New Hampshire’s scenic landscape exists today due to the vision and actions of many taken 50 years ago. During the 1960s, the New Hampshire population was growing fast and so were our property taxes, particularly in the southern part of the State.

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