BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 23, 2026
My family’s company, Treeline, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is a diversified, second-generation logging and forest trucking business that supports over 100 families. Businesses like Treeline, Inc., depend on reliable local markets for wood. When mills close or reduce capacity, the impact is felt by loggers and their families immediately, in rural parts of the state, which aren’t blessed with diversity of opportunity. Like all other logging businesses, we are facing rising costs. Markets have also been reduced and we are being paid less for the products that we produce. Economics are simply not in our favor, but a $40 million bond being considered at the Legislature will help companies like ours reinvest for the future in face of strong headwinds. I urge all Maine Legislators to please support the agriculture, forestry, and food producers bond. ~ Whitney Goodman, Lincoln