No. 01
Timber Harvesting
Selective and clearcut harvests cut to a written plan. We mark the take, drop it clean, and skid low-impact so the soil and the residual stand come through the job in good shape.
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Timber harvesting · Land clearing · Forest management
Maine timber,
Maine timber,
harvested right.
Three generations working the North Maine Woods — and leaving the land better than we found it.
Allagash Timber & Logging Co. harvests woodlots, clears land, and manages forests across Aroostook County. We cut to a plan, haul to the mill, and walk off a lot that's set up to grow for the next forty years — not stripped for the next forty days.
Since 1972Three generations in the Ashland woods
40,000+ acresHarvested & managed across Aroostook
SFI-certifiedSustainable Forestry Initiative practices
Licensed & insuredMaine Master Logger, fully covered
The work
From stump to mill — and back to growing.
A full timber operation under one crew, one plan, and one phone number. No subcontracted strangers on your land.
No. 02
Land Clearing
Building a camp, a field, a driveway, or a house lot? We clear, grub stumps, and grade to your stakes — turning standing timber into usable, opened ground and salable logs.
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No. 03
Forest Management & Thinning
Pre-commercial and commercial thinning that opens the canopy, releases your best crop trees, and puts more growth on fewer, healthier stems for the harvest down the road.
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No. 04
Log Trucking
Our own tri-axle and log trucks haul sawlogs, pulp, and studwood to the right mill for the right price — so your wood moves on our schedule, not a broker's.
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No. 05
Firewood & Biomass
Tops, limbs, and low-grade stems become seasoned cordwood and clean chip-and-grind biomass — full utilization that pays the landowner instead of rotting in a slash pile.
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No. 06
Lot & Site Clearing
Right-of-way, view-cuts, storm cleanup, and house-lot site prep done by a crew that knows how to drop a tree exactly where it needs to land.
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Working with woodlot owners
Your woodlot is an inheritance. We treat it like one.
Most landowners only harvest once or twice in a lifetime. Get it wrong and you live with it for decades. We make sure you get it right.
Whether you own forty acres behind the house or four hundred up a tote road, the deal is the same: we walk it with you, lay out an honest plan, pay fair stumpage, and cut so the woods keep producing. You're not selling your trees to us — you're hiring us to manage your most valuable acres.
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Free timber assessmentWe walk your lot, cruise the timber, and tell you straight what you've got and what it's worth. No cost, no obligation.
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Fair stumpage, paid honestYou see the mill scale and tally tickets, and you get paid at real market rates — not a flat lowball for the whole lot sight-unseen.
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Sustainable selective harvestWe take the mature, the crowded, and the declining — and leave your crop trees and young growth to carry the woodlot forward.
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Land left better than we found itTrails graded, water bars set, landings cleaned up. We leave a lot you can walk, hunt, and harvest again.
Why Allagash Timber
Deep-woods experience. A conservation conscience.
Conservation-minded
We log for the next harvest, not just this one. SFI-certified practices, written management plans, and selective cuts keep your woodlot growing wood — and habitat — for the long haul.
Three generations deep
The Belanger family has been cutting in the Ashland woods since 1972. We've harvested some of these lots twice over, and we know which ridges hold spruce and which bottoms turn to soup in mud season.
Low-impact iron
Tracked feller-bunchers, cut-to-length processors, and wide-track skidders spread the load and protect the soil. The right machine on the right ground means less rutting and a faster, cleaner job.
From here to harvested
Four steps, no surprises.
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Walk the lot
We meet you on the property, look at your boundaries, goals, and access, and listen to what you want this woodlot to be in twenty years.
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Assessment & plan
We cruise the timber, mark the take, and put a written harvest plan and stumpage offer in your hands — clear volumes, clear prices, clear boundaries.
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Harvest
Our crew and our iron do the work on a schedule that respects mud season and your land. Walk the job any day and see exactly what's happening.
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Cleanup & replant
We grade the trails, set the water bars, clean the landing, and — where it fits the plan — replant or release the next stand. Then hand the lot back better.
Our story
A family, a crew, and a half-century in the North Woods.
Allagash Timber & Logging started in 1972 when Roland Belanger ran a single skidder out of a yard on the Garfield Road in Ashland. Fifty-plus years later his son and grandsons run the operation — a tight crew of woodsmen who grew up on these tote roads, hauling to the same mills, hunting the same ridges, and answering to the same name on the truck doors.
We're not a corporate outfit running shifts of strangers across the county. We're a family operation that lives where it works, and we take it personally when a job is done right. The North Maine Woods raised us. Cutting it responsibly is how we pay it back.
Meet the operation
Aroostook County & the North Maine Woods
Working the County from Ashland out.
We harvest, clear, and manage woodlots across Aroostook and the North Maine Woods — Ashland, Presque Isle, Caribou, Fort Kent, Houlton, Patten, Millinocket, and the camps and tote roads between them. If your land's in the County, we can get to it.
AshlandHome yard on the Garfield Road
Presque IsleCentral Aroostook woodlots
CaribouNorthern County harvests
Fort KentSt. John Valley & upper river
HoultonSouthern Aroostook & I-95
Patten & MillinocketKatahdin region & deep woods