A sound forest products industry encourages landowners to keep their lands as forests by providing a market for the trees that are harvested. Without an opportunity for income, many landowners would be forced to sell or develop their land. Providing public access to privately owned forest lands is an ongoing Maine tradition. Local mills convert the trees into paper products, lumber, lumber, and furniture components, while employing thousands of families. As trees become overmature, they change from being oxygen producers to oxygen users.
Wood is the most environmentally beneficial raw materials the United States has.
No other raw material helps the environment while it grows like wood does. Growing trees cleans the air by removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. Our wood resource is renewable, recyclable and sustainable. One third of the United States is forested.