Wood Workers
A photographer documents the faces of logging in the North Maine Woods and beyond
From the time the first sawmill opened in South Berwick in 1634 to the 1830s when Bangor was the world’s largest lumber port, from the mechanization of the industry in the twentieth century to the industry’s current focus on sustainability, logging has been part of the fabric of Maine. In an industry constantly changing and reinventing itself, the one constant has been the woodsmen. In many ways the faces here represent Maine itself: hardy, resourceful, and determined. Keenly in tune with the land, they continue to provide, as their predecessors did, the foundational materials for building and maintaining strong communities.
Cody Theriault on newly harvested wood.
Previously cut forest in the North Maine Woods. 
Cody Plourde cleaning out snow and ice from under a machine. 
Cam Jackson stands outside the feller buncher he operates.
Kyle Kendall working on a skidder.
Billy Caron next to a logging truck. 
A portrait of Ryan Hanley. 
Garin Peck, a forester, in Biddeford.
A log pile at a J.D. Irving lumber yard in the North Maine Woods.
Logs being cut to shipping length in Biddeford.
A grapple skidder in operation. 
A logging truck transporting wood to a mill. 
A feller buncher gathering logs in Biddeford.
Making on-site repairs to a feller buncher.
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