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		<title>TREE GROWTH TAX LAW</title>
		<link>http://www.maineloggers.com/general/tree-growth-tax-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IS IT TIME TO RE-CERTIFY YOUR LAND?
Tree Growth – also known as the Maine Tree Growth Tax Program – is Maine’s current use tax program for productive forestland. The program is administered in organized municipalities by town assessors and in the unorganized territories by Maine Revenue Service’s Property Tax Division. “Current use” means that enrolled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As We See It: Amending the Clean Water Act</title>
		<link>http://www.maineloggers.com/alc-american-loggers-council/as-we-see-it-amending-the-clean-water-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.maineloggers.com/alc-american-loggers-council/as-we-see-it-amending-the-clean-water-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Loggers Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Geisinger – Chair, ALC Legislative Committee
Members of the American Loggers Council joined with several like-minded organizations in 2011 in an effort to amend the Clean Water Act to permanently exempt silvicutural operations, including the use of forest roads for transporting unrefined forest products from onerous National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. DOT releases NEW Hours of Service (HOS) Final Rule</title>
		<link>http://www.maineloggers.com/federal-legislation/u-s-department-of-transportation-releases-new-hours-of-service-final-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost of Doing Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Rulemaking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced a final rule that employs the latest research in driver fatigue to make sure truck drivers can get the rest they need to operate safely when on the road.  The new rule by the U.S. Department of Transportation&#8217;s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) revises the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Up to Date: sign up for the PLC of Maine RSS Feed</title>
		<link>http://www.maineloggers.com/news/773/</link>
		<comments>http://www.maineloggers.com/news/773/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Call to Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loggers Voice]]></category>
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Sign up to get Email Alerts using our RSS Feed.  Simply click on this logo  to have updates sent directly to your email, bookmarks or PDA.
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		<title>Qualified Logging Professional (QLP) Announces Next Course</title>
		<link>http://www.maineloggers.com/industry-events/qualified-logging-professional-qlp-announces-next-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.maineloggers.com/industry-events/qualified-logging-professional-qlp-announces-next-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Starting January, 12, 2012, the Qualified Logging Professional Program will start the next QLP course. This course is a Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) 30 hr. approved course for safe and sustainable wood harvesting practices. The course will be held at   So. Aroostook Community Schools (SACS), Dyer Brook,  Maine.
 
Classes will meet January 12, February [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanson out as Great Northern Paper president</title>
		<link>http://www.maineloggers.com/business-impact/hanson-out-as-great-northern-paper-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.maineloggers.com/business-impact/hanson-out-as-great-northern-paper-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nick Sambides Jr.
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Exactly a week after he said that Great  Northern Paper Co. LLC didn’t regard Roxanne Quimby’s proposed  70,000-acre national park a threat to his industry, Peter Hanson is no  longer GNP’s president, company officials announced Tuesday.
Read the full story in the Bangor Daily News
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		<title>PLC LOGGER&#8217;S VOICE &#8211; December 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.maineloggers.com/newsletter/plc-loggers-voice-december-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.maineloggers.com/newsletter/plc-loggers-voice-december-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loggers Voice]]></category>

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Read the December 2011 PLC Logger&#8217;s Voice here

and
 
Read the December 2011 PLC Logger&#8217;s Voice Insert here

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		<title>LURC Study Commission releases final report</title>
		<link>http://www.maineloggers.com/legislation/lurc-study-commission-releases-final-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.maineloggers.com/legislation/lurc-study-commission-releases-final-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LePage Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine Legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LURC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine Regulations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The LURC Study Commission has released final report &#38; recommendations.
CLICK HERE to read the report
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		<title>Latest PIX Index Values W/Comments</title>
		<link>http://www.maineloggers.com/markets/latest-pix-index-values-with-comments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.maineloggers.com/markets/latest-pix-index-values-with-comments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Foex has just done their weekly update on Pulp &#38; Paper Prices in the USA 
Review the latest numbers anytime on www.foex.fi

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		<title>American Loggers Council Unveils New Website</title>
		<link>http://www.maineloggers.com/alc-american-loggers-council/american-loggers-council-unveils-new-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.maineloggers.com/alc-american-loggers-council/american-loggers-council-unveils-new-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Loggers Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Organization takes steps with industry partners to provide user friendly design and content
Hemphill, Texas (December 12, 2011) - Today, the American Loggers Council (ALC) unveiled a newly redesigned website.   Americanloggers.org provides news and resources to better support the mission of the ALC to serve as a unified voice for professional loggers and to communicate with [...]]]></description>
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