BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 11, 2023
On the heels of a banner sales year in 2022, Katahdin Forest Products has closed one mill and laid off 20 employees because its cedar stock is nearly depleted. The combination of warmer weather and a 30 percent reduction in the number of Maine firms harvesting timber means the company cannot keep pace with the demands of cedar log home and fencing sales, owner David Gordon said. “While there have been shortened seasons in the past, there has never been a year where supply was this limited,” Gordon said.