Which one is "Bulldog"?

captian-obvious: Its unfortunate you feel that way. Next time, you'll know not to watch. What exact industry are you employeed by?

captain_obvious: It's unfortunate you feel that way. Next time, you'll know not to watch. What exact industry are you employed by?

captian oblivious

you must be from southern maine

I watched it last night and I thought it was a great show. It's to bad that people are jealous like you, captain obvious.

I thought the show was borring....like watching a home video.....big deal hauling logs and maybe firing a guy...I can hardly wait to tune in next week lol

I am from the Great Lakes State of Upper Michigan, yes we are also in a bad way. But my dear late husband was not in the forrestry, but the iron ore mining business, They are laying off a ton of men also. I feel fortunate that I am a retired widow and don t need the job, or the medical benefits

Hey Captain Obvious...what are you the Captain of....a snow BLOWER???? Get a life, your not saying much for MAINE TRASH....look in the mirror much?

Hey Scollins327...get any other channels????

I don't understand why politicians keep clinging to free trade and globalization like it is the best thing since sliced bread. It is nothing but a gift to corporate America that creates massive layoffs to the American labor force in favor of slave wages paid to laborers in third world countries. NAFTA is no better. I wonder if free trade is a trade off of American jobs for Chinese jobs so they will keep buying our worthless bonds so we can keep propping up our fake economy? These huge bonds we keep selling to foreign countries seems like paying credit card debts with credit cards. You are just spinning your wheels and aren't getting anywhere. What we are seeing is the result of political administrations, both Republican and Democrat, that were and are arrogant and corrupt. Government sold out it's labor force, it's middle class, and now it's selling out our kids. Sad, really,really sad.

Hopefully Kate123 and her hero The Gov will come and save you all in the logging and paper industry!

Growing up from the Houlton area I know allot of the employees from LP and they have always been considered ‘hard workers’, I think it’s a shame that Houlton Is shutting down and forcing their younger generation out let alone their dedicated ones that stick with a company for 20+ years. Counties need to stick together and fight for one another in order to keep businesses running and their younger ‘home town people’ reasons to stay and hopefully contribute to the economy. Seriously; what is our society coming to when we can’t help out our fellow town’s person?? It’s a shame! No wonder there are towns and cities shutting down! Where in the hell does this leave our children to turn? Let’s hope Obama gets it straight!

LP is hanging in there still. They actually are one of the few in the forest industry still operating in the county. We need to keep our logs here so our Maine citizens can cut and process them, not cut them and ship to Canada. The article is right, if it weren’t for biomass such as Boralex there wouldn’t be anyone left in the woods! To bad they are on the bubble as well with the PUC supporting foreign power over clean green local power.

Value added is where it is at, that value needs to be added locally so Mainers can benefit from the numerous jobs it creates!

CAPTAIN_OBVIOUS IT SEEMS YOU HAD EVERYTHING HANDED TO YOU ON A SILVER PLATTER. LOGGING IN MAINE HAS BEEN HERE FOR GENERATIONS. MY GRANDFATHER WORKED IN THE WOODS AND USED A CROSSCUT SAW TO FALL TREES AND USED A TEAM OF HORSES TO HAUL THE LOGS OUT. I STARTED IN THE WOODS AT 15 YEARS OLD. MOST OF US USED CABLE SKIDDERS, CARRIED A CHAINSAW ON OUR SHOULDER IN CROTCH DEEP SNOW IN WINTER AND IN SUMMER FOUGHT +90 DEGREE WEATHER AND SWARMS OF BLACKFLIES IN SUMMER. WE DID WHAT WE HAD TO TO MAKE A ENDS MEET. AT 52 YEARS I NO LONGER DO THIS KIND OF WORK, BUT I DO WORK ON THE LOGGING EQIPTMENT AND LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT. THIS WAS OUR WAY OF LIFE. WHAT WAS YOURS? ( GET A LIFE)

THIS SHOW IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT THE WORK IS IN THE MAINE WOODS, THIS IS HOW PEOPLE FROM MAINE SURVIVE, IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT (CAPTAIN-OBVIOUS DUMMY) MOVE OUT OF THE STATE. WE DO NOT NEED YOU HERE.

Loreeross, thank you! Some of these issues and mill closings may have been escalated by the bad economy, but mills in Maine have been shutting down for years, even before the economic crisis. NAFTA, CAFTA, and the agreement with Colombia that they're trying to pass now is not good for American workers and the middle class. It's also important to realize that it's not helping the workers or the economies in these other countries either. I know mostly about the effects on Mexico and Central America, but they're getting screwed too. They might have the jobs, but they don't pay enough to buy the products and that paired with the influx of things like cheap American corn into their markets is making life tougher and tougher. We have to ask ourselves why we've seen more illegal immigration, and this is at the heart of it. These free trade agreements are only good for the corporations, the people at the top. We have to start working together to change the way things are done, and that means joining forces with the immigrants who have come as economic refugees and who would rather make a living at home. There's an international movement for a fair global economy brewing and we should all be a part of it in one way or another to keep jobs here in Maine!