Author: Mary Hull
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Helping Nature Conservancy Conserve Working Forests
March 2009- By conveying an easement on 450 acres of forestland it owns and manages in Union, CT, Hull Forestlands has helped the Nature Conservancy reach its 50,000 acre mark of protected forests, rivers, and coastline across the state. The conservation easement, established with the help of a grant from the North American Wetlands Conservation…
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Champion of Youth and Wildlife Award
February 2009- The nonprofit organization Facts About Wildlife & Nature Society (FAWNS) has recognized Hull Forest Products for their long-time generous support of the Massachusetts Outdoor Expo (“The Big MOE”) with a special “Champion of Youth and Wildlife Award.” The Big MOE is an outdoor experience where families are encouraged to sample, entirely free of…
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Supplying Wood Chips for Public School Renewable Energy Initiative
September 2008- Hull Forest Products To Supply Wood Chips for Rhode Island Public School Energy Initiative The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $984,000 grant to Ponaganset High School in Rhode Island to develop an alternative energy laboratory and install a wood-chip fired heating system. The D.O.E. grant also includes funds for the installation…
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Energy-Saving Upgrades to Our Dry Kilns
February 2007- What small company wouldn’t want to save $30,000-$40,000 a year in electricity costs? When Hull Forest Products Kiln Manager John Cody approached management about installing new dry kiln controls in 2006, it was the potential savings in energy costs that generated the most excitement. Connecticut Light and Power sent out a private engineer…
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Old Growth Forest Identified and Preserved
June 2003- A Glimpse of the Precolonial Forest in Ashfield, Massachusetts When our family land trust, Hull Forestlands, purchased the Sears Meadow Forest in Ashfield, Massachusetts in 2000, we realized there was a very old stand of eastern hemlock and white pine on the property. Tall and stately with deeply furrowed bark, these trees stand…
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Waste Not, Want Not: Recovering Optimum Value from Every Board
January 2004-Hull Forest Products Installs First-of-Its-Kind Edger In 2004, Hull Forest Products installed and began running a new computer-optimized edger system that was the first of its kind in North America. An edger is a machine that saws the round edges off boards from the saw carriage. This may sound like a simple task, but…
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Cowls Sells Timbers Business to HFP
January 2010- Hull Forest Products announces the addition of pine timbers to its existing spruce and hardwood timbers line, following its purchase of W.D. Cowls’ pine timbers business. Included in the purchase was the Cowls company timber sizer, which enables Hull Forest Products to surface timbers 16” tall and up to 24” wide—huge pieces of wood—on…