Vertical Integration Part 2: Pleasant River Lumber and A&A Brochu Logging

In this episode, Part 2 of our series on vertical integration, we interview Jason Brochu, who along with his brother and co-president Chris Brochu, have revived their family’s logging business after a 20-year hiatus under the umbrella of Pleasant River Lumber Company in central Maine. We’re also joined by Toby Pineo, the general manager of A&A Brochu logging. For more background on vertical integration, and to hear my discussion with Lyme Adirondack Forest Company’s general manager Eric Ross about their decision to add an in-house logging and a road-building crew to their working forest conservation easement, check out our previous episode, Vertical Integration Part 1 . Read our article in the August issue of the Northern Logger entitled “Vertical Integration: A Tale of Two Operations,” for more on the LAFCO and A&A Brochu crews. To

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Vertical Integration Part 2: Pleasant River Lumber and A&A Brochu Logging is an episode from The Northern Logger by Eileen Townsend.

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This episode was published on Aug 29, 2023.

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