Ward Pine Mill

About Ward Pine Mill

Ward Pine Mill is a sawmill in Jay, New York, that buys white pine logs from loggers and saws, dries, planes, and grades the wood itself. It is a family-owned company now in its fourth generation, tracing back to 1890. The mill buys select grade, #1, #2, and #3 grade white pine logs, cut to lengths from 10 to 20 feet. No logs get bought without talking first and settling on a verbal agreement. It serves loggers working across the North Country, with Essex County among the areas covered. Beyond buying logs, Ward Pine Mill also leases timberland for recreational use. The lease lets the leaseholder post the land, and it comes with an insurance requirement. The company's own forestry department manages over 5,000 acres of timberland and tree farms that it owns, and it says it has "achieved long-term sustained yield since the 1940's." This fits a landowner who already has a logger cutting white pine and needs a mill to sell the logs to, or someone curious about leasing part of their land for recreation, rather than someone looking for a forester to walk their woods and set up a harvest from the ground up. From wardpinemill.com, read 11 October 2026.

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