Media cover UMaine Woodsmen’s Team home meet
WLBZ (Channel 2) and the Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported on the annual home meet of the University of Maine Woodsmen’s Team. The 30-member team competed against groups from Paul Smith’s College, Unity College, University of New Hampshire, Colby College and University of Vermont. The event featured several classic Maine logging games, including singles activities, such as disk stack, axe throw and single buck; double and triple events, such as chopping, fire build and splitting; and team events such as log roll, sawing and pulp toss. “These are recreating events from history’s past, like this event you’re seeing here — vert chop — represents chopping down trees in the woods,” Gradeigh Cameron, a member of the UMaine team told MPBN. “You name an event and it’s got a reason.” The meet’s head judge, Tim White, told MPBN it’s one of the only sports that’s so directly linked to a major industry. “They’re keeping alive the skills that really set this country up to be what is it today, and to keep forestry skills alive,” he said.