About The Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association
The Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association (GLTPA) has provided proven leadership in the Lake States Forest products industry for over 75 years. GLTPA is a non-profit organization proud to represent members in Michigan and Wisconsin and is committed to leading Forest Products Industry in sustainable forest management.
Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo
U.P. State Fairgrounds, Escanaba MI
September 7-9, 2023
Industry News
5 March 2023
From the President's Desk
Traditional Silviculture - An Answer to Clean Air. Sometime in the late 1990s, I was given a copy of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. At first, I wasn’t thrilled about the book because it is 1,000 pages of small text. It took about a year to get past the first 50 pages and two years to read the entire book.
5 March 2023
GLTPA's Director's Notes
Greetings, Having been involved in the logging/trucking industry my entire life, and based on experience, it no longer seems appropriate to define logging capacity by the number of loggers and truckers available to do the work. As of late, proven again by real time market demand, logging capacity is more accurately determined by the value of delivered product. In other words, the more money paid, production levels increase dramatically with the same number of producers.
5 March 2023
Product Showcase
UC Coatings has been recognized as the leader in wood protection products for over 50 years. The recent distribution agreement with Breeze Dried™ sticks will further solidify that, and be another added advantage for our customers, and their lumber.
5 March 2023
Feature Article
The Only Constant is Change - Recent Logger Survey Results from Minnesota And Wisconsin. Study Background and History. The Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association has cosponsored a series of multi-state logging industry studies. These studies were conducted in 2012, 2017, and 2022 to track the status and capacity of the logging sector and changes within the logging industry, an important part of our economy in the Lake States
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