MFPC actively promotes the family-sustaining employment of Michigan's loggers. Each year Michigan's 1,500 logging firms produce around 4 million cords of fiber, providing the necessary resource to manufacture our everyday products. MFPC is a leader in protecting fiber industry jobs, increasing logger safety, and educating loggers on certified sustainable practices.
The MFPC Talent Taskforce has created a few tools that would be helpful if your organization would like to host a tour group.
Below is a document that breaks down the items of importance to consider when organizing the group, ensuring group safety, effectivetly communicating to group members, etc.
The taskforce also created a powerpoint slide deck that highlights Michigan's forest products industry statistics, in a way that relates better to the general public.
Our annual report can be viewed via the link below.
As Weyerhaeuser has been implementing their new contracts with suppliers across Wood Products and Timberlands, their people and suppliers quickly identified a gap in the Lake States. Find out what it is.
The 2018 first quarter report includes data on forest health in Huron-Manistee, Ottawa and Hiawatha forests, first quarter state and federal market activity and first quarter timber sales.
At it's very core, timber harvesting is the most basic forest management activity. It is an important part of keeping both forests and the communities that depend on them healthy and sustainable. Skillful logging creates wildlife habitat and protects streams from erosion and landscapes from fire, while supporting our country's seventh largest industry: forest product manufacturing.
The 2018 fourth quarter report includes data on forest health in Huron-Manistee, Ottawa and Hiawatha forests, fourth quarter state and federal market activity and fourth quarter timber sales.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources Timber report for the fourth quarter fiscal year 2021-2022 Public Act 87 of 2021, Section 802.