ARKPRO LOGGER
Award-winning Training and National Model
The ArkPro Logger Training and Education program was established in 1995 in support of the American Forest & Paper Association's (AFPA) Sustainable Forestry Initiative. Today the program continues as a formal outreach effort of the national Sustainable Forestry Board's SFI Certification program and serves as a model statewide professional development and conservation training effort for timber harvesters and others involved in forest resources management.
Administered by the Arkansas Timber Producers Association (ATPA), ArkPro Logger training has reached more contractors, crew members, landowners and forestry professionals than any other training programs of its kind. The program has been well received by participants and has been honored by the national Forest Resources Association as one of best professional logger training programs in the nation, earning a second place recognition FRA National Outstanding Logger Training Award in 1996, a first-place FRA K.S. Rolston Memorial Award in 1998 and a second place K.S. Rolston Memorial recognition again in 2000.
ARKPRO LOGGER SUPPORTERS
Triple B Wood Dealers • Duke Sawmill • Plum Creek
Green Bay Packaging • J. P. Price Lumber Company
Georgia-Pacific • Potlatch • Deltic • Domtar • Weyerhaeuser
Red Mountain Timberlands, LLC • Smurfit Stone
J. R. Banks Lumber Company • Anthony Forest Products
Timber Star • Evergreen Packaging, Inc. • International Paper • Ransom Logging
Evergreen Packaging • Timber Star NW • Forest Resources Association
