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Great Lakes Logging • Expo Edition 2025 3
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SPECIAL EXPO EDITION 2025 IN THIS ISSUE
Editor’s Welcome Page 4
Expo returning to Escanaba DNR mass timber building made from Michigan wood Smith & Sons Lumber Co. Hartwick Pines Page 18
Column: Red Pine Glory Page 6
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A participant tests their mettle in the 2023 BARKO Loader
Skills Contest at the Upper Peninsula State Fairground in
Escanaba, Mich. The contest will return to the fairgrounds
with the Great Lakes Logging and Heavy Equipment Expo in
September. See page 6
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