The Minnesota Logger Education Program (MLEP) was established in 1995 to assist logging business owners in meeting ever-changing demands of their profession. MLEPprovides assistance to Minnesota’s logging community through educational programming. This objective is accomplished by partnering with numerous groups to identify needs and facilitating the development, design, delivery and evaluation of programs which focus on sustainable forest management, transportation, safety and business management.  MLEP, which is based in Duluth, MN, is a 501(c)(3) organization.

Logging business owners who achieve membership within MLEP are required to meet educational and legal business requirements.

MLEP strives to:

• Promote excellence in logger education and professional development within Minnesota's logging industry.

• Provide the logging industry with a means of responding to the state legislature's call for sustainable forest resource management as outlined in the 1995 Minnesota Sustainable Forest Resource Act.

• Serve the administrative purpose of facilitating continuing education programs that benefit loggers through education programs that benefit loggers through educational attainment of sustainable forestry principles, responsible business management practices and workplace safety.

• Improve logger awareness of laws and guidelines that affect Minnesota's logging industry.

• Provide widespread recognition for logging business owners who complete program requirements.