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When MTE makes the news, either locally or nationally, you’ll find the articles right here. For example, you can find an article in the Green Bay Press Gazette about how the basketball floors used for the NCAA Final Four were made from MTE harvested maple wood, as well as a piece about the aftermath of a 2007 tornado that tore through over 3000 acres of the Menominee forest. Find out more about MTE and our forestry practices in these articles.
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PBS Terra recently featured the Menominee Nation’s sustainable logging efforts in their short YouTube documentary, Can Ancient Wisdom Save the Forests? In the film, Host Baratunde Thurston details how while forests across the world have been devastated by overlogging, the 230,000 acre Menominee Forest in Northern Wisconsin continues to thrive...
Honors students at MSOE have partnered with Menominee Tribal Enterprises and the Oneida Nation to create a video game teaching players about sustainable forestry. In the game, "The Giving Forest," players tend to their forest responsibly, managing sick trees, natural disasters and severe weather conditions.
The students collaborate...
U.S. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden visited Menominee Nation on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023 to learn about the Menominee Indian Tribe’s commitment to sustainable agriculture. Dr. Biden is a known advocate for tribes, with the Biden Administration providing $1 million in funding toward the Menominee Tribe’s sustainable forest management ...
The Lumberjack World Championships is a 3 day competition to determine a World champion in a single lumberjack event. Over the course of 3 days hundreds of competitors are compete to make it into the next day through various time trials in their event. I competed in two sawing disciplines, the Men's one man crosscut and finished 4th in the world ...
U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $5 Million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance to Support Forest Products Industry on Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin
Contact: EDA Public Affairs Department, (202) 482-4085September 27, 2022
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Devel...
The 2022 year’s spring tree planting project was an overwhelming success this year! Covid19 had put a halt to the two previous year’s tree planting projects due to the inability of hiring and bringing in professional tree planting crews. This year, the restrictions were lifted and several tree species were ordered from the s...
Peace Tree Ceremony
On May 21 2022 we celebrated the commemoration of the Peace Tree. A gift to the museum from the Menominee Tribal Enterprises, it is a symbol of the museum's community and familial relationships, and a living contract of respect between the Field and the many Indigenous communities with whom we partner.
The Field acknowledges t...
Menomonee Tribal Enterprises donated a 32-foot balsam fir to be used as Wisconsin's official holiday tree in the State Capitol Building. To see pictures and videos of the tree in the Governor's lighting ceremony, read the following article: https://www.channel3000.com/holiday-tree-at-wisconsin-state-capitol-lit-for-the-season/pic/3254997/ ...
August 9, 2021
Menominee Tribal Enterprises has been featured again in the Green Bay Press-Gazette by Frank Vaisvilas again for the stunning flooring made for the Milwaukee Bucks' basketball court. With the Bucks only losing one game at home during the post-season, many in the Menominee Tribe believe that the Native American blessing performed aft...
August 3, 2021
Menominee Tribal Enterprises was recently featured in an article published by the Green Bay Press Gazette. Frank Vaisvilas writes about MTE's sustainably harvested lumber that lined the floors of the NBA Championship series in Milwaukee.
Read the full article here:
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/native-american-is...
June 24, 2021
Menominee Tribal Enterprises was featured in November 2020 by SustainDane, a nonprofit with a focus on positively impacting Dane County's sustainability and wellbeing. Both the president of MTE, Adrian Miller, and the interim Forest Manager, Ron Waukau, were interviewed regarding the devastating wildfires on the West Coast earlier th...
February 2021
Zelazoski Wood Products, Inc. has been producing quality wooden parts since 1924. We think of ourselves as a custom job shop producing everything from Fishing Lure Bodies and Animal Groomers to Brush and Broom Blocks and Grills Scraper, S4S parts to finished and imprinted parts in any quantity from 1 to 10,000 piece...
October 15, 2020
Menominee Tribal Enterprises was recently featured in the Green Bay Gazette for their sustainable business, forestry, and lifestyle.
"The Menominee Forest, which almost entirely fills Menominee County about 60 miles northwest of Green Bay, is a great example of what a forest should be, according to Darrell Zastrow...
July 2020
Since 1972, our handcrafted wooden toys have captured the hearts of kids and adults alike. From our Little Toys for Little Hands to our selection of Big Trucks for the older kids to the essential Bag-O-Blocks, our classic wooden toys encourage your kids to be creative while being unplugged & engaged. Durable, safe and fun, your chi...
July 15, 2020Menominee Tribe Breaks Ground for New Family and Community Engagement Center
(Keshena, WI) –The Menominee Indian Tribe takes another substantial and visible step to demonstrate its commitment to the Tribe’s Mission, Vision, and Values with the start of construction of a new 70,000 square foot Family and Community Engagemen...
The Collins Recital Hall is a brand-new recital hall on UW Madison's campus. The grand opening was on Friday, October 25, 2019.
The Collins Recital Hall seats 189 on the main floor (plus 3 wheelchair access) and 104 in the balcony, with an additional three for wheelchair access, to total 299. Warm wooden elements include wooden planking sourced ...
Menominee Tribal Enterprises (MTE) sponsored the Wisconsin Herd basketball game, hosting the Woodland Girls & Boys Club this past July as they celebrated their grand reopening.
We pride ourselves on our sustainable forestry practices not only because it maintains our gorgeous Menominee tree species, but because it provides future generations w...
In 2018, MTE won Manufacturer of the Year from the Shawano Country Chamber of Commerce.
Shawano Country, located near Green Bay, is home to three Native American tribes — Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Sockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians and Ho-Chunk Nation. Shawano Country celebrates and educates on Native Americ...
In 2017, Menominee Tribal Enterprises was honored with Legacy Recognition for 109 years in business.
MTE was lauded at the Governor's Conference on Minority Business Development, where Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation Secretary and CEO Mark R. Hogan said, speaking to all minority businesses, "You are the backbone of what makes Wisco...
