Three decades of tools, books, publications, and training resources for the forestry and forest products industry. Built to solve real problems for loggers, foresters, mill operators, and the people who work with them.
Steve Bick is a forester, author, and educator with more than three decades of work in logging economics, timber management, and forest products operations. He simplifies theories and ideas into actions, plans, publications, and tools that help forests, people, and rural enterprises. He is the author or coauthor of eleven books and the creator of a suite of free applications used by loggers, foresters, and sawmill operators across the Northeast and beyond.
Steve is the founder of Northeast Forests LLC, the Forest Business School, and the Lumbermen OS app collection. He works nationally from Montana.
Author or coauthor of eleven books on forestry, logging economics, and conservation.
Project flow in forestry. Applies Critical Chain Project Management to logging, land management, and forest products operations. Case-driven stories from sawmill operations, timber procurement, and multi-site coordination.
View book site → Narrative NonfictionLoggers, foresters, and mill operators adapting to climate change in the Northeast. Stories from the people doing the work as the ground shifts under them.
View book site →Hard copies of most books available at Northern Logger's online store.
Free desktop and mobile applications for forest operations accounting, timber measurements, log rules, conversions, and sawmill analysis.
Calculate financial results for a logging business on a weekly, monthly, annual, or per-job basis. Throughput accounting built for logging.
Sawmill production analysis. Desktop and mobile versions for evaluating log-to-lumber recovery, overrun, and mill profitability.
Biomass, accounting, and resource knowledge. Desktop and mobile app for biomass operations tracking and analysis.
Mobile companion for Northern Logger magazine. Timber weight tables, log rules, and field reference tools.
Log rule calculators, unit conversions, and timber measurement utilities in a single mobile app.
Production analysis for timber harvesting. Track and analyze logging productivity metrics.
Benchmarking tool for comparing logging operation performance against industry data.
Business planning app for logging operations. Build and evaluate business plans with forestry-specific financial models.
Forest products and measurements converter. Quick conversions between board feet, cords, tons, and other forest product units.
Sawmill production analysis for the field. Batch and detailed study modes, four log rules, standard and custom lumber grades. A Lumbermen OS app.
Technical articles and reports on logging economics, biomass, climate adaptation, and timber harvesting systems.
Instructor manuals, slide decks, and course materials for continuing education programs in forestry and logging. All free to use.
One-day workshop on timber measurements for loggers and foresters.
One-day workshop on forest ecology and silviculture fundamentals.
Demonstration guide for northern loggers covering biomass harvesting and utilization.
Small business essentials for loggers. Financial basics, planning, and operations management.
Scott Noble's instructions for using the Michigan Tech methods for training hardwood log buckers.
USFS Hardwood Value Improvement Project's log bucker training slides and software.
One-day workshop for loggers and foresters on productivity and continuous improvement methods.
Course manual for the Project Flow in Forestry short course.
Active projects, platforms, and organizations.
Forestry consulting, research, and tools development for the forest products industry. Based in Montana, working nationally.
northeastforests.comApp collection for logging and sawmill operations. Cut Mark sawmill analysis and other tools in development.
lumbermen.orgAn effective way of reaching working forest professionals. Business education designed for how the industry actually works.
vtfbs.comNarrative nonfiction about loggers, foresters, and mill operators adapting to climate change in the Northeast.
afterwood.loggingchance.comExecution and delivery workflow tools for forest products operations.
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