Robert Schuetz

Rob is the President of IFS and is a past-president of the Society of Consulting Foresters of British Columbia. He specializes in the analysis of fibre supplies throughout BC and Alberta and has spent over 25 years consulting to the natural resource industries. In this regard he has undertaken due-diligence assessments of biomass fuel plans in support of over 50 proposed bioenergy projects; log supplies in support of sawmill acquisitions, economic assessments of the impact of a mountain pine beetle epidemic on timber supplies across Canada; delivered log cost optimization analysis to multiple delivery points and sawmill operating rate forecasts. Rob graduated with a B.Sc. in Forestry from the University of Toronto in 1987.

Barry Mills

Barry is Vice-President of Operations. His expertise is silviculture, operational planning and project management. Barry has spent over 30 years consulting to the forest industry. He manages several senior contract supervisors, each of whom have from five to 20 resource technicians available to undertake a wide range of forestry development projects. Barry graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. in Forestry in 1984.

Kelly Byfield

Kelly is the operations manager of IFS’s Ness Lake Forest Nursery. Employed at the nursery when it was started in 1980, Kelly has moved forward taking on increasingly greater management roles. With over 30 years of experience in forest seedling production Kelly is passionate about growing trees and completed a Diploma in Horticulture and Nursery Management through the University of Guelph in 2006.

Hans Mannhardt

Hans is our Computer Systems technician and stumpage expert. With us since 1984 Hans combined his forestry background with programming expertise to develop and maintain IFS’s stumpage appraisal program, a tool now used by most BC interior forest companies to assess their stumpage obligations. Hans graduated from the University of BC with a B.Sc. in Forestry in 1982 and Okanagan College with a Diploma in Computer Information Systems in 1984.

Jim Wilson

Jim is our Vancouver office manager and maintains our Cruise Compilation Program. With us since 2011, Jim has had a long and varied career managing the cruise compilation program as it evolved and ownership transitioned through five separate companies since 1993. Jim graduated from the BC Institute of Technology’s Renewable Resources Forestry option in 1991.

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