John McClain serves on our Board of Directors and is the Green Mountain district manager for New England Forestry Consultants, Inc. He is responsible for the central Vermont region. Before coming to our company, John ran his own forestry business, Forest Resource Associates, for twelve years. He currently manages 40,000 acres of private lands by producing management plans and administering timber sales as well as providing a full range of forestry related services. He is Chair of the VT Current Use Advisory Board, a member of the Consulting Foresters of VT and of the Society of American Foresters. John also is a Tree Farm Inspector and a former Logger Education to Advance Professionalism Program Project Forester. He holds a B. S. degree in Forest Management from the University of Massachusetts.