David Elstone, Managing Director – Spar Tree Group Inc.

David is a professional forester and a highly regarded forest industry expert with over thirty years of experience within the sector. David is the managing director of Spar Tree Group Inc., a consultancy firm, and the publisher of the View From The Stump newsletter as well as the associated blog, Right From The Stump.

Prior to founding the Spar Tree Group, David was the executive director of the Truck Loggers Association (TLA), advocating on behalf of the businesses supporting the BC forest industry’s supply chain. Before the TLA, David worked for ten years as a senior financial analyst for ERA Forest Products Research, advising institutional investors, manufacturers, and governments on global forest product markets. In the earliest part of his career, David spent over a decade working in British Columbia’s forests.

David’s consulting clientele and newsletter subscribers benefit from his unique background in BC forest policy and politics, the forest products sector and forest management by providing an independent perspective of the trends and issues affecting the British Columba forest industry.

David has a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University and a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from the University of British Columbia.