Dan Opalach, FBRI President
Dr. Dan Opalach spent the first 28 years of his career working for Green Diamond Resource Company on the North Coast of California developing forest inventories, silvicultural prescriptions, and management plans for their 2nd and 3rd growth redwood and Douglas-fir stands. Looking for new challenges, in 2017 Dan decided to move to the Sacramento Valley and start his own forestry consulting business where he is able to assist timberland owners throughout the Pacific Northwest maximize the value of their timberland assets.
Dr. Opalach is passionate about all aspects of forest mensuration. Sampling, direct measurements of trees, and forest growth and yield are topics that he has studied and utilized for decades. In 2016 and 2017, Dan had the pleasure to teach this material to upper division forestry students at Humboldt State University. Teaching forest mensuration enhanced his passion for understanding the underlying scientific foundations of this critically important forest management subject area.