Meet the Board

Doug NElson - 2025 ILC President

I am a professional forester with 33 years experience. I started working in the woods as a Fee Land Forester for DAW Forest Products in Oldtown, Idaho. I transitioned through several company buyouts and was transferred to the St Maries area where I worked until 2010 for Forest Capital Partners. In 2010 I took a job as a forester/log buyer for Blue North Forest Products in Kamiah where I advanced to Resource Manager after a few years. After the closure of Blue North Forest Products I was a log buyer for just short of a year for Alta Forest Products buying logs and evaluating agency sales for Alata who had a mill at Naples, Idaho. Shortly after leaving Alta I started my own Forestry Consulting business and have not looked back. I now find myself working in the industry I love with performing work for multiple timber companies, logging companies, private landowners, and local counties. I have also diversified my business to include professional Chemical application to perform vegetation management on roadsides, ownerships with range, pasture, and forest settings.

Bryan Lorengo - 2025 ILC Vice President

Bryan’s primary role for KLM includes safety, trucking logistics and KLM's log yard. Bryan was born and raised in Anaconda and spent countless hours in his youth around his family business Lorengo Logging. Since then, Bryan, like most loggers, found his true passion working in the woods and logging. Bryan previous employment includes working for the Montana DNRC as a wildland firefighter, Lorengo Logging truck driver, equipment operator and timber procurement, Lorengo Forestry as the owner and consultant forester and coordinator of a multi county fuel hazard reduction program for private landowner and most recently ten years working for the Montana Logging Association with work in logging safety and federal policy. Bryan graduated from Anaconda High School (1994) and University of Montana Western (1999) with a BS in Elementary Education. Bryans volunteer service included four term as school board trustee for the Anaconda School District and currently serves on the Intermountain Logging Conference Board and the Real Montana Board. Bryan and his brother Paul run the largest cornhole tournament in the NW US and through this most recently started a foundation for charitable giving. Bryan and his wife Kim live in Anaconda and their three children Logan, Carter and Kendyl.

Tyler Roady - 2025 ILC Treasurer

Tyler was born and raised in North Idaho and has been around forestry and logging his entire life. Following in his father's footsteps Tyler received his bachelor’s degree in Forest Products – Harvest Operations from the University of Idaho. Graduating in 2008, during the heart of the Great Recession, Tyler continued to work as a fire fighter for the USFS as very few industry forester positions were available. Then in 2010, Potlatch Corp took a chance and hired Tyler as an entry level forester in St. Maries, Idaho. With the new job lined up Tyler and his wife, Amber, moved to Harrison, Idaho a small-town northwest of St. Maries. Tyler’s career grew in St. Maries, with what is now PotlatchDeltic, as he was promoted to Sr. Forester in 2013, then to District Forest Manager in 2018. Tyler and Amber’s family grew too, with their daughter Claire being born in 2011 and son Weston being born in 2015. In 2017 Tyler was nominated to the Board of Directors for the ILC, where he thoroughly enjoys interacting with other industry members from throughout the Intermountain region.

Tim McEntire

Tim is the third generation of his family to work in the Timber Industry. He currently works for the Montana Logging Association as a safety manager and engaging in federal policy. Prior to working at the MLA, Tim worked for his family logging business for 22 years.

Chad Nelson

Chad is a logging contractor from St. Maries, Idaho.  Starting as a shop kid for a local contractor grinding chains and sweeping floors, he worked his way up to drive truck, and later a variety of equipment.  In 2016, Chad and his brother started Nelson Brothers Timber Management.  Chad operates a feller buncher primarily among his other business owner duties. Chad and his wife, Reva, have twin daughters and enjoy spending time outdoors.  Chad was nominated to the ILC Board of Directors in 2018. 

Ryer Becker

Ryer is the Forest Operations Extension Specialist for the University of Idaho and has been with the University in various roles since 2014. After completing his graduate degrees from the UI, he joined the faculty in 2022. In addition to teaching within the 2 and 4-year forestry programs, Ryer works closely with logging contractors and others within the forest products industry in Idaho and beyond to advance education, training, and workforce development for the forest sector as a whole . Ryer lives in Moscow, Idaho with his wife and two daughters

Gabe Ikola

3rd generation logger born and raised in McCall, Idaho. Gabe has worked many different jobs in the woods including processor operator, skidder operator, log truck driver, loader operator

Bryan Martin

Bryan is the manager of Les Schwab Tires in St. Maries, ID.