Bio

Steve Bick is accountable to the forest economy. A forester, author, and educator, he has built a career at the intersection of science, practice, and entrepreneurship. As Principal Consultant of Northeast Forests LLC, he has led projects nationwide in timber sales, appraisals, carbon accounting, conservation easements, investment analysis, and supply-chain strategy.

Steve is the founder and director of the t Forest Business School, where he delivers programs for entrepreneurs in the forestry and wood-products sectors. His teaching emphasizes entrepreneurship, systems, high-agency mindset, continuous improvement, and critical chain project management—disciplined methods that reflect his conviction that success comes from execution as much as ideas.

An accomplished author, Steve has published more than a dozen books and manuals, including Timber Tempo: Project Flow in Forestry (2024), After Wood: Routes to Retirement (2024), Continuous Improvement in Logging (2017), and the new Wet Woods: Flux, Flex & Change in Our Forestry (2025). He also created www.loggingchance.com, a public repository where his mobile apps, training materials, and publications are available to the forestry community.

His suite of mobile apps translates accounting and business theory into tools foresters and loggers can use every day. BARK provides quick forestry calculations and field references. WARP adapts critical-chain project management for rural enterprises. BOLT walks users through business plan development. The Sawmill Badger helps mills analyze profitability. These tools reflect Steve’s pioneering work in applying throughput accounting to logging—a breakthrough that gives forest businesses a new lens for improving performance and profitability.

Steve’s applied research and projects include USDA Forest Service–funded studies on climate adaptation in the forest-products supply chain, hardwood value improvement, and logging business innovation. He is a Certified Forester (SAF #2738), a Vermont Licensed Forester, an External (Adjunct) Graduate Faculty member with the University of Maine–Orono School of Forest Resources, a former Visiting Professor at the University of Maine–Fort Kent, and a past Adjunct Professor at SUNY-ESF. Earlier in his career, he managed 80,000 acres of Adirondack and university timberland as a consulting forester and served as a Research Associate at Virginia Tech.

He holds a Ph.D. in Forest Management and Economics from Virginia Tech. Through his writing, teaching, apps, and consulting, Steve equips landowners, loggers, mills, and policymakers with the tools to make sound, forward-looking decisions in an unpredictable world.

Contact: steve@northeastforests.com | 315-369-8007 | northeastforests.com