Keith Olson is the executive director of the Montana Logging Association; an organization that represents approximately 600 family-owned timber harvesting businesses throughout Montana’s forested regions.  As such, these are the folks that harvest and transport the majority of timber from forest to mill in Montana.
Mr. Olson was born in Minnesota, raised and educated in Oregon, and spent most of his professional career in the Rocky Mountain west.
He received a degree in forest management from Oregon State University in 1969; and his early work experience includes five years as a corporate forester in Oregon—followed by seven years as a consulting forester in Idaho—before taking over the reins of the Montana Logging Association in 1980.