Dennis Parent, ACF, CF

Dennis is an eastern boy who grew up in the woods of northern Massachusetts. He first became interested in forestry during his time in the Boy Scouts when he discovered that one could actually make a career out of the things that he loved to do. After finishing his first M.S. degree at Utah State University, he worked as a logger and forester for The Pack River Company near Bozeman, Montana. He continued with Pack River in Coeur d’Alene. For the next 37 years he helped Inland Empire Paper Company develop a forestry department, performing just about every forestry responsibility imaginable. In 2014, he started his own forestry consulting business to get a taste of the “real world”. Finally in 2022, he and Mike Wolcott got together and decided his wealth of forestry skills could be put to good use at Inland Forest Management.