Dana Schmitz

Dana has been in the Wood Products Industry for over 26 years and started working for Idaho Forest Group in early 2012. Dana started in the Industry with Potlatch Corporation in accounting, moved through Superintendent roles in both lumber and plywood. Most of the last ten years with Potlatch was spent as their Business Planning Manager for their Wood Products Division. The last three years he served as Plant Manager for Lewiston Lumber under Clearwater Paper. Dana has a solid base in Modeling with Linear Programming, going back to the early days of PC’s in the late 80’s. Dana will be working on identifying opportunities across all functions and operations within IFG to improve our cost positions of our revenue stream.