The Forest Resources Association’s Board of Directors elected Bill Johnson, Jr., President of Johnson Timber, to serve as the Association’s Chairman for the coming two years.

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The Forest Resources Association names Bill Johnson as Chairman

May 12, 2016. /Lesprom Network/. The Forest Resources Association’s Board of Directors elected Bill Johnson, Jr., President of Johnson Timber, to serve as the Association’s Chairman for the coming two years.

Bill Johnson began working for Hayward, Wisconsin-based Johnson Timber in 1997, rising through various positions until being named President in 2006. He also serves as Director of Government Affairs and Public Relations for the company’s acquisition, Flambeau River Papers. In 2008, he formed the patent-holding technology company, Renewable and Densified Fuels, and in 2011 helped form Timberian LLC, an international consulting firm active in the Caribbean, South America, and Asia.

Johnson is a former Chairman of the Wisconsin State Implementation Committee for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® and is a current Board member of the American Forest & Paper Association and of the Federal Forest Resource Coalition, in addition to his long service on FRA’s Board and Executive Committee.

Bill serves as the Finance Chairman for the Wisconsin state Republican Party and as the National Treasurer for GOPAC.

The Forest Resources Association Inc. is a nonprofit trade association concerned with the safe, efficient, and sustainable harvest of forest products and their transport from woods to mill.