President of the B.C. Truck Loggers Association steps down

Thomas Olsen has stepped down from his position of president for the British Columbia Truck Loggers Association.

Olsen has also stepped down as an executive and director of Triumph Timber, one of the coast's leading-edge companies in developing ecosystem-based logging to focus on his new role as the managing director of Haida Economic Corp. As managing director, his new business duties include spearheading economic development on Haida Gwaii.

The current forestry crisis has shut down most coastal forest operations. Olsen said he is no longer the right person to lead the organization in its transition out of crisis.

A new president will be appointed this week at the Truck Logger Association's scaled down annual conference in Victoria. First vice-president Graham Lasure, who heads one of the coast's most established logging companies, W.D. Moore Logging, is a likely candidate to replace Olsen.

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Truck loggers' leader resigns - Thomas Olsen cites new duties on Haida Gwaii (Times Colonist)