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2025 Western Region COFE Seminar

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The Western Region COFE meeting will be held on Thursday, January 9 in Lebanon, OR at the Boulder Falls Inn Event Center.

WR COFE is a regional chapter of the Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) for the western United States and British Columbia. COFE is an international professional organization formed to foster the development of forest engineering in industry, government, and education in order to promote the best methods of managing and operating forests, both private and public. COFE serves the forestry profession by disseminating technical information about forest engineering. For more information about the event, see the full agenda below.

Continuing Education Credits

5 Category 1 SAF CFE Credits will be available for in-person and streaming attendees.

6 WCLA & 8 AOL credits will also be available for in-person attendees.

Registration

In-person registration has reached capacity.

Due to in-person registration filling up, the streaming-only fee will remain at $95 until the day of the event.

For those that registered for in-person, the in-person registration fee includes a one-year membership in The Council on Forest Engineering.

Lodging

Boulder Falls Inn

505 Mullins Drive, Lebanon, OR

Event Agenda

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7 am

Registration opens & coffee available

8 am

Introduction to WR COFE & Seminar

8:15 am

Cables and Anchoring

  1. The Use of Drones with Synthetic Rope in Logging (Mark Standley Jr. and Mike Spear)
  2. Sky Anchor Rigging Configurations and Tensions (Brian Tuor)
9:15 am

Sponsor update

9:25 am

Break (refreshments provided)

9:55 am

Equipment Developments in Forestry and Logging

  1. Falcon Tandem Carriage (Jason Hadaller)
  2. Specialized Equipment for Complicated Forestry Projects (Joel Zeni)
10:55 am

Break (refreshments provided)

11:00 am

Forestry and the Environment

  1. Chemical Soil Stabilization: Methods and Applications (Pavan Akula)
  2. Towards Barred Owl Management in West Coast Forests (J David Wiens)

 

11:50 am

Sponsor update

12 pm

LUNCH (provided)

12:30 pm

Announcements: Jerry Sedlak Memorial Scholarship and the Ed and Sylvia Aulerich Scholarship

  • Student scholarship winner introductions
  • Ticket Raffle
1:30 pm

WR COFE 2026 Program Development (all participants)

2:00 pm

Sponsor update

2:10 pm

Small Wood Utilization

  1. Mass Timber Demand on Oregon Forest Products (Christopher Evans)
  2. Innovations in the Woods: Tech Solutions for Forest Restoration (Woodam Chung)
3:10 pm

Conference wrap-up

3:15 pm

Adjourn