2025 Western Region COFE Seminar

About this Event

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Details

This year’s WR COFE meeting will be held on Thursday, January 9 in Lebanon, OR.

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, see the COFE website at cofe.org.

SAF CFE Credits

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

Pricing

Registration is now open.

The in-person registration fee is $180, and the streaming-only fee is $95 if registered by December 13, 2024. If registered on December 14 or later, the in-person registration fee is $235, and the streaming-only fee is $125. 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

Jan 9 - 7 am

Registration Table Opens & Coffee Available

8 am

Introduction to WR.COFE & Seminar

8:15 am

Cables and anchoring

  1. Synthetic rope (Mark Standley Jr. or Mike Spear)
  2. Cables and anchoring (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 Haddler)
  2. Sennebogen raised cab loader used in roadside hazard tree removal (Joel Zeni)
10:55 am

Break

11:00 am

Forestry and the environment

  1. Chemical Soil Stabilization; methods and applications (Pavan Akula)
  2. Barred Owl cull and affect on Spotted Owl populations (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, Lyons)

2:00 pm

Sponsor Update

2:10 pm

Small wood utilization

  1. Timberlab New Mill and Outlook for small wood (Christopher Evans)
  2. Update on machine vision (Woodam Chung)
3:10 pm

Conference wrap-up (Lyons)

3:15 pm

Adjourn