THEME: IMPROVING FOREST HARVESTING OPERATIONS – January 18, 2018 — Valley River Inn, Eugene, Oregon
- (7 Hours + 1 Forest Practices AOL Professional Logger Credits)(TBA)
- (8 Washington Master Loggers Program Credits) (TBA)
- (6.5 Cat 1 Contact Hours SAF Continuing Forestry Ed Credits) (TBA)
WR.COFE is a regional chapter (western United States and British Columbia) of the COUNCIL ON FOREST ENGINEERING (COFE). 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: www.cofe.org
Program Details:
0700 – 0815 REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (Provided)
0815 – 0830 Introduction to WR.COFE & Seminar — Jeff Wimer, Chair, WR.COFE & OSU FERM Department
SESSION 1: Forestry Drones
0830-0900 Drones for assistance in cable logging operations — Mark Standley – LogSafe Inc.
0900 – 0930 Applications of UAV in forest monitoring: a regeneration survey case and an ice damage case — Bogdan Strimbu – OSU
SESSION 2: Tether Assist and ground / soil impacts
0930 – 1000 Mobility of Tethered Equipment on Steep Slopes: Soil-Machine Interactions – Ben Leschinsky – OSU
1000 – 1010 Triad Machinery Update
1010 – 1040 BREAK (Refreshments Provided)
1040 – 1050 Pape’ Machinery Update
1050 – 1120 CTL thinning on steep ground with Ecoforst T-Winch — Terry Mann – L&L Inc.
1120 – 1150 Large Scale Integrated Management Experiment on the Olympic Experimental State Forest – Opportunities for Operational Research – Tedora Minkova – WA DNR
1150 – 1200 Peterson Cat update
1200 – 1240 LUNCH (Provided)
1240 – 1310 ANNOUNCEMENTS, Ticket Raffle, OSU Student Scholarship Awards – Jerry Sedlak Memorial Scholarship
1310 – 1320 Blount International update
SESSION 3: Road and Water
1320 – 1350 Alternative techniques for stabilizing legacy roads with access challenges — Jill Bell and Susan Shaw – Weyerhaeuser
1350 – 1400 Modern Machinery Update
1400 – 1420 BREAK (Refreshments Provided)
1420 – 1450 Suspended sediment and turbidity after road construction/improvement and forest harvest in streams of the Trask River Watershed Study, Oregon — Ivan Arismendi – OSU
1450 – 1520 Re-engineering/Reconstruction of Railcars for Forest Operations — Ken Hoffine and Wes Addington – Lone Rock Timber
SESSION 4: Technological Innovation in Forestry
1520 – 1550 Show me the Money — David Smith – Courtesy Faculty
1550 – 1620 After the Fire – Don Persyn- Roseburg Forest
1620 – 1630 Wrap-Up and Evaluation — Jeff Wimer
Registration and Fees: Registration is now handled through: Western Forestry and Conservation. The fee for this conference is: $135. This includes a one year membership in The Council on Forest Engineering. Registration is now closed for this event
If you have difficulty with the registration webpage or any questions regarding registration please contact: Western Forestry and Conservation, 4033 SW Canyon Road, Portland, OR 97221 Phone: (503) 226-4562