2026 Western Region COFE Seminar | Jan 8, 2026

Nov 19, 2025

The Western Region COFE Seminar will be held on Thursday, January 8, 2026 in Lebanon, OR at the Boulder Falls Inn Event Center.

The 2026 Western Region Council on Forest Engineering Seminar will host speakers from Oregon, Washington, California and beyond to highlight new technology within all parts of the forest products supply chain. Join us as we continue the tradition of great inspiration and shared innovations across the West. 

About WR COFE – 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.

Continuing Education Credits

We expect this event to offer SAF CFE credits, AOL OPL CE, and WCLA credits. We will update this page with information as soon as we have more information.

Register Here!
  Registration

Registration now open!

In-person early $185 (through Dec 9)
In-person late $235 (starts Dec 10)

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

Streaming only $95

Exhibitor $475

There will be an option to make a donation to the Jerry Sedlak Memorial Scholarship for $25, $50, or $100. This scholarship is available to OSU College of Forestry undergraduate students currently enrolled in either FE, FOM or FE/CE.
  Venue & Lodging
Boulder Falls Inn

505 Mullins Drive, Lebanon, OR

A room block has been arranged for 01/07-01/09:

$124.99 before taxes – for a standard room
$174.99 before taxes – for a suite
 
To book:
Call the front desk directly at 541-451-1000 and reference the Council on Forest Engineering event, and they will get you all set up in the block. 

Book by 12/09/2025

Event Agenda

 

7:00 am Registration opens & coffee available

8:00 am Introduction to WR COFE & Seminar

8:15 am Forest Road Construction

    • Advancements in Drilling and Blasting Technologies (Adam Anderson, Blake Seubert, and Alex Cote, Aggregate Resource Industries)
    • Designing Forest Roads for a Changing World (Matthew Dickie, Softree)

9:15 am Sponsor update

9:25 am Break (refreshments provided)

9:55 am Logging Innovation

    • Remote Mechanized Felling for the Future (Dale Ewers, DC Equipment NZ)
    • Development of the New Hybrid Electric Yarder (Tyson Lambert, T-MAR Industries)

10:55 am Break (refreshments provided)

11:00 am Forest Operations

    • Tether Assist/Cable Logging Productivity Study in California (Bridger Paradis, Cal Poly Humboldt)
    • MyFieldTracker: Geofencing Boundaries, Electronic Load Tickets, Machine Tracking (Nick Skrepetos, MyFieldTracker)

12:00 pm Sponsor update

12:10 pm LUNCH (provided)

12:40 pm Announcements: Jerry Sedlak Memorial Scholarship and the Ed and Sylvia Aulerich Scholarship

    • Student scholarship winner introductions
    • Ticket Raffle

1:40 pm WR COFE 2027 Program Development (all participants)

2:10 pm Sponsor update

2:20 pm Forestry Workforce

    • California Licensed Timber Operators Study (Hunter Harrill, Cal Poly Humboldt)
    • Oregon Forest Operations and Management Workforce Study (Jade Aguilar, ECONorthwest)

3:20 pm Conference wrap-up

3:25 pm Adjourn