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.
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Full professional membership in COFE is $15 per year and a student membership is only $5. Membership supports the sharing of information, meetings, student and professional awards, networking tools, and more.
2016 Annual Meeting
The 2016 COFE Annual meeting will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA on September 19 - 21, 2016. The meeting will coordinate with the Canadian Woodlands Forum, The faculty of Forestry at UBC, and the DEMO International Conference. This...
2015 Annual Meeting in Lexington Kentucky
COFE Annual Meeting Registration NOW OPEN! Early Registration Before June 1st! Register today at http://cofe.ca.uky.edu/ For the first time, the 2015 COFE annual meeting will be hosted by the Department of Forestry at the University of Kentucky. It...
Western Region COFE Seminar Jan 15, 2015
Details have been released for the 2015 WR.COFE meeting! The seminar will be January 15, 2015 at the Valley River Inn, in Eugene, Oregon. The full schedule and registration information are posted here
Forest Machine Technology Conference – Call for Posters
Call for Posters FPInnovations, Canada’s R&D institute for the forest products industry, is proud to host the first Forest Machine Technology Conference (FMTC), to be held at the Hyatt Regency Montreal Hotel, on April 21-23, 2015 , in collaboration with...
2015 COFE Annual Meeting – Save the Date
The 2015 COFE Annual Meeting will be held in Lexington, Kentucky July 19-22, 2015. We will be hosted by Marco Contreras and the University of Kentucky. The theme of the meeting will be "Engineering solutions for non-industrial private forest...
Western Region COFE Seminar on 1/16/2014
The WR.COFE group will be meeting January 16, 2014 at the Valley River Inn in Eugene, Oregon. The one day seminar theme has been set as "Improving Forest Harvesting Operations" WR.COFE is a regional chapter (western United States and British Columbia) of the...
Recent Reseach Publications
- Ergonomics in CTL harvesting – assisting systems and future visions
- Use of Bluetooth low energy and ultra-wideband sensor systems to detect people in forest operations danger zones
- Log truck crash rates associated with 43-t weight permits in Georgia, USA
- A neutrosophic decision-making framework to identify and prioritize limiting factors in wood harvesting
- Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary
- Productivity and costs of a tracked excavator-based processor at the cable yarder landing in the North-western Italian Alps
- Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance