2018 Western Region COFE Seminar – Improving Forest Harvesting Operations
Location: Valley River Inn, Eugene, OR
0700 – 0815 REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (Provided)
0815 – 0830 Introduction to WR.COFE & Seminar – Jeff Wimer, Chair, WR.COFE & Oregon State University FERM Department
SESSION 1: Forestry Drones
0830-0900 Drones for Assistance in Cable Logging Operations – Mark Standley (Invited), LogSafe Inc.
0900 – 0930 Applications of UAV in Forest Monitoring: a Regeneration Survey Case and an Ice Damage Case – Bogdan Strimbu, Oregon State University
SESSION 2: Tether Assist and Ground/Soil Impacts
0930 – 1000 Mobility of Tethered Equipment on Steep Slopes: Soil-Machine Interactions – Ben Leschinsky, Oregon State University
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 Dept. of Natural Resources
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, Oregon State University
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, OSU Courtesy Faculty
1550 – 1620 After the Fire – Don Persyn, Roseburg Forest
1620 – 1630 Wrap-Up and Evaluation – Jeff Wimer