Thriving together: Fostering Resilient Forests and Flourishing Wildlife
February 5-7, 2025 | Salem Convention Center | Salem, Oregon
The Joint Meeting is a three-day event on wildlife and forestry science and management which includes technical presentations, focused symposia, professional interaction forums, plenary sessions, and student mentoring events. These events provide opportunities for forestry and wildlife students and professionals to learn about, discuss, and potentially influence diverse aspects of forestry and wildlife conservation and management.
Early bird registration has been extended to January 17, 2025!
OSAF members can register for our annual meeting at the ORTWS website – https://oregonchapterofthewildlifesociety.wildapricot.org/event-5887064. You do not have to be an ORTWS member, just click the registration button at the bottom of the page. To see the program schedule click here: https://ortws.org/events/annual-conference/
https://ortws.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-ORTWS_OSAF-Joint-Meeting-Program-FINAL.pdf
We will not have a printed copy of our full program schedule available for all joint meeting attendees. Please print your own copy of this schedule if you would like one at the joint meeting — we will not have them available.
2025 Sponsorship Pledge and Display Space Information
The Joint Meeting is a three-day event on wildlife science and management, which includes technical presentations, focused symposia, professional interaction forums, plenary sessions, and student mentoring events. These events provide opportunities for wildlife students and professionals to learn about, discuss, and potentially influence diverse aspects of wildlife conservation and management. If you have already decided to sponsor the 2025 Joint Meeting in Salem, OR, please click the form here for more sponsorship details and display space information.
There is a block of rooms available at The Grand Hotel in Salem. Call the Toll-Free Reservation line (877) 540-7800 and identify yourself as with the Wildlife Society or use this link to book room reservations.
Negotiated rates are $189 for Deluxe Double Queen, $179 for Deluxe King. Note: The Grand Hotel Block expires January 5, 2025.
Are you a student who is presenting a poster or talk at the joint OSAF-ORTWS meeting this February?
We want to let you know you are in the running for an award!
All students are automatically in the running for a presentation award based on category:
Best Graduate Poster Award
Best Undergraduate Poster Award
Les Eberhardt Student Presentation Award (oral talk)
Dimick Professional Presentation Award (best overall oral talk, student or professional)
This means you will be judged by 2-3 judges during the conference. For oral talks, you will not know who the judges are, but you will have the option of receiving the judges’ notes and comments, if you desire. For poster presentations the team of judges will come around sometime during the poster session, identify themselves, and ask for you to give a short (2-minute or less) explanation of your poster. Oral talks are judged on the following categories: Background/Introduction, Data Presentation & Interpretation, Discussion & Conclusions, Presentation: Organization and Presentation: Communication. Posters are judged on these categories: Background, Data Presentation & Interpretation, Poster Quality, Oral Presentation and Impact on audience.
We are excited to have high student involvement in this year’s annual meeting and look forward to seeing you in February. Please reach out tojacob.putney@oregonstate.edu or VanessaSchroeder@ortws.org if you have any questions or concerns.
