The Umpqua SAF Chapter is hosting an in person meeting on September 30 at Umpqua Community College in the Lang Center (Southern Oregon Wine Institute building.) A professional panel of three will be answering questions for the college of forestry students followed by dinner and mingling. **Though this is an in-person event, masks will be […]

The Umpqua SAF Chapter is hosting tour of DR Johnson Sawmill and Lam Plant in Riddle, Oregon, for their October meeting. Lunch will be included. **This will also likely be a masked event.** CFEs will be available for attendees.

For the Portland SAF Chapter's November meeting, Paul Anderson, station director of the USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station will give a talk title  "Forest Service Research: Informing natural resources management and policy." All foresters and their guests are invited regardless of SAF membership! Program agenda: 5:30 p.m. social time, 6:00 p.m. dinner ($20), 6:30 […]

For North Puget Sound's November chapter meeting, our guest speaker is Susan Prichard, research scientist at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington. Susan will share a presentation from her recent publication on climate change adaptation for western forests. You can read her comments confronting misinformation about the need for forest thinning […]

For the Umpqua SAF Chapter's November meeting, join us for a panel discussion on log marketing and buying. The panelists are Ryan Bronson, timber manager with C & D Lumber, Dave Sutton, marketing manager with Lone Rock Timber, and Toby Mills, log buyer with Swanson Group. There is an in-person and virtual option available for […]

South Puget Sound's monthly chapter meeting will feature some upfront news at the chapter level followed by a talk by Cam Brown about using LiDAR to manage forests. Cam Brown is a professional forester from British Columbia and a partner at Forsite Consulting. He earned a MSc in Forest Engineering at Oregon State University. CFE […]