Events

Plans are in the works for a Tree School Field Day at Hopkins Demonstration Forest this fall! Learning opportunities will include field classes, demonstrations and hands-on activities. The wide variety of forest types and forest management demonstration areas across the 140 acres at Hopkins provide diverse educational opportunities. Likely topics include: young stand thinning and […]

Registration is now open for the 2022 OFIC Annual Meeting on October 9-11 at the Sunriver Resort in Sunriver, Oregon. To view program highlights and register for the event - online this year - please visit this link (be sure to select a dinner option for Monday night under add-ons). As usual, OFIC has held a […]

Many science topics are increasingly difficult to discuss due to rising polarization. Opinions on climate change, vaccine use, and more may be aligned with identities and values that are hard to work through, particularly when your own values may be different from, or even conflict with, those of your audience. During this 3-hour virtual workshop, […]

Wildfires in the western United States are becoming more frequent and more damaging to affected communities. Increased damages due to wildfire owe in part to a growing number of homes, businesses, and other structures in wildfires’ paths. The past several decades have seen a large increase in the number of US homes in areas known […]

Researchers from the disciplines of structural engineering, architecture and wood science discuss current mass timber research activities. Hosted in Corvallis, OR, at Oregon state University (OSU), the 2022 TDI Mass Timber Research Symposium is a half-day event dedicated to sharing the breadth of mass timber research projects and faculty expertise coming from TDI's faculty collaborators […]

On October 26th, you can join NNRG and King County staff on a guided driving tour through Taylor Mountain Forest where you'll see a demonstration of climate adaptation techniques at work, along with other approaches King County is using to transition this former industrial plantation to ecological forest management. Since it acquired these lands from […]