Conference Overview

Mountain forests are valuable resources providing wood, water, wildlife habitat, recreation and scenic quality. Meeting society's demands for wood and wood products while maintaining and enhancing those scenic, protective and productive values requires skillful application of forest engineering knowledge.

Beginning in 1969 and approximately every three years, the accumulated knowledge and technology gained by experience and research of private industry, contractors, and public organizations in the Pacific Northwest, and around the world, are disseminated at the International Mountain Logging and Pacific Northwest Skyline Symposium. Traditionally the event has been hosted by rotation with Oregon State University; the University of Washington; and the University of British Columbia and the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC). In 2007, the symposium is hosted by Oregon State University and will be held in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO Division 3) is a co-sponsor, with the objective of helping to coordinate mountain logging research activities throughout the world.

Conference Goals:
The goal of this symposium is to bring together a diverse group of people associated with mountain logging to exchange ideas, share new information and technology, and seek solutions to operational and environmental challenges. The symposium itinerary will focus around specific themes including technical, economic, environmental, and social issues with harvest planning, forest road management, and logging.

Who Should Attend:
Anyone involved with forest operations including logging managers and contractors, machine manufacturers and vendors, private sector resource managers, consultants, researchers, academicians, and others interested in the environmental effects of harvesting. The program will contain subject matter of interest to people engaged in both coastal and interior operations in the Pacific Northwest as well as other mountainous regions in the USA and internationally. The symposium will provide an opportunity for participants to learn and share new ideas not only from local experiences but also with an exchange of new ideas from around the world.

Society of American Foresters CFE Credits and Professional-Logger Program credits will be available for conference participants.

For further information, please contact:
Dr. Loren Kellogg, Skyline Symposium Chair
Lematta Professor of Forest Engineering
Department of Forest Engineering
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
Phone: (541) 737-2836
Email: loren.kellogg@oregonstate.edu

Ms. Heather Rangner, Conference Manager
Oregon State University Conference Services
100 LaSells Stewart Center
Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
Phone: (541) 737-6439
Fax: (541) 737-9315
Email: heather.rangner@oregonstate.edu

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