Technical Program

Sunday, April 1
Optional field trip in the Oregon Coast Range to see management and harvesting activities on the OSU College Forest and the Forest Engineering Department Student Logging Training Program. Field presentations and discussion topics include geology and forest road movement, visual management and the storm damage experiences with shelterwood harvesting prescriptions, forest road management activities, fish passage, research on value-adding to harvesting operations, multispan skyline yarding, and commercial thinning cable layout.

Monday, April 2
Optional field trip to the Oregon Coast or Cascade mountains. Participants will have a choice of two field trips to view active harvesting operations and discuss contemporary forest harvesting issues. The field trips are being planned for participants to learn about the geology and forest resources around the Willamette Valley mountain ranges, to hear presentations from forest industry, government agencies and logging contractors on practical harvesting experiences, to learn about on-going research, and to hear about local actions related to global competitiveness. The planning committee is organizing field trip stops at active skyline and helicopter operations; road construction operations; and other road and water related projects. The specific field trip itinerary is dependent on the logistics with active harvesting operations at the time of the field trip.

There will be a meet and greet opening reception at the Hilton Garden Inn’s University Club on Monday evening.

Tuesday, April 3
AM: Welcome and symposium introduction

Keynote Presentations: Global Competitiveness: Implications and Sustainable
	Approaches for Mountain Forest Harvesting....
	....The Workforce:
		Mr. Rich Wininger Vice President, Western Timberlands Weyerhaeuser Company, USA
	....Emerging Technologies:
		Ms. Isabelle Bergkvist Skogforsk, Sweden
	….The Environment:
		Dr. Jeff Barrett Vice President Scotia-Pacific LLC, USA
	….Global Competitiveness:
		Mr. Bob Izlar Director Center for Forest Business University of Georgia

One-hour break-out facilitated discussions with keynote presenters and others on
the topics presented above

PM: Concurrent Technical Sessions (Tues PM, Wed AM, and Thur AM) in the
following topic areas

1. Logging operation innovations that reduce cost or improve value
2. Forest roads and transportation management
3. Harvest planning and quality control assessments
4. Environmental quality in mountain logging
5. Forest biomass utilization for energy and biofuels
6. Workforce recruitment, training, retention, and safety

For a list of speakers and topics, Click here!

Early Evening: All-Symposium Reception with Poster Session and Vendor Displays

Wednesday, April 4
AM: Continue Concurrent Technical Sessions (see Tuesday, April 3 for topic areas)

PM: Concurrent Workshops. Participants will have a choice of attending two 2-hour workshops in the following areas:

1. Overview of skyline logging systems and applications of LOGGERPC for payload analysis in harvest planning and logging operations

2. Yarder guyline configuration and guyline loading: Assessment and training demonstrations/discussions with the aid of a “Berger” model tower and guyline load cells

3. Demonstration of affordable GPS receivers and applications in forest operations planning and logging operations layout

4. Forest roads: Fish passage and stream crossing design/performance

5. Forest road surfacing: Issues, fundamentals, design, operations, maintenance and repair

6. Integrating landscape level and harvest project level planning: Demonstration and applications of “new” harvest planning software such as GUYLINE PC

7. The forest operations workforce: A panel presentation and discussion on programmatic issues, proposed solutions and experiences with changing workforce dynamics and cultures, business management needs, recruitment, training, retention, and safety

8. Forest biomass harvesting challenges and opportunities (to be confirmed). A panel presentation and discussion on the “big picture” of forest biomass harvesting, and practical approaches to reducing fire hazard and utilizing small stems and logging slash for bioenergy and biofuels.

Evening: All-symposium banquet and entertainment

Thursday, April 5
AM: Continue Concurrent Technical Sessions (see Tuesday, April 3 for topic areas)

Symposium concludes at noon

Thursday PM – Friday (April 5 & 6)
Optional field trip to the Hinkle Creek Paired Watershed Study. At Hinkle Creek, Roseburg Forest Products, a group of researchers and private industrial, state, and federal forestland managers collaborated to develop a state-of-the-art paired watershed study. The current harvest schedule allowed comparisons before and after harvest as well as between harvested and unharvested streams and for small and large streams with and without fish. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from the researchers and other cooperators about this current study that is designed to address cumulative environmental effects of contemporary forest management activities in headwater basins of Western Oregon. For further information on the Hinkle Creek Study,Click here

For further information, please contact:
Dr. Loren Kellogg, Skyline Symposium Chair
Lemetta 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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