The 2025 Meeting was held this year in Seattle, WA at University of Washington, May 15 and 16. The conference theme this year was “Long Rotations and Set-aside Forests: Economic and Environmental Implications“.

2025 Presentations

Does Contracting for Labor-Intensive Forestry Work Advance Economic Equity in the Pacific West, USA?

Kamana Poudel, Mindy S. Crandall, Heidi-Huber Stearns, Emily Jane Davis

CONSIDERATIONS IN MODELING HARVESTED WOOD PRODUCT MITIGATION STRATEGIES

Greg Latta, University of Idaho

Long Rotations and Set-Aside Forests in the Pacific Northwest

Andres Susaeta, Oregon State University

Matching Auctions for Cut Blocks

Hugh Scorah, UBC Forestry

Small Forest Landowner Perspective on “Long rotations and set aside forests: Economic and environmental implications.”

Elaine Oneil, PhD, Washington Farm Forestry Association

Economic tradeoff of alternative forest management activities to enhance carbon sequestration efforts in Pennsylvania and Maryland

Shivan Gc, Chad Papa, Kylie Clay, Michigan State University

Future Forest Regime Impacts on the Evergreen bough Industry of the Pacific Northwest

Alec Solemslie, University of Washington

Uncertainty and Extended Rotations

Hugh Scorah, UBC Forestry

Western Forest Economists: Washington Forest Products Roundtable

Chris Page, Ruckelshaus Center

Enhancing CLT Production Proficiency through Supply Chain Optimization

Lily Yang, University of Washington

EVALUATING THE COSTS AND CREDIT MARKET DYNAMICS OF OREGON’S CLEAN FUELS PROGRAM

Chukwuemeka Valentine Okolo, Andres Susaeta, Mindy Crandall, John Sessions

Historical Context and Contemporary Snapshots of Pacific Northwest Forest Industries

Anna Maher, PhD, Abigail Kaminski, Harper Thomson

Optimal Forest Management of Douglas-fir in Western Oregon: Stochastic Prices, Carbon Sequestration, and Wildfire Risk

Hsu Y. Kyaw, Andres L. Susaeta, Mindy S. Crandall

The Resource Curse and U.S. Timber Harvest in Western Counties

Luke Koch

Historical Context and Contemporary Snapshots of Pacific Northwest Forest Industries: Highlights from the Production, Prices, Employment, and Trade Report, 1958-2023

Anna Maher, PhD, Abigail Kaminski, Harper Thompson

Timber yield decline, recovery, & augmentation in transition from short to long rotations

Seth Zuckerman, Jaal Mann

Harvest & Replant: Economic & Environmental Implications of Long Rotation Forestry and Forest Set-Asides

Jason Spadaro

Up in smoke: costs and constraints of pile burning in western forests

Jake Barker

Examining Information Sharing Dynamics through Network Analysis in the Western Hardwood Manufacturing Sector

Victoria Diederichs, RPF

Understanding WA DNR

Duane Emmons

A few thoughts on rotations: The long & the short of it

Seth Zuckerman

Extended rotations and net climate benefits?

Dr. Indroneil Ganguly, Lieke Droog, & Dr. Francesca Pierobon

Harvest or Set-Aside? A Comparative Carbon Analysis Grounded in Real World Data

Elaine Oneiil, PhD, Director of Science, CORRIM

Competitiveness & Sustainability in the Forest Sector

O’Kelly Acumen

Harvest or Set-Aside? A Comparative Carbon Analysis Grounded in Real World Data

Elaine Oneil, PhD

Economic tradeoff of alternative forest management activities to enhance carbon sequestration efforts in PA and MD

Raju Pokharel, Shivan Gc, Chad Papa, Kylie Clay

The economic logic of thinning illustrated by a Sierra mixed-conifer field trial

John Foppert, Rob York, Emily Cieslewitz

Long Rotations and Set-Aside Forests in the PNW

Andres Susaeta