2025 Meeting Info

Join us for our annual meeting and conference, held this year in Seattle, WA at University of Washington on May 15 and 16! 

Our conference theme this year is “Long Rotations and Set-aside Forests: Economic and Environmental Implications“.

Registration is now open.

The deadline to submit abstracts is April 15, 2025: Submit an Abstract here.

We encourage student abstracts and papers as an important component of the WFE annual meeting. Cash prizes for best student presentations and publication of conference abstracts will be supported by the Journal of Forest Business Research. Early abstract submissions are encouraged, and are due no later than April 15, 2025. Session themes may include:

  • Bioenergy and bioproducts
  • Public lands issues
  • Economics of wildland fire
  • Innovations in the forest sector
  • Markets and trade
  • Non-market values and valuation
  • And more!

The conference begins at 1pm on Thursday, May 15 and will conclude at 2pm on Friday, May 16 with a plenary and concurrent sessions each day. After the meeting on Thursday, there will be a sponsored social at the Watertown Hotel.

Attendees are responsible for securing own lodging. A small room block will be available shortly for Thursday night. Information on the hotel block is here.

Attendees are responsible for securing own lodging, book soon!

Please send any program questions or comments to Indroneil Ganguly (indro@[email protected])    

Contact Us

2025 WFE President
Indroneil Ganguly
email: [email protected]

WFE Secretary/Treasurer
Kate Marcille
email: [email protected]