When
International Conference of COFE-FETEC 2023
Forest Operations: A Tool for Forest Management
May 23 – 25, 2023
High Country Conference Center, Flagstaff, Arizona
The 45th Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) meeting will be hosted by Northern Arizona University, USDA Forest Service and FETEC (Forest Engineering and Technologies) on 23-25 May 2023 in Flagstaff, Arizona. The conference aims to offer opportunities for sharing new initiatives, innovations, and technology development in forest operations and networking with researchers, practitioners, and shareholders from industry.
During the three-day meeting, you will have the opportunity to discuss the most recent scientific research and professional works about the following topics:
- Training and education for forest operations workforce development
- Ecological restoration and forest sustainability
- Steep slope operations
- Operational logistics in harvesting and transportation
- Utilization of small-diameter trees and biomass
- Precision forestry
- New technology development and innovation in forest engineering
- Forest operations in sensitive zones
- General topics in forest engineering
- COFE reflections: sharing wisdom and passion for forest engineering
- Field trip to view active forest operations and processing facilities in Arizona
Full papers may be published in Conference Proceedings (non-refereed) and/or two refereed journals (International Journal of Forest Engineering and European Journal Forest Engineering).
More info: https://eri.nau.edu/2023-cofe-conference/