2025 Family Forest Landowners & Managers Conference
Building Resilience: Creating Strong Human, Forest,
& Wildlife Communities
The 37th annual Family Forest Landowners & Managers Conference is ‘in the books.” This year's gathering brought together 170 forest landowners and forestry professionals for comradery, learning, and the sharing of triumphs and tribulations.
It’s always difficult to take in all of the information that's provided during the conference, so we're
fortunate that many of our speakers have agreed to share their PowerPoint presentations with our attendees and IFOA members as a post-conference benefit.
You will find below the schedule of presentations as they occurred during the conference. Click on the underlined title to open a new page which will allow you to view the presentation PowerPoint as a handout.
We hope that this information is helpful to you as you continue on your forest management journey, and we hope it inspires you to mark your calendar for the 2026 conference on March 30-31, 2026!
Monday Morning:
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Keynote Address - Managed Forests Are Forever
Nick Smith, https://healthyforests.org/
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Changing of the Guard - What's in Store for
Forestry?
Jim Peterson, https://evergreenmagazine.com/
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Planning for the Future - IDL Looks Ahead
Julia Lauch, IDL State Forester
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Monday Afternoon:
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Top 5 Ways Forest Landowners Can Save on Taxes
Andrew Bosserman,
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Ryer Becker, University of Idaho
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What's a Forest Management Plan and Why Do I
Need One?
Eric Clippinger, Northwest Management Inc.
Brooke Durnin, American Forest Management
Mike Wolcott, Inland Forest Management
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What is the Forest Practices Act and Why Should
I care?
Jay Clark, Idaho Department of Lands
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Tuesday Morning:
WSU Demonstration Forest, Stevens County, WA
Andy Perleberg, Washington State University
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Establishing the Hatch Family Demonstration
Forest
Al Kyle, https://www.cedarmountainfarm.com
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Forestry Equipment for the Small Forest
Landowner - A Waterfowl Farm Case Study
Marrion Newsam Banks, IFOA EVP​
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Fighting Fire, Bugs and Disease
Paul Buckland, Inland Empire Paper
Isabella Valdez, Idaho Department of Lands
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Good Neighbor Authority and Shared
Stewardship Update
Ara Andrea, Idaho Department of Lands
Jon Songster, Idaho Department of Lands
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Tuesday Afternoon:
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Raptors of Idaho Forests
Janie and Don VeltKamp, Birds of Prey NW
https://www.birdsofpreynorthwest.org/
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Quadrennial Water Quality Audits
Hawk Stone, Idaho Department of
Environmental Quality
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What Communism Did to Russian Far East
Forestry and the Value of Private Lands
Phil Aune, Society of American Foresters
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Porcupines, Beavers and Bats, Oh My!
Ken Bevis, Washington Department of Natural
Resources
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