Dear IUFRO Division 3 Members,

Dear IUFRO Division 3 Officeholders,

Greetings from IUFRO Division 3.  First, we hope you and your family are keeping well during these strange and uncertain times.  The COVID-19 pandemic has created a truly unprecedented situation that affects us all.  Our hearts go out to anyone who has been impacted by the virus, either directly or indirectly. 

With the hope that the COVID-19 pandemic will be behind us soon, we want to reach out and share our plans for the major Division 3 events around the world in the next four years.

• Year 2021 – Joint COFE/FORMEC Annual Meeting, Corvallis, OR, USA (Dates 6-9 June)
• Year 2022 – 7^th Forest Engineering Conference (FEC) and All-D3 meeting, Florence, Italy (Dates TBD)
• Year 2023 – International Conference on Forest Engineering, Management and Products, Harbin, China  (Dates TBD)
• Year 2024 – 26^th IUFRO World Congress, Stockholm, Sweden (Dates 23-29 June)

In addition, there are several other Division 3-sponsored events scheduled this and next year. For details, please visit the IUFRO event calendar website (https://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/current/).

• International Scientific Conference on Modern Technologies and Engineering in Sustainable Forest Utilization, Krakow, Poland, 21-23 September, 2020
• University of Belgrade – Faculty of Forestry 100^th Anniversary Congress, Belgrade, Serbia, 22-25 September, 2020
• International Scientific Conference "Forestry: Bridge to the Future", Sofia, Bulgaria, 5-8 May, 2021
• IUFRO Division 3 Doctoral Student Conference, Corvallis, OR, USA, 1-9 June, 2021
• 19th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2021), Estes Park, Colorado, USA, 8-11 August, 2021
• IUFRO Regional Conference, Moscow, Russia, 24-26 September, 2021

Please stay safe and healthy, we look forward to meeting again in person when the COVID-19 situation resolves around the world.  Also, please don’t forget, despite the many difficulties we all face, we are still connected, and we are still together! 

Best wishes,

Woodam Chung, Luc Lebel, Yaoxiang Li, Ola Lindroos

Division 3 Coordinator and Deputy Coordinators