Dear Colleagues, The 2013 Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) Annual Meeting will be held in July 7-10, 2013, Missoula, MT, USA. Please see the email message below from Dr. Beth Dodson, Chair of the meeting. For more information about the meeting, please visit the following website: http://www.umt.edu/ce/cps/forestengineering/. Best regards, Woodam Chung Deputy Coordinator IUFRO Division 3 -----Original Message----- From: Dodson, Beth Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:43 PM To: CFC-All Subject: 2013 Council on Forest Engineering Annual Meeting Call for Papers (Please distribute widely) 2013 Council on Forest Engineering Annual Meeting Call for Papers I'm pleased to invite submission of abstracts for the 2013 Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) annual meeting to be held July 7-10 in Missoula, Montana, USA. The theme for the 2013 COFE meeting is "Forest Operations for a Changing Landscape". Technical presentations that address the following four sub-themes are sought. Other applied forest engineering and operations topics may also be accepted. -Maintaining a resilient forest industry; -Forest operations for fire management; -Impact of changing forestland ownership on forest operations; and -Preparing tomorrow's forest operations professional. Abstracts should be submitted via the conference web page at http://www.umt.edu/ce/cps/forestengineering/ and are due by February 15, 2013. Please keep the body of your abstract under 300 words. Authors will be notified of abstract acceptance by March 1 with full papers due by May 15, 2013. Complete instructions for authors will be sent at that time. All accepted final papers will be a maximum of seven pages in length, will be accompanied by an oral presentation, will be distributed electronically to all conference participants at the annual meeting, and will be available on-line to all COFE members (www.cofe.org). Opportunities for poster presentations will also be available. COFE is an international professional organization formed to foster the development of forest engineering in industry, government, and education in order to promote the best methods of managing and operating forests, both private and public. COFE serves the forestry profession by disseminating technical information about forest engineering. For more information, see the COFE website at: www.cofe.org. I look forward to seeing you in Montana! Beth Dodson, PE, PhD COFE 2013 Annual Meeting Chair Forestry Program Director Forest Management Department College of Forestry and Conservation University of Montana Elizabeth.dodson(a)umontana.edu