Carbon Friendly Forestry Conference

The world continues to experience the frightening reality of the climate crisis: wildfire, hurricanes, historic flood events, drought, and the devastating effects of environmental racism. The urgency of this moment requires us to imagine new ways forward. The Pacific Northwest’s forests, if managed intentionally with this new reality in mind, can be powerful tools for carbon storage, ecosystem services, community resilience, and environmental justice. At WEC, we continue to explore and support both innovative and traditional approaches to ecological forestry, learning from the lived experiences of all of Washington’s communities.

Register Now!

Registration is open for the 2021 Carbon Friendly Forestry Conference

The conference will return as a virtual, two-day event this year on Oct. 26-27, 2021.

We are working to make the conference as accessible as possible, so many details, including a full agenda and formats and times of the conference sessions are forthcoming. The sessions will be spaced out over two days to reduce time demands and video-call fatigue for participants.

Join our annual event

WEC hosts the Carbon Friendly Forestry Conference, bringing together diverse thinkers—policy makers, academics, conservationists, tribal representatives and staff, forest owners, and business leaders—to feature approaches to forestry that sustain both ecological integrity and community wellbeing. We invite you to join us in an event that centers the management of the West Coast’s working forests around sustainability, equity, and resilience in the time of the climate crisis.

Past Conferences

You can find more information and materials from previous years below.

2020 virtual event – 2019 event – 2018 event – 2017 event

Event Contact

Sally Paul, State Forestlands Program Manager

sally@wecprotects.org