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Sessions on December 6, 2024:

7:00-8:30 am

Breakfast 

Space: Tamarack Hall

7:30-8:30 am

Registration and Refreshments

Space: The Reflections Gallery 

8:30 am

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Presenters: Rachel Baker, WCA’s forest program director; and Alyssa Macy, WCA CEO 

Space: The Summit Auditorium 

8:45 am

Tribal Treaty Rights and Natural Resources 

Presenter: Vanessa Castle

Space: The Summit Auditorium 

9:10 am

Extending Timber Harvest Rotations: Update on Carbon Storage Math and Supply Transition Scenarios

Presenters: Dr. Kate Anderson, Court Stanley, Dr. Paula Swedeen

Space: The Summit Auditorium 

10:20 am

Forest Management and Carbon Impact Assessment Panel, including: 

  • Impact Assessment Paradigms, Standards, and Innovations for High-Resolution Monitoring and Reporting of Working Forests Behind Wood Product Supply Chains.  
    • Dr. David Diaz
  • Mapping and Monitoring Forest Climate Benefits: the New York Forest Carbon Assessment. 
    • Dr. Colin Beier
  • Forest Species and Structure Modeling for Carbon Trading and Monitoring
    • Luke Rogers 

Moderator: Stephanie Carlisle

Space: The Summit Auditorium 

11:20 am

Up in Smoke? Stabilizing Carbon Storage in Fire Adapted Forests

Presenter: Dr. Kathryn Duffy 

Space: The Summit Auditorium 

12:00 pm

Lunch

Space: Tamarack Hall 

1:00 pm

Natural Climate Solutions Panel

Presenters: Csenka Favorini-Csorba, Paul Jewell, Vera Pfeiffer, Steve Hinton 

Space: The Summit Auditorium 

2:10 pm

Breakout Session 1. Sustainable Mass Timber: From Forestry & Fabrication to Data-Driven Design 

Presenters: Jesce Walz, Hugh Grady 

Space: Cedar I

2:10 pm

Breakout Session 2. Funding Conservation with Forest Carbon Projects

Presenters: Bettina von Hagen, Ian Sinks, Andrew Taylor

Space: Cedar II

3:30 pm

A New Paradigm for Utilizing Undervalued Species in Engineered Timber Homes

Presenters: Geoffrey Wood, Erik Poulin, Malloree Weinheimer 

Space: The Summit Auditorium

4:30 pm

Commissioner of Public Lands-elect Priorities

Presenter: King County Council Chair and Commissioner-elect Dave Upthegrove

Space: The Summit Auditorium

4:55 pm

Closing Remarks

Presenter: Rachel Baker

Space: The Summit Auditorium

5:00-7:30 pm

Carbon Conference Reception & Bullitt Prize Award Ceremony

Space: The Summit Auditorium