Sessions on December 8, 2025:
7:00-8:00 am
Registration & Breakfast
Space: Reflections Gallery
8:00 am
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Presenters: Rachel Baker, WCA’s forest program director
Space: The Summit Auditorium
8:15 – 9:25 am
Tribal Forestland Acquisition & Management Panel
Presenters: Joe Sambataro, Phil Rigdon, Daniel Ebling, Estakio Beltran
Space: The Summit Auditorium
9:40 – 10:25 am
Longer Rotation Forestry in Practice at Port Blakely
Presenter: Gareth Waugh, Dr. Paula Swedeen
Space: The Summit Auditorium
10:30 – 10:55 am
Management & Conservation of Old Forests in the PNW: Reflections from a Volgenau Climate Initiative Retreat
Presenters: Rachel Baker, Derek Churchill, Dave Walters, Sarah Billig
Space: The Summit Auditorium
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Breakout Session 1 | Amazon’s Regional Criteria for Sustainable Mass Timber Sourcing
Presenter: Kristen Dotson, Jacob Dunn, Paul Vanderford, Seth Zuckerman
Space: Cedar I
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Breakout Session 2 | Catalyzing Carbon Financing to Accelerate Place-Based, Nature-Based Enterprise
Presenter: Dr. Tanushree Biswas, Trishala Thakur
Space: Cedar II
12:15 – 1:45 pm
Lunch
Space: Tamarack Hall
1:45 – 2:45 pm
Breakout Session 3 | Forest Management in Wood Product Accounting Using the TIMBER Model
Presenters: Steph Carlisle, Dr. David Diaz
Space: Cedar I
1:45 – 2:45 pm
Breakout Session 4 | Accelerating Prescribed Fire: The Role of Prescribed Burn Associations in Washington
Presenters: Lucas King, Colin Sternagel
Space: Cedar II
3:00 – 4:05 pm
Stewardship Economy for Forest Health & Rural Resilience
Moderator: Laurel Harkness, Mayor Dan Rankin
Space: The Summit Auditorium
4:10 – 4:50 pm
Commissioner of Public Lands Updates & Priorities
Presenter: Dave Upthegrove, Public Lands Commissioner of Washington
Space: The Summit Auditorium
4:50 – 5:00 pm
Closing Remarks
Presenter: Rachel Baker
Space: The Summit Auditorium
5:00-7:30 pm
Carbon Conference Reception
Space: Reflections Gallery
