2026 Family Forest Landowners & Managers Conference
Navigating a Changing World: What Are the Trade-Offs?
The 38th Annual Family Forest Landowners & Managers Conference is officially in the books! This year’s event brought together 185 forest landowners and forestry professionals for a rewarding time of camaraderie, learning, and sharing both successes and challenges.
With so much valuable information presented, it can be difficult to take it all in during the conference. Fortunately, many of our speakers have generously agreed to share their PowerPoint presentations as a post-conference benefit for attendees and IFOA members.
Below, you’ll find the conference schedule as it unfolded. Simply click on an underlined presentation title to open a new page where you can view the PowerPoint as a handout.
We hope these resources support you in your ongoing forest management journey—and inspire you to mark your calendar for next year’s conference, March 22–23, 2027!
Monday Morning:
Keynote Address - Top Ten Family Forest Owner Concerns
Keith Argow,
National Woodland Owners Assoc.
What are Idaho Forest Landowners' Top 10 Concerns?
Hailey Frank-Bennett,
IDL Land Resource Specialist
Increased Federal Harvests: What's the plan?
Timothy Gilloon, USFS
State of the State: What's ahead for IDL?
Jon Songster, IDL Good Neighbor Authority
Mike MicManus, IDL Fire Division
Monday Lunch:
Certificates of Fire Resistance and Insurance
Tyler Drechsel, Northern Lakes Fire District
Monday Afternoon:
Locating a Forestry Professional
Ryer Becker, University of Idaho
Forest Operations and Technology Degree
Robert Keefe, University of Idaho
Prescribed Fire and the Forest
Heather Heward, Idaho Prescribed Fire Council
Wildfire Preparedness & Ways to Mitigate Insurance Impacts
Dean Cameron, Idaho Dept. of Insurance
Tuesday Morning:
Forest Health: Bugs & Crud Update
Hannah Hallowell, IDL Forest Health
LiDAR and Family Forest Landowners
Eric Clippinger, Northwest Management, Inc.
The Lost Apple Project
David Benscoter, Lost Apple Project
Managing & Reporting Timber Trespass
Jay Clark, IDL
New Horizons for Wood Products
Karl Englund, WSU
Tuesday Lunch:
Overview of the Prescribed Fire Forecast Tool
Sally Hunter & Tami Aslett, DEQ
Tuesday Afternoon:
Growing Your Own Seedlings
Lauren King, Benewah County Extension
Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) & Forest Landowners
Erik Greenwell & Caitlyn Jacobs, Y2Y
Co-Existing Peacefully with Wildlife