2009 Annual Meeting & Dinner
March 13, 2009

The Coos Curry Small Woodlands Association 2009 Dinner and Annual Meeting was held in March 2009 at the Red Lion in Coos Bay.

See 2009 Annual Meeting Minutes

The Program was quite interesting, given the current economic times. Tristan Huff, the new OSU Extension Forester, presented an overview of the Coos/Curry OSU Extension Program. Gary Lettman, ODF Economist, gave us an overview of current and future timber value trends. Following that, Gordon Culbertson from Forest2Market talked about timber value trends, giving a regional perspective on the past, present and future.

All the information was very helpful in providing good advice to help guide small woodlands owners through the timber-price downturn, and offered and predictors on when we might see some recovery.

The Annual Meeting was also held (full minutes are available on the website). Elections were held and Greg Stone, Bob Beers and Roy Hendricks were re-elected to office.

Revisions to bylaws (which hadn’t been updated since 1971) were voted on and passed by the members present. The revised bylaws are more in alignment with the updated state-level bylaws and consistent with the actual practices of the CCSWA.

In addition, a proposal was made to sponsor a scholarship. After some discussion, the proposal was referred to committee. The Scholarship Committee, comprised of Jason Wartnik, Ron Stuntzner and Bob Mahaffey, is now working on the guidelines and will be presenting them to the Board within the next few months.

Plan to attend the next Dinner and Annual Meeting, scheduled for February 19, 2010!