Letter from the 2024 ILC President - Mac Lefebvre

Welcome to the 84th Annual

Intermountain Logging Conference and Equipment Show

On behalf of the entire ILC Board of Directors team, I would like to welcome you to the 84th annual Intermountain Logging Conference!

  The team has done a great job in assembling an agenda comprised of thought leaders from across the forest products industry.   As our industry is subject to the ever changing tides of weather, markets, and people, our mission strives to provide value to you in your daily decision making.  The theme this year is ‘Technology and Diversification’ which will help you build a more all-weather business, and provide insights to guide your evolution and growth.   

  We are excited to have Keynote Speaker Chace Barber of Edison Motors discuss electric log trucks and advancements in that technology.  In addition, the agenda includes safety discussion as well as firsthand accounts of lessons learned in the rapidly evolving cable assist operations, and much more!

  Please take time to check out the Equipment lot as well as visit our Exhibitors, hopefully you run into some old friends along the way.

A sincere thank you to all of those who have helped make the ILC what it is today, including exhibitors, equipment dealers, and sponsors, and last but not least, the entire ILC team.  We couldn’t do it without you!

 Enjoy the show! 

Mac Lefebvre

2024 ILC President

Letter from the 2023 ILC President

Welcome to the 83rd Annual

Intermountain Logging Conference and Equipment Show

  On behalf of the ILC Board of Directors and staff, I would like to welcome you all to the 83rd Annual Intermountain Logging Conference!

  The board and staff have committed considerable time and energy in building out a conference that meets our mission of maintaining and enhancing the forest products industry serving the nation and the Intermountain West region.   Our theme this year is “It’s a New Day in the Woods”, and the conference includes the latest advancements in the business along with a great opportunity to network with professionals that work in the industry every day.  We are also excited to welcome Blake Manley as our key note speaker.  Blake is the Sweet Home High School Natural Resources Teacher, Founder of Manley Jobs, and Chair of Oregon Natural Resources Educators Association.

  Regardless of how you fit in to the intermountain forest products industry, there is no doubt you have experienced many changes over the past decade.  These changes have created challenges and opportunities for each of us.  We hope that this year’s conference helps each of you to better take on the challenges and fully leverage the opportunities to be successful, much like every new day in the woods.

  I would like to sincerely thank our board and staff, exhibitors, sponsors, equipment dealers, and forest products companies for their support of the conference.  Without all of us working together, supporting this event, we wouldn’t be celebrating the 83rd year of this conference!

  Thank you for joining us at the conference in Spokane.  We look forward to seeing familiar and new faces, catching up on the past and future, and sharing some time together celebrating the great industry we are all a part of.

Bill Frings

2023 ILC President

Letter from the 2022 ILC President

Welcome to the 82nd Annual

Intermountain Logging Conference and Equipment Show

On behalf of our Co-President, Erika Sussi (G. Ikola Logging), board of directors, and staff, my wife Bonnie and I would like to welcome you to the 82nd Annual Intermountain Logging Conference held at the Mirabeau Hotel and Convention Center.

This year’s Vice President and Program Chairman, Bill Frings (Weyerhaeuser Corp.), chose the theme “Roadmap for the Future”. The next few hours will be filled with information to guide and direct us down the right pathway for success in our forestry endeavors. We look forward to a fun-filled agenda and opportunities to view the latest equipment on earth. It is also a time to meet old friends and make new ones.

Thank you for supporting the 82nd ILC.

Elwayne Henderson

Co-President 2022

Letter From the 2020 ILC President

Welcome to the 82nd Intermountain Logging Conference & Equipment Show

Erika Sussi
ILC President

On behalf of the ILC Board of Directors I would like to welcome you to the 2020 Conference! We are excited to spend the next few days in camaraderie and learning. Vice president Elwayne Henderson’s program, “Sustainability with Stability” is very well thought out and relevant as the forest products industry continues to adjust to current conditions.

The program features many interesting and thought provoking topics and speakers as well as plenty of time scheduled to visit the vendor displays and outside equipment dealers. As always there are several opportunities to catch up with old friends and meet new ones as well!

Once again, welcome and I sincerely hope you find the conference enjoyable and informative!

Erika Sussi

2020 ILC President

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Letter From the 2019 ILC President

Welcome to the 81st Intermountain Logging Conference & Equipment Show

Mark Boardman
ILC President

On behalf of Intermountain Logging Conference Board of Directors and my wife Kari and I, we’d like to extend a sincere invitation to you, your crew, and family to attend the 81st Annual Intermountain Logging Conference & Equipment Show (ILC) April 3-5, 2019. Once again we will be at the Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center located in Spokane Valley, Washington.

 This year marks Eighty-one (81) years of tradition and still going strong.  The ILC was started in 1938 with Don McKenzie.

Our ILC Vice President, Erika Sussi of G. Ikola Inc. from of McCall, Idaho, has put together a program revolving around Team work, titled, “Working Together for a Better Tomorrow.”  We’ll have presentations from Loggers, Equipment Dealers, Resource Professionals, and Innovators from throughout the logging industry. We all are working hard to ensure that you will find this program informative, educational, useful, and entertaining. We want you to take home some great memories and nuggets of information to help your business. As always there will be continuing education credits for the various state logger programs.  Please continue to check our website for the updated 81st Program Agenda. 

 We are looking forward to Keynote Speaker Mark Brinkmeyer of Idaho Forest Group and his message of “Growing the Timber Industry in the Age of Automation: Sustaining and Developing Strong, Committed, and Enterprising Employees”

 The ILC is a time to meet new friends, and renew old ones. Make it a goal to talk with someone new this year. You’ll be surprised at what you’ll learn. With that in mind, we’ve left plenty of time for socializing, networking, looking at equipment and visiting with all the vendors.

 Come join us Wednesday through Friday, April 3-5, 2019 in the Spokane Valley. We look forward to seeing you there!

Mark Boardman

2019 ILC President