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