Join us this year for the Arkansas Forestry Association's 80th Annual Meeting! We will be meeting this year in Hot Springs back at the Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort from October 14-16. Details of this year's meeting are still being developed and we will provide updates to this page as they become available. Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are now available online and below.

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The meeting format—three days of content—will provide participants educational and networking opportunities. On Tuesday, October 14 we will have recreational activities that include golf at the Hot Springs Country Club and a sporting clays shoot at the Mountain Valley Sportsman's Association in the Hot Springs area. Participants of the shooting event will be required to bring two boxes of ammunition needed for the event.

Wednesday is a full day of speakers during our general session. You can check out the full agenda with speakers and topics below. We will then conclude the night with our annual fish fry at the Hamp Williams Building.

The meeting concludes Thursday morning with AFA's Award Breakfast where we highlight and honor those in our community who are doing excellent work in the forestry industry.

If you already know that you will be joining us this year, you can go ahead and reserve a room at the Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort. We have received a special group room rate at Oaklawn. The final day to get the AFA special room rate is September 23. After that time, rooms will be sold at the prevailing price.The room rates, available Oct. 13- Oct. 16, 2025, for the conference are:

• $114 for King or Double Queen

To make your reservations utilizing the discounted rates, follow these instructions:

1. Call Oaklawn's Room Reservations Department at (501) 363-4625
2. Refer to Booking ID# BKG1204
3. Confirm the room rate is $114

Agenda

Tuesday, Oct. 14

8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

  Sporting Activities (golf & sporting clays)

  Women Owning Woodlands Luncheon

Noon - 6:00 p.m.

  Registration & Exhibitor Set-up

1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

  Forest Management Workshop

  Private Property Rights Issues: Rusty Rumley & Brigit Rollins, National Agriculture Law Center

  Forestry Ethics:  Dr. Michael Blazier, Arkansas Forest Resources Center

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

  AFA Board Meeting

6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

  Weyerhaeuser Opening Reception

7:30 p.m.

  Dinner on Your Own

Wednesday, Oct. 15

7:00 a.m.

  Exhibitor Set-up 

  UAM Alumni Breakfast

7:30 a.m.

  Registration

8:00 a.m.

  Welcome & Introductions:  Max Braswell, Arkansas Forestry Association

8:15 a.m.

  Where Does Wood Fit in National Energy Policy?:  Dr. Valerie Reed, U.S. Department of Energy

9:15 a.m.

  Forest Marketplace Update & Opportunities for Small Diameter Wood: Marshall Thomas, F&W Forestry

10:15 a.m.

  Break

10:45 a.m.

  How Businesses & Individuals Should Prepare for Cyber Security Threats: Tonja Hill, Little Rock Bureau FBI

11:45 a.m.

  Farm Credit Luncheon

1:00 p.m.

  Overview of Weyerhaeuser's Monticello/Warren TimberStrand Mill:  Brian Chaney, Weyerhaeuser

2:00 p.m.

  The Role of Wood in Sustainable Aviation Fuel:  Michael Newton, Natural State Renewables

3:00 p.m.

  Break

3:30 p.m.

  Building Arkansas's Electricity Generation Capacity: John Bethel, Entergy Arkansas

4:30 p.m.

  Adjourn

  Exhibit Take-down

6:00 p.m.

  PotlatchDeltic Fish Fry at the Hamp Williams Building

Thursday, Oct. 16

8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

  AFA Awards Breakfast

11:00 a.m.

  Door Prizes & Meeting Adjournment

Sponsors

Premier Sponsor

Champion Sponsor

Diamond Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

ArborGen

Azelis Agriculture & Environmental Solutions

Silver Sponsors

Arkansas Center for Forest Business

Canfor

Chestnut Carbon

Domtar

First Horizon Bank

Georgia-Pacific

International Paper

Outdoor Underwriters

Resource Management Service

Saunders Real Estate

Shelby Taylor Trucking

Stevens Forestry Service

TimberMart-South

West Fraser

Bronze Sponsors

American Forest Management

Arkansas Farm Bureau

DDK Forestry & Real Estate

Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas

F&W Forestry Service

Kingwood Forestry Services Inc.

Molpus Woodlands Group

Neeley Forestry Service

The Price Companies

Exhibitors

Acorn Forestry

ArborGen

Arkansas Center for Forest Business

Arkansas Department of Agriculture - Forestry Division

Arkansas Children's

Azelis Agriculture & Environmental Solutions

Bayou Field & Outdoors

Chestnut Carbon

Dorsey Trailer

Farm Credit

Forestry Systems

Hunt Lease, LLC

IFCO Seedlings

Landmark Spatial Solutions

Superior Forstry Service, Inc.

TRACT Forestry Software

Tree Tracker LLC

Weyerhaeuser

Xterra Inc.