FurFest Northwest

FurFest Northwest was a furry convention planned for August 25 - 27, 2006 in Moscow, Idaho, U.S.A. The convention was created as a "replacement" con after Conifur Northwest 2006 (due to be held in the fall in Washington state) was cancelled. FurFest Northwest itself was cancelled a month before the planned date.

Guests of honor
FurFest Northwest's guests of honor were to be Starfinder and Javachickn.

Staff

 * Michael "Rex" Wolf
 * Sean "Moorcat" Ravencraft
 * Roderick "Verp" Sprague IV
 * Mark "Zinnthra" Lewis
 * Lupercus Archanus

Controversy
In mid July, artists' concerns were posted about the convention in the Artists Beware LiveJournal community, by blueroo, including "I'm highly skeptical about this Con, and I know a lot of other folks are too. Nobody knows exactly how it is funded." This spurred a debate mostly critical of the way the convention was being planned, culminating in convention chairman Rex Wolf threatening to take legal action against the person who originally brought up concerns about the con (insisting that they were rumors and unfounded criticisms).

Cancellation
On July 24th, one month before the scheduled convention date, Rex announced on the FurFest Northwest bulletin boards that the convention was being cancelled. Originally, it was stated that the cancellation was due to a lack of registration sales, but later it was blamed on "destructive drama" by Seattle area furries. Approximately 20 people had registered to attend.

Following is one revision of the chairman's cancellation notice that was posted to the official website:

Numerous attempts to communicate directly with the chairman both before and after the cancellation were met with open hostility, and several posts providing suggestions or asking questions of the con staff were deleted from the convention's bulletin board. Several accounts were also deleted from the bulletin board, and the board was later configured to only allow new accounts on administrator approval.

The bulletin board itself was later taken down due to a lack of funding.

Aftermath
FurFest Northwest staff member Moorcat later founded All Fur Fun and became its chairman. Zinnthra and Lupercus became members of the new convention's staff.

In April 2007, Rex announced he was giving up all efforts to start a new convention and would let the furfestnorthwest.org domain lapse.