Canadian Institute of Forestry: SO Section

Canadian Institute of Forestry - Southern Ontario Section

SOS Meeting Page

Other forestry-related meetings may be found on the OPFA website

Meetings for 2006 - 2007

Past Meetings

Forest Conservation and Management in the Zcech Republic and Slovakia

Date: Thursday, September 21, 2006
Place: Earth Sciences Building, Room 4001
Time: 7:00 PM

7:00 to 7:30: CIF/SOS AGM
7:30 to 8:30 - Presentation by grad students reflecting their trip to ZR and S this summer with Professor Andy Kenney. Word is some students may prepare some tasty food samples as well.

Sat, October 15, 2005:
Meeting at the Kortright Centre
10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Annual Meeting
Friday June 17 2005
City of Oakville

Two Themes: a) Management of Oak Decline and b) a 'cutting edge' urban forestry project called UFORE

John McNeil, RPF , Manager of Forestry Service , Town of Oakville and Pete Williams,RPF, Williams and Associates will describe the Town of Oakville response to Oak Decline. They will discuss forest and disease control strategy from U.S.D.A. Forest Service, management plan approach, renewing the forest including prescribed burn 2005, public involvement; a separate tour stop will include the UFORE (Urban Forest Effect Model) project..

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General Meeting
Feb 26, 2005 (Saturday) - Acton, Ontario
SOS section meeting (about 1 hour) to piggyback WOA AGM conference

AGM, May 29, 2004, New Sarum

Morning meeting was eventful, with election of a new council member. Minutes of the meeting will be forthcoming by next fall.

Afternoon field trip visited two sites of interest . . .etc. More to follow when available.

Winter Meeting,

Attendance was low, but the meeting went ahead with a presentation about the use of the internet for forestry practices.

Fall Meeting, November 13, 2003

Excellent meeting with students and SOS members in attendance. During the AM section meeting in the morning, Bruce and Caroline gave us their impressions of this fall's World Forest Congress in Québec City. Bruce`s report will be among the references to that milestone meeting which included forestry professionals, students and others from around the world. See picture page.

AGM, May 8th, 2003

Meeting went very well, with about 32 in attendance. Please refer to our next newsletter for details. Also, go to the Photo Page for some picture of the day.

February 25th, 2003: Guelph

Guelph: Meeting began with a small presentation at the Guelph Turfgrass Institute, briefly indicating U of G's increasing contribution to carbon sequestration research. Presented by Naresh Thevathasen, picture of group to follow:

Sorry I didn't get an inside shot. 14 people made it to the main meeting at the Gibson Building, U of G.

Meeting Agenda

1. Agroforestry, Carbon Sequestration and Kyoto Dr. Naresh Thevathasen, research associate, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph

2. Ontario Stewardship Councils - What's Going On? Rob Wallace, Wellington County Stewardship Coordinator

3. Forestry on the Grand River Watershed Martin Neumann, Forest Resource Planner, Grand River Conservation Authority

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Friday, Novemeber 29th, 2002

Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto

33 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario

Forestry: Career Opportunities

Wednesday, September 18th, 2002

The Lower Trent Conservation Authority hosted this meeting in their boardroom, where we heard about the Domtor Forest Products program. We also received an update on the FSC program as described in SOS`s Fall newsletter (should be available on this website in PDF format.

Thursday, May 30th, 2002

AGM 2000

The day went very well, skirting rain storms, the field activities, and the participants managed to stay dry. The business meeting went smoothly, managed by the experienced leadership of our vice-chair, Jim Cayford. A renewed council has been approved, but there are still three positions to fill. Any volunteers will probably be readily accepted!

Doug Drysdale gave a very interesting history behind the growth of the Drysdale businesses, a history which very much parallels the development of the highway 400 corridor and the initial development of the Christmas tree industry. And lunch was great - thanks Doug.

We were then expertly hosted by the Somerville Nursery staff in and around their new headquarters south of Everett. We were ferried about several of their properties (bus and wagon) under the leadership of Paul Frazer. Mr. John Somerville, now a Fellow member of the CIF, was also with us to add information about the history of the nursery business, and his company which he, of course, founded.

Thank you Paul and John

Saturday, March 9^th, 2002

Location: Sir Sanford Fleming College, Lindsay, Ontario

Theme: Education of Forestry Practitioners in Ontario

Program:

10:30 Tour of Sir Sanford Fleming College facilities

12:00 Lunch

Student CIF/IFC Forestry Ring Ceremony

1:00 Technical session on forestry education

3:00 Adjourn

Evening program ($18) includes Banquet and Ring Ceremony

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