Stewardship Forum
Forests: Rooted in our Community
A ‘Friends of the Credit’ Stewardship Forum and Volunteer Appreciation Event
Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011
From 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
University Of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. N., Mississauga
The event includes a complimentary lunch
Keynote Speaker:
Franke James (view bio)
Presentations
| Organic Food Production and Forest Conservation: Working Together for Healthy and Diverse Ecosystems (Carolyn Bailey, EcoSource) |
Promoting conservation and forest stewardship through community gardens, fruit trees and urban agriculture. (View presentation) |
| Canada’s Green Crown: Why we must save the Boreal Forest and what you can do to help (Alex Speers-Roesch, Greenpeace) | An overview of Canada’s Boreal Forest, why it is important, how it’s threatened and what Greenpeace is doing to save it. (View presentation) |
| Lessons in Good Forestry Practices (Bohdan Kowalyk, Ministry of Natural Resources) | Good Forestry practices allow forest harvest, renewal and maintenance while minimizing detriments to forest values. (View presentation) |
| Invasive Forest Plants: Threats and Management (Rod Krick, Credit Valley Conservation) | How invasive species are threatening our forests, impacting our local watershed and biodiversity, and what we can do to prevent invasive plants from spreading. (View presentation) |
| Mississauga Living Green in Action (Mary Bracken, City of Mississauga) | A synopsis of the City of Mississauga’s Living Green Master Plan, which aims to ensure a green Mississauga. (View presentation) |
| Green Development Strategy in Mississauga (Michael Karowich, City of Mississauga) | The City of Mississauga Green Development Strategy affects primarily private development, and is one of many initiatives designed to ensure a green Mississauga. (View presentation) |
| Plants and Animals: Indicators of Forest Health in the Credit River Watershed (Kata Bavrlic, Credit Valley Conservation) | Results from Credit Valley Conservations terrestrial monitoring program as it relates to temporal and spatial trends of vegetation and bird communities to forest ecosystem health and integrity. (View presentation) |
| Revealing Nature’s Hidden Economic Benefits (Eric Miller, Consultant) | Nature’s economic benefits are priceless, yet still economically valuable. These benefits are being quantified in Ontario and around the world as “ecosystem services”. (View presentation) |
| Salamanders: A Forest’s Canary in the Coal Mine (Kelsey O’Reily, Credit Valley Conservation) | The first year of salamander data collection, relating it to the understanding of forest ecosystem health and integrity in the Credit Valley watershed. (View presentation) |
| Maintaining Old Trees in the Human Landscape (Phillip Wassenaer, Urban Forest Innovations) | Innovative tree risk assessment methods and how these can be applied to managing aging urban trees. (View presentation) |
| Fulfilling Hundertwasser’s Dream: “A City and a Forest should be Indistinguishable to a Bird” – and Protecting Our Forests. (Brad Bass, University of Toronto) | Using green infrastructure to increase urban biodiversity in a manner that protects and enhances neighboring ecosystems. (View presentation) |
| Trees, trees, trees: 50 Million by 2020 (Al Corlett, Trees Ontario) | The Ministry of Natural Resources’ 50 Million Tree Program. Why afforestation is important in southern Ontario, landowners opportunities, program challenges, partners, and accomplishments. (View presentation) |
| Developing a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Lake Simcoe Watershed (Gary Neilson, Ministry of Natural Resources) | This presentation describes the process, results and provides guidance for other practitioners to develop adaptation strategies. (View presentation) |
| Healthy Trees for Healthy Communities: Measuring the Services Provided by Urban Forests (Meaghan Eastwood, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority) | New tools of analysis have been developed that allow urban forest managers to measure the volume and value of ecosystem services. This presentation examines results and discusses the importance of investing in urban forest. |
| The Secret is in Soil – Urban Trees and Stormwater Management (Robb Lukes, Credit Valley Conservation) | Urban trees, particularly in parking lot islands and along streets, play a major role in intercepting and treating urban storm water and keeping our streams and lakes clean. (View presentation) |
| Life brought to you by Biodiversity (Steve Hounsell, Biodiversity Education Awareness Network) | Biodiversity is more than just variety. Understanding biodiversity goes beyond science and environmental education. (View presentation) |
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