[getsmart-l] Fw: Notice of Ontario Urban Forest Council Annual Meeting - Agenda Attached

[John O'Gorman]

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From: Adrina Bardekjian Ambrosii 
To: Adrina Bardekjian Ambrosii 
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:08 PM
Subject: Notice of Ontario Urban Forest Council Annual Meeting - Agenda Attached


Please distribute widely.

Thank you,

 

Adrina Bardekjian Ambrosii, B.A., MFC

Urban Forestry Consultant

www.adrina.ca 

 

Ontario Urban Forest Council

2007 Seminar and Annual Meeting

 

Climate Change and the Future of Ontario's Forests:

Can we help our urban and rural forests adapt?

             

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto

1000 Murray Ross Parkway - southeast of Steeles Avenue and Jane Street

 

The rate of climate change is predicted to accelerate throughout the first century, fuelled by greenhouse gasses emitted into the atmosphere by human activity.  As trees can take over 100 years to mature, those we plant today will reach maturity in a climate that likely will be quite different from the one in which they are planted today.

 

In southern Ontario and the Greater Toronto Region, there will be an increased risk of winter and summer storm events, as well as hotter and drier summers, milder winters with unpredictable cold spells, and an increase of the annual soil moisture deficit. 

 

Climate change is predicted to strongly impact plant distributions of over 125 North American species. In this seminar, forest scientists will examine climate impact on trees and urban forests and specifically what is in store for trees now, and 10, 50 and 100 years from now. 

 

Our keynote speaker will be Dr Dan McKenney, a senior scientist and Team Leader of the Landscape Analysis and Applications Group with the Canadian Forest Service in Sault Ste Marie, whose research interests include the development and application of spatial data of the physical environment (such as climate), bioeconomic models of trade-offs in forest management and policy and research priority assessments.  The "Group's" spatial climate models are widely used now in Canada and the US, in applications like the Plant Hardiness project, the "Seedwhere" program and bioeconomic studies of forest carbon, to help provide insights on the impacts and possible adaptation strategies to climate change. 

 

The dilemma of planting trees and urban forests suitable for the next 100 years of changing environment is upon us now.   This Climate Change and the Future of Ontario's Forests seminar will provide an opportunity to learn from forest professionals about adapting to climate change.

 

       To register, please mail a cheque payable to "Ontario Urban Forest Council"

                OUFC members $100.00  Non-members $120.00  Students,/Seniors/Fixed income $50.00 includes lunch and refreshments        

                Send to: Ontario Urban Forest Council 

                C/o Jack Radecki 

                1523 Warden Avenue Units 23/25 

                Toronto, Ontario M1R 4Z8    For further information please go to www.oufc.org

 
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