The Leader, Eganville, Ontario - August 17, 2011
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Late forester is recognized with prestigious award father taught him was to always consider the long-term view of things. “You always have to be thinking 10 or 20 years away,” he stressed. He also noted he was extremely grateful to the Ontario Woodlot Association-Renfrew County chapter which, since his passing, have had a Bill Hall Memorial lecture
Leo Hall, left, president of Opeongo Forest Services in Renfrew, accepts the Ross Silversides Award on behalf of his late father, Bill Hall, from Jim McCready, chair of the board of directors of the Eastern Ontario Model Forests. The award recognizes commitment and contributions to the forest industry and the late Mr. Hall who passed away in December 2009 has left a legacy for his work in the industry. ONE STOP IMPORT SHOPPING! ONE STOP IMPORT SHOPPING! ONE STOP IMPORT SHOPPING! ONE STOP IMPORT SHOPPING!
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at their annual general meeting. “I think it’s a great idea that they find people who are commentators on forestry and what we’re up against and what the opportunities might be,” he said. “I think it’s very appropriate because dad was always trying to think ahead and see what the opportunities might be and what was on the horizon.”
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Grateful for Recognition Leo Hall, who is carrying on the family tradition as president of Opeongo Forestry Service, accepted the award on behalf of his dad. He said his father was raised in the Toronto area where his father, James Leo Hall, was a physician in the city. “His family’s roots were in a rural community where they farmed,” he said. “My grandfather retained a strong interest in the outdoors and was a keen sportsman, so my father, despite growing up in Toronto, made regular trips up to the French River and Muskoka Lakes area to fish, hunt, and do outdoor stuff. “I think that experience as a young man inspired an interest in my dad for the outdoors and the woods, and that propelled him to consider forestry as a career,” he added. His dad started with the Lands and Forest in 1954 in the city, but was transferred to Tweed in about 1957. Two years later he was again transferred to the former and now defunct Lands and Forests office at Dacre and settled in Renfrew where he opened his own business in 1962. “I think dad would have been honoured to even be considered for this award,” he noted. “It’s always meaningful to have people provide some form of appreciation . . . He put a lot of time into trying to communicate ideas about forestry to other people on a volunteer basis and he cared a lot about that. “And an award that valued that communication of forestry ideas and ideals was something he would have appreciated because he felt there needed to be more talk about the role of forestry and the benefits of it and the potential of it for this country and this province,” he added. “He was very strongly opinionated that there needed to be more communication and collaboration about how to do it as well as possible.” Leo Hall feels at the time of his passing, his father, like him, was very frustrated by the inability of the industry to evolve. “His belief and my continuing belief is that we are in the middle of an historic change here, similar to the same thing that happened with the development of the pulp and paper business. It was a very positive new use for wood at the time and it created a tremendous amount of economic activity and wealth for Canada and Ontario and this region. “He believed, and I share the belief, that we’re at another one of these historic changes and we’re seeing a substitution away from the use of paper in North America and we need to find new ways to use these forest resources to enable wealth and prosperity to continue to be generated from them,” he added. He said that transition is a very challenging one and the industry needs everyone involved to work as hard as they can to get through it. “I think he felt some concern and discouragement, as did I, that the emphasis and vigor with which that challenge was being met is not enough,” he noted. “Other countries are responding to this challenge better than we are and better than we have.” He said like his father, he believes it is up to the owner of the forest to see these changes occur, noting there is about 90 percent Crown land in Ontario. “That means the owner has to take a proprietary interest in it and think it’s important to make use of these resources that are owned by the people of Ontario. And it was our position that effort wasn’t happening fast enough and as a result we’re seeing what feels like unprecedented difficult times in the industry.” Valuable Advice Mr. Hall said the most important thing his father taught him was to have a patient work ethic and to get up every day and try to improve things, regardless of how the previous day had gone. “He was a big hockey player in his youth and he always said the way you win hockey games was by continuing to skate even when you didn’t have the puck. You’ve got to keep moving and keep skating and eventually opportunity will come your way. “He often said the business world was a lot like that, you have to keep turning over rocks, looking for opportunity under them,” he added. “You might have to turn over all 20 rocks before you find the one with something underneath it but you’re not going to find that unless you turn over the other 19 first.” He said the other important aspect of the business his
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Staff Writer Renfrew -- A well-known Renfrew forester whose legacy lives on in the industry has been posthumously honoured as the recipient of one of the industry’s most prestigious awards. The late Bill Hall, founder of Opeongo Forestry Service, was named the recipient of the Ross Silversides Award at the Eastern Ontario Model Forests 19th annual general meeting in Almonte earlier this summer. Named in honour of the late Dr. C. Ross Silversides, the driving force behind the original Eastern Ontario Model Forest proposal and an internationally respected forester himself, the award recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions to sustainable forestry. “Openness, co-operation, foresight, knowledge, dedication, and respect for the forest and all its values characterized Ross Silversides’ approach towards the forest and the people associated with it,” explained Mark Richardson, general manager of the Eastern Ontario Model Forest. “The individuals given this award have demonstrated similar qualities.” Mr. Richardson said Mr. Hall was a one-time resident of the Ottawa Valley known as a professional forester of the highest calibre. “More than that, he was a friend, a teacher, an innovator who helped many people better understand what is possible in progressive forest management and an ethical approach to life,” Mr. Richardson noted. Mr. Hall graduated from the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto in 1954 and spent the early part of his career with the then Department of Lands and Forests. By the early 1960s he had settled in Renfrew County and had begun acquiring forest land, ultimately totalling 6,000 acres which he, and later his son and business partner, Leo, managed as an increasingly progressive forest business. “Bill and Leo often hosted tours on their land where they were proud to demonstrate the results of their dedication to the betterment of the forest through new innovative management approaches,” Mr. Richardson stated. “Lately, the Halls visited a number of forest areas in the USA and Europe to better understand the potential for biomass conversion to energy and how Ontario and their own business could prosper from better harnessing this potential.” Mr. Richardson described Mr. Hall as a very active participant in all forestry events in the Valley. “He was a life member of the Canadian Institute of Forestry, the Ontario Professional Forestry Association and an active proponent of local woodlot organizations in Renfrew and Lanark counties,” Mr. Richardson noted. “At forest tours and field-related meetings, he was there and interested in learning and contributing his wisdom to the forest management dialogue. His advice was based on the conviction that what is done needs to make business sense; otherwise nothing of enduring value will result.” Mr. Richardson said Mr. Hall will always be remembered as a person who was completely practical in his advice, which was given with a smile, and his generosity, which disarmed any who might have held a contrary view. The recipients of the award are recognized for demonstrating one or more of the following four criteria, Mr. Richardson explained. Significant contribution to sustainable forestry in Eastern Ontario; strong commitment to community forestry; innovative approaches to forestry practices; and outstanding ability and willingness to transfer knowledge of sustainable forestry practices to the people of Eastern Ontario and elsewhere. “Bill Hall ably fulfilled all four criteria,” Mr. Richardson noted. Extensive Knowledge of Industry Jeff Muzzi, manager of forests and trails for the County of Renfrew, said he had done some work with the late Mr. Hall and has done a lot of work with his son, Leo, as well. “I had known Bill for decades and he was just one of those guys that was universally respected in forestry,” he said. “You won’t find a person that has a bad word to say about him. “His knowledge of forestry was so extensive and one of the things I really liked about him was that he always understood the business end of forestry and the fact is you can’t do forest management if you don’t make money,” he added. “That’s what pays for forest management, revenue, and Bill always, always kept that in sight.” He said Mr. Hall proved over and over again that one could sustainably manage a forest for everything -- wildlife, timber products, the whole bit, plus make money. Mr. Muzzi said Mr. Hall was incredibly well respected in the industry and a great advocate of sustaining the industry. “I remember his obituary said that even in his old age he still had the curiosity of a child and he did. He really had the ability to think outside the box and he looked all over . . . he went to Europe and the States and everywhere else looking at different methods of forest harvest and forest management and use and he really, really knew his stuff. “His passing (in December 2009) was a real loss, as far as I’m concerned, to the whole forest industry, not just in Renfrew County, but the whole province,” he added.
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