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Kemptville Winter Woodlot Conference A must-attend educational and networking event for private woodlot owners as well as the commercial, service, government, and non-government organizations that want to reach them!
Growing Diverse Values in Woodlots When? Wednesday February 17, 2010 9:00—3:15 Coffee & Registration from 8:00
Where? W.B. George Centre Kemptville Campus 830 Prescott St, Kemptville
This theme for the 23rd annual conference will feature topical information and exhibits enabling forest owners to explore diverse economic, recreational, environmental and cultural values and benefits of their woodlots! * Highlights include * Working Woodlot Panel Session: presentations from diverse woodlots that produce maple syrup, timber, Christmas trees, ornamentals, firewood and more Our Forestry Heritage: logging and sawmill stories from the Ottawa Valley Agro-Forestry: windbreaks and nut production basics Plantation Management & Landowner Options: timber plantation economics, state of the forest industry, private land programs offered, new carbon credit program, update on OPG’s biomass conversion program Bats in Ontario: all about our nocturnal neighbours
COST? $25 incl hot lunch $15 add family member $15 without lunch Pre-Registration Suggested:
contact Mary Humphries 613-258-8241 Or modelforest@eomf.on.ca
Some Facts Private woodlot owners: typically have full-time jobs off the land, are farmers, or are retired only manage their ‘woodlots’ part-time for extra income and/or for recreational, environmental or other values and benefits own 90 percent of the forested land in Eastern Ontario contribute significantly to our forest-based economies, jobs, and communities provide wood for local mills, value-added products, artisans, the hearth are vital partners in implementing sustainable practices to ensure we have healthy forests both now and for future generations thru: the conservation of habitat and species at risk; the control of invasive species; the afforestation of abandoned farmland with native species; the protection of local watersheds and groundwater; the proliferation of a green canopy to help fight climate change...
SPONSORS TO DATE (with links) – THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! To find out more about joining our growing list of Sponsors & Exhibitors please contact: Melanie at: mwilliams@eomf.on.ca or (613) 258-8365
Grenville Land Stewardship Council Leeds County Stewardship Council Resource Stewardship Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Council and the SD&G Certified Forest Owners
Ottawa Stewardship Council Community Stewardship Council of Lanark County Prescott-Russell Stewardship Council Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Lavern Heideman & Sons Limited
Eastern Ontario Model Forest Tree Canada Trees Ontario Ferguson Forest Centre & Friends of the FFC Ontario Woodlot Association, Lower Ottawa Valley Ch. Rideau Valley Conservation Authority South Nation Conservation Limerick Forest & United Counties of Leeds & Grenville Canadian Institute of Forestry, Ottawa Valley Section Ben Hokum & Son Limited
EOMF as shown above is located within the MNR building shown below. Continue on Campus Drive and turn right on McPhail Street to W.B. George Centre as shown below.