A More Resilient Woodlot - Special Earth Day Session

The Quinte Chapter of the Ontario Woodlot Association is marking Earth Day by sponsoring a webinar on this year’s theme Invest in Our Planet.  Woodlot owners can Invest in Our Planet by helping our forests adapt to changes brought by invasive species and climate change. Professor Messier will discuss his article in the December 2021 Woodlander magazine, entitled A More Resilient Woodlot.

Professor Messier is professor of Forest Ecology and scientific director at ISFORT at the University of Quebec. His expertise is in developing innovative urban and natural forest management approaches from tree to landscape scales to increase the resilience of forests to global change. He holds an industrial-NSERC research Chair on tree growth since 2010 and a Canada Research Chair on the resilience of managed forest to global change since 2017. He was recently inducted to the Royal Society of Canada.