Webinar: Kemptville Winter Woodlot Conference - Day 3

Kemptville Winter Woodlot Conference - Day 3

We invite everyone to gather around your computer screen to listen and view our special forest themed presentations. 

Throughout the month of February the planning committee has put together a weekly series of free noon hour webinars. 

Approximately 1-2 days prior to the webinar you will receive an invitation to attend along with login instructions. Presentations may be subject to change. 

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid - Hemlock Management

Wednesday, February 21, 2023 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

Management guidelines to increase the resilience of Ontario’s eastern hemlock resource to an exotic, invasive insect.

Speaker: Ken Elliott, R.P.F. —Senior Forester with FSmith Consulting Inc.

Ken lives north of Peterborough in the rural community of Ennismore.

Ken recently retired from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry after a 35-year career. He continues as an avid outdoor enthusiast and volunteers with various forestry and nature organizations but also dabbles in consulting as a part-time senior forester with FSmith Consulting and as a silvicultural instructor with Forests Ontario and the CIF, mostly helping to deliver the provincial tree marker training program.  His career has spanned operations, science, policy and program development where he tested silvicultural approaches, and transferred knowledge through presentations and as part of multi-disciplinary writing teams for scientific papers and guiding documents.