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Monday, July 25 - DAY ONE

6:00-9:00 Icebreaker & Registration
Exhibits and poster displays setup
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Tuesday, July 26 - DAY TWO

7:30-8:30 Registration
8:00-8:30 Opening Remarks and Official Greetings
8:30-9:15 Growing a Stronger, Greener Ontario  
Jamie Lim, Ontario Forest Industries Association
9:15-10:00 Making Ends Meet in the Forest Nursery Business 
John Kitchen, Pacific Regeneration Technologies
10:00-10:30 Refreshment Break Poster viewing
10:30-12:35 Concurrent Papers -- Sessions 1 and 2
12:35-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:15 Successful Stock Production for Forest Regeneration: What Foresters Should
Ask Nursery Managers About Their Crops Kas Dumroese, US Forest Service
2:15-3:00 Regeneration Practices in Scandinavia: State of the Art and New Trends
Anders Mattsson, Dalarna University, Sweden
3:00-3:30 Refreshment Break Poster viewing
3:30-4:15 Regeneration for Ecosystem-Based Sustainability in Canada
Dirk Brinkman, Brinkman & Associates Reforestation
4:15-5:150 Status of Reforestation in Ontario I. A special presentation of the status
of forest regeneration in Ontario by Jeff Leach, Tembec and Mike Wood, PRT Dryden

Banquet, Ballroom 3, Valhalla Inn 
Social at 6:00, Dinner at 6:45 pm
Dinner speaker: Mr. Richard LePage on Managing Fur Bearing Species in the 21st century

 

 


Wednesday, July 27 - DAY THREE

8:00-5:00 Field tour to boreal reforestation sites and Hill's Tree Nursery.
6:00-9:00 Shuttle between Valhalla Inn and Marina Park. Dinner and entertainment on your own.

 

 


Thursday, July 28 - DAY FOUR

8:10-8:20 Opening remarks
8:30-9:30 Status of Reforestation in Ontario II. Conclusion of the special sessions
on reforestation in Ontario by Russ Hughes, Bowater and Charlie Lauer,
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
9:30-10:00 Panel Discussion and question and answer session between symposium
participants and Jeff Leach (Tembec), Mike Wood (PRT Dryden),
Russ Hughes (Bowater), and Charlie Lauer (MNR)
10:00-10:30 Refreshment Break Poster discussions
10:30-12:35 Concurrent Papers -- Sessions 3, 4 and 5
12:35-1:30 Lunch (Poster viewing)
1:30-2:15 Applying an Understanding of Stand and Competition Dynamics for
Natural Regeneration and Achievement of Alternative End Products:
Examples from Western Canadian Mixedwood Forests
Phil Comeau, University of Alberta
2:15-3:00 Challenges and Successes in Afforestation and Reforestation in Southern Europe
Lorenzo Ciccarese, Environmental Protection Agency, Italy
3:00-3:20 Refreshment Break
3:20-4:00 Forest Regeneration Trends: Dinosaurs, Political Correctness, and the Future
Bob Wagner, University of Maine
4:00-4:15 To where from here? A synthesis of the Thin Green Line
Dirk Brinkman, Brinkman & Associates Reforestation
4:15-4:30 Closing Remarks