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Symposium Venue

The symposium will be held at the Valhalla Inn, Thunder Bay, Ontario. 

Field Tour

On Day 3 of the symposium, Wednesday, July 27, 2005, participants will take
part in a field tour of reforestation activities in selected area forests, forest
operations, field trials, and tree nurseries. Participants will see examples of
current practices of site preparation, competition control, and nursery stock
production. The tour will include visits to an area container seedling nursery
and a variety of sites where stands have been established within the past five
years. The tour will also showcase older plantations, with a retrospective look
at how past forest regeneration practices have affected such indicators of
sustainability as stand yield, biodiversity, and wildlife habitat.  The tour will
include visits of forest operations in practice, such as tree planting, site
preparation, thinning, and harvesting.

*Note: Please bring appropriate footwear

An Evening at the Harbour

On Wednesday evening a shuttle bus will take participants to and from the Valhalla
Inn and Thunder Bay's Marina Park, located on the waterfront in the north end of
the city. At Marina Park, participants can listen to live music, watch boat races in
the inner harbor, visit an art gallery featuring work by local artists, and take a tour
of the waterfront by boat to view the city from Lake Superior. Also located within
easy walking distance of Marina Park are a variety of interesting and unique restaurants,
as well as the famous Thunder Bay Charity Casino.

Scheduled music at the park that evening is Mood Indigo (Jazz) from 6:30-7:30 pm,
Tom Cashmore and the Ten Dreams Band (folk rock) from 7:30-8:30 pm) and
The Blue Pretenders (Blues) from 8:30-9:30 pm.