The Sustainable Forest Management Network will be holding their 2009 conference April 21-23 at the Hilton Lac-Leamy Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario where the topic of discussion will be securing the future of the Canadian forest in the face of climate change.
Collaborative sessions with dignitaries and research scientists that have 14 years of research will result in an action plan through clever, adaptive and innovative ways of meeting the inevitable warmer climes.
Dr. C. S. Holling, opening speaker for the three-day conference, said the current method of rebuilding forests needs to be rethought and instead replaced with the planting of species that can survive or even thrive during the climate changes they are expected.
Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, University of Waterloo professor, is expected to present evidence that the affects of climate change will occur earlier than expected and will ask conference attendees to “rethink convention” for sustaining Canadian forests.
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