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October 2024
2024 Natural Areas Conference: Where Science Meets Stewardship
For the past 50 years, NAA’s Natural Areas Conference has gathered federal, tribal, state, regional, and local natural areas practitioners from national nonprofit organizations, private industry, and academic institutions in order to foster communication and collaboration that can lead to progress in connection to challenges in the management of natural areas.
Find out more »Two Day Gathering – Future of Brown Ash Meeting
A two-day gathering at University of Maine, Orono, to inform people about current research about brown ash forests and reconvene the community of people who care for brown ash. REGISTER HERE! There will be two days of discussions, talks, meals, and posters: You can find a shortened agenda here.
Find out more »Asian Longhorned Beetle Workshop
The Asian longhorned beetle (ALHB) training session is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and tools required to detect ALHB in the field. The format of the training will be a short presentation and discussion followed by a review of ALHB signs and symptoms simulated on trees in the park. The session will provide participants with an overview of ALHB biology, signs and symptoms of attack, surveillance methods for this pest and its’ background in Canada. the workshop will…
Find out more »Ontario Forest Health Review
The Forest Health Review is an annual meeting to provide an update on the current status of forests in Ontario for forest resource managers, foresters, ecologists, conservation authorities, pest management companies, academics, municipalities, and others interested in forest resource management. Experts will present the latest information on forest health conditions, forest invasive pests, current and upcoming forest pest management programs, and the current year’s research results.
Find out more »Public Consultation Period – A new directive to mitigate the introduction and spread of spotted lanternfly open for comments
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has launched a public consultation to seek comments on the program directive D-24-01: Spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) – domestic and import phytosanitary requirements. This new directive describes the phytosanitary import requirements for nursery stock and logs of deciduous species with bark from regulated areas of the continental United States (U.S.) to prevent the introduction of spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) into Canada. It also outlines the domestic requirements for these same articles moving from regulated…
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