Click to listen! Did you know...? Most OFRI seminars are eligible for continuing education credits through the Ontario Professional Foresters Association and the Canadian Institute of Forestry. Seminars without links are available through email.
2013
- A Global View on Forest Response to Global Change: Experiments, Models, and Concepts
- The Relentless Advance of Beech Bark Disease: What Will It Leave Behind? (watch CTV news interview with John McLaughlin about beech bark disease!)
- Managing White Pine Blister Rust Using Genetic Resistance: Are We Ready for a Compromise? (audio only; view slide deck here)
- Extensive Conifer Needle Browning in Northwestern Ontario in Spring 2012
2012
- Happy Together: How J.D. Irving is Using Endophytic Fungi to Help Tree Seedlings Tolerate Insects and Disease
- MNR’s Natural Heritage Information Centre: Working With Conservation Partners to Track Ontario’s Biodiversity
- From Point Clouds to Decision Making: Putting Lidar to Work in Forest Management
- Bioeconomy doubleheader: A Compendium of Biofibre Processing Technologies, Pathways, Products, and Companies and Bio-oil: Black Gold or Just a Crazy Brown Mix 300? (Cool fact you will learn during this presentation: Liquid Smoke was the first bioproduct derived from wood-based bio-oil! Was first sold way back in 1895!)
- Forest Certification: An Effective Conservation Approach or Just Greenwash?
- The Last Great Forest: The Status of Invasive Species in the North American Boreal Forest (learn about "earthworm lifestyle choices" and more!)
2011
- Establishing Boreal Mixedwood Forests: Using Pre- and Post-harvest Chemical Spray
- Adapting Forests to Climate Change: The Role of Silviculture and Tree Improvement
- How Bright Is the Future, Living in the Shadows? Post-Harvest Residual Stand Structure, Understory Light, and Regeneration Potential in the Boreal Mixedwood Forest
- Taking the Surprise Out of Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest Management: Enhancing Inventory to Capture Forest Structure and Volume
- Cancer Medicine From the Forest: Can Yew Be Harvested Sustainably?
- The Changing Views and Characteristics of Local Citizens’ Committee Members: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2010
- Paleoecology of Canada's Northern Peatlands
- The Ring of Fire: Mineral Exploration and Development Overview and Update on Far North Land Use Planning
- Chequamenon-Nicolet National Forest: A Climate Change Response Framework
- Wishful Thinking? Biological and Governance Complexities Limit American Eel Recovery in Ontario
- Imagery Acquisition for MNR's Forest Resources Inventory Program
- Climate Change and Ontario's Forests: How Can Institutions Build Their Adaptive Capacity
- Vegetation Management Alternatives in Boreal and Temperate Forests: What Do We Know About Releasing Conifers?
