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Eastern Ontario Certified Forest Owners 8th Annual General Meeting
February 27th, 2010
Watson's Corners Hall
$15 for non EOCFO members
$10 for Students and no charge for EOCFO members
8:30am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am - 9:10am Welcome & EOCFO Board update by Tony Bull
9:10am - 9:30am Update from Eastern Ontario Model Forest GM Mark Richardson
9:30am - 9:45am Update of the Forest Certification Program - Scott Davis
9:45am - 10:15am Ecological Goods and Services .... Recognizing Landowner Contributions
Elizabeth Holmes
10:15am - 10:35am Break
10:35am - 12:00pm Helping woodlot owners make sense of fact and fiction in the carbon market Stephen Mitchell and Yvan Champagne - Blue Source Canada
12:00pm - 1:00pm - Lunch provided
1:00pm - 2:00pm - Business Meeting of the EOCFO
Keynote Presentation There has been a lot of talk over the last several months about climate change, carbon credits, and the potential opportunity for forestry-related projects. Many in the Forestry sector hope that the potential of being paid to not cut down trees can help them weather the severe downturn in the Forestry sector. Many woodlot owners hope that seeing forest for more than just fibre and lumber will provide new options for forest owners in how they manage their forests. To understand what opportunities are out there for woodlot owners
Please join us for a talk entitled: Seeing the Forest for the GHG's: Helping woodlot owners make sense
of fact and fiction in the carbon market. Yvan Champagne, VP, Eastern Canada, Blue Source Canada
and Stephen Mitchell Principle, Sustainable Forests Consulting.
We will answer questions such as:
- What is a carbon offset?
- What is forest carbon project?
- How does it work?
- What activities actually qualify?
- What opportunities exist for smaller woodlot owners?
About Blue Source Canada Operating in the US and Canada, Blue Source offers businesses multiple
approaches for reducing and managing greenhouse gas emissions. Blue Source provides access to capital to
fund project development, works with companies on developing projects and oversees production of long-term
Verified Emission Reductions (VERs). Blue Source Canada is a leader in Canada's domestic offset
opportunities with an extensive supply portfolio having registered or sold over 5 million tonnes of emission
offsets from projects across Canada. Blue Source Canada's technical division is also a leader in providing
technical expertise for protocol development and offset identification. Blue Source has been a leader in the
North American Forest Carbon market, having recently listed the first Forestry project using the new Climate
Action Reserve 3.0 Forestry Protocol, launching the innovative "Working Woodlands" program for woodlot
owners in the United States with The Nature Conservancy, and being part of the largest publicly announced
purchase of offsets in the US in 2009, a transaction that including the sale of Forest-based offsets.
About Yvan Champagne, Blue Source, Vice President - Eastern Canada
Yvan is an experienced leader and entrepreneur in carbon markets. His broad experience includes GHG
project screening, assessment and contracting, advising companies and organizations across Canada on
sustainable environmental strategies and programs, government relations consulting in the energy sector,
public affairs and marketing, and building early-stage companies. Yvan is a graduate of the joint Kellogg
School of Management-Schulich School of Business Executive MBA Program, and obtained his B.A. in
Political Science from Yale University with a focus on environmental policy and business-government
relations. From a Forestry perspective, Yvan also studied graduate-level Silviculture at the Yale School of
Forestry & Environmental Studies to complement his 4 seasons of reforestation experience in Northern
Canada.
About Stephen Mitchell, Sustainable Forests Consulting, Principal
As a Forest Management Consultant operating out of Callander, Ontario, Stephen is involved in a number of
Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) initiatives. After receiving his Master's in the Environment and
Management through Royal Road's University he now practises as an FSC Auditor for Smartwood, MFTIP
Approver, FGCA Certified Seed Collector, Certified Mediator in Environmental Conflict Resolution matters and
has completed coursework in soil analysis, silviculture and tree marking amongst other things. He is a
volunteer board member of the Greater Nipissing Stewardship Council, the Near North Chapter of the OWA
and the Canadian Institute of Forestry's Algonquin Chapter. As a woodlot owner Stephen has been focusing
his efforts on building a business case for SFM practices on private lands.
Scott Davis
Forest Certification Coordinator
Eastern Ontario Model Forest
(613) 258-8422
www.eomf.on.ca
For more details please view the PDF:
Eastern-Ontario-Certified-Forest-Owners_February-AGM.pdf
Ryan Downer is a second year Carleton University student studying Environmental Science. Ryan volunteered at the Eastern Ontario Model Forest and authored a research paper outlining the International Model Forest Network, the Canadian Model Forest Network, the Eastern Ontario Model Forest and the Forest Certification Program. Ryan assisted Scott Davis the Forest Certification Coordinator with a post harvest assessment of a recently harvested woodlot in the Spencerville area. Click here to read Ryan's report.
Urbión Model Forest and the International Model Forest Network (IMFN) Secretariat are collaborating to "tell the Model Forest story"-publish the evidence of impacts Model Forests are registering globally through a series of articles written by experts in their fields. The new publication would help increase the visibility and awareness of Model Forests as unique and effective tools for sustainable development and natural resource management at a landscape scale in a manner that would share our impacts with the international community and better position the initiative to continue to make important contributions- individually and collectively - to key sustainability challenges. Scott Davis submitted this Abstract to the International Model Forest Network on behalf of the Eastern Ontario Model Forest: click here to download.
Click here for a summary and statistics on EOMF's Forest Certification Program that includes both private and community forests.
Click here for a quick Fact Sheet that provides an overview on the Forest Stewardship Council, who they are, and what the internationally recognized FSC Certification is about.
If you are a private woodlot owner, and are interested in finding out more about FSC certification and what it has to offer then please refer to this document entitled: A Guide to Forest Stewardship Council Certification for Private Woodlots in Ontario
If you are interested in FSC certification for a community forest than please refer to this informative and colourful document entitled: A Guide to Forest Stewardship Council Certification for Community Forests in Ontario
A very interesting and beneficial initiative that EOMF helps promote and administer on behalf of forest product producers throughout the supply chain is explained here in two documents:
Click here to view the Eastern Ontario Model Forest's 168 page Information Report entitled: Forest Certification and Policies & Procedures Manual - For Private Woodlot Owners, Community Forests, and Small Wood Processors within the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Forest Region
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