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My Early Years
I grew up in the boreal forest of Newfoundland where I spent much of my childhood and teen years wandering in the bush behind our house and accompanied my maternal grandfather on his trapline and on moose hunts.
1-Ken, in your book Into the Woods-My Life in Forestry you offer excellent insights into your very early interest in forests and the natural environment and that your Dad worked in the Timmins area in the mining sector. As a result, do you think you have a special attachment to northeastern Ontario?
A forest history tour through the St. Williams Conservation Reserve and Backus Woods.
On February 17th, in conjunction with the annual Forests Ontario conference ‘Growing a Healthy Tomorrow’, in Alliston, Ontario, Forest History Ontario hosted a very well received panel of expert speakers on aspects of Ontario’s forest history.
Join Forest History Ontario for a live speaker panel - Historical Forest Landscapes Across Southern Ontario
By Dave Lemkay
Herb Shaw and Sons Ltd. is purported to be the oldest continuously operated family lumber business in Canada. It’s unlikely that there’s anyone around who can dispute that.
Members of the former Ontario Shade Tree Research Laboratory commemorated the 10-year passing of Erik Jorgensen with the planting of an ironwood in the courtyard of the Earth Science Centre of U of T.
Forest History Tour 2023
Back by popular demand and given the success of this year’s tour in the York and Durham Regional Forests, FHO is organizing a tour of the St William’s area for the spring of 2023.
