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North America’s top

Forest Vegetation

Management Experts &

Risk Management

Strategists come

together to provide your

employees with state-of-

the-art knowledge and

skills that are needed in

today's world.

Training Socio-Economic Impacts Public Perceptions

Risk Assessment & Management Science Caring

Facts Knowledge Media Engagement

Participants completing this course will understand:

The principles of forest vegetation management

The role of herbicides in promoting successful forest regeneration

The effects of plant competition on the growth and development of forest stands

Types and formulations of herbicides available for forest vegetation management

How to select the most effective herbicide to meet a specific silvicultural objective

The latest research on environmental fate of herbicides in the forest environment

Principles of toxicology related to forest herbicides

The most recent understanding on the effects of herbicides on forest wildlife and wildlife habitat

State-of-the-art techniques on how to most effectively apply herbicides and protect the environment

Principles of risk perception and how to engage in successful risk communication with the public

Advanced integrated forest vegetation management and alternatives to herbicides

How to develop a successful forest vegetation management plan using herbicides and the

alternatives

Calibration of equipment, including troubleshooting

UAV (Drone) technology as it applies to vegetation management

Certificate: Each course participant will receive a certificate* that showing they have obtained the most comprehensive training available and demonstrated the skills necessary to practice forest vegetation management. *Attendance to all sessions is mandatory. Credits: Continuing Forestry Education Credits: 28 Registration Information: Cost: $2399 + 5% GST Enrollment is limited to 40 people on a first-come-first-serve basis. We must have your application

in hand and payment received in order to guarantee your spot on this course. Cancellation Policy:

Full refund if you cancel more than 2 weeks prior to course starting 50% refund if you cancel 2 weeks or less prior to course starting If you register 2 weeks or less prior to course starting your course fees are non-refundable

BOOK EARLY AS THIS COURSE WILL SELL OUT

DATE TIME TOPIC INSTRUCTOR

8:15 – 8:30 AM Introduction - Course Objectives and Schedule

Todd MacPherson,

MCFT

Milo Mihajlovich, MEL

8:30 – 10:00 AM

Principles of Forest Vegetation Management

Silvicultural context

Principles of plant competition

Effects on long-term stand development

Costs and benefits

Site selection considerations

Dr. Doug Pitt, DFL

10:00 – 10:30 AM NUTRITION BREAK—CATERED (included in tuition)

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Physical & Chemical Properties of Herbicides

Types

Formulations

Absorption and translocation

Modes & Mechanisms of Herbicide Action

Dr. Ryan Prosser, ECCC

(Lead)

Ron Lemin, CPS

12:00 – 1:00 PM LUNCH (included in tuition)

1:00 – 2:30 PM

Herbicide Prescriptions, Efficacy, & Diagnosis

Herbicide selection

Rate and timing (site prep, release)

Total application volume choices

Selectivity and crop tolerance

Silvicultural efficacy

Diagnosing problems and causes


Ron Lemin, CPS

Dr. Brian Roth, UMAINE

CFRU

2:30 – 3:00 PM NUTRITION BREAK—CATERED (included in tuition)

3:00 – 4:30 PM

Herbicide Application Technology

Methods of application (serial and waving wand)

Sprayer calibration

Nozzles, speed, release height (best practices)

Managing treatment and coverage


Ron Lemin, CPS

4:30 – 5:00 PM Vermilion Forest Management Perspective Doug Maki, VFM

5:00 – 5:30 PM J.D. Irving Perspective Jason Killam, JDI

5:30 – 9:00 PM

Judy Creek Mixedwood Trials (Field Trip)

Stop along the way at Carson Pegasus Provincial

Park for catered dinner.


Dr. Doug Pitt, DFL

Dr. Phil Comeau, U of A

Monday, M

ay 15th

, 2017

DATE TIME MODULE TOPIC INSTRUCTOR

Tuesd

ay May 1

6th

, 2017

8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Field Trip

Board bus and visit sites – Bagged lunch and nutrition

breaks (included in tuition)

Equipment show and tell & data collection

Ground – waving wand

Aerial

Rotary wing/batch truck

UAV / Drones (demo)

Calibration

Exercises

Perform calibration of rotary wing aircraft

Backpack foliar application setup

Troubleshooting – we break it and you fix it


Ron Lemin, CPS

Dr. Brian Roth,

UMAINE CFRU

Jason Killam, JDI

Michael, Cunningham,

EA

6:00 – 8:30 PM

Steak Dinner (included in tuition)

After Dinner talk on invasive plants AISC


Wednesd

ay, May 1

7th

, 2017

8:30 AM – 12:00 PM NUTRITION BREAK AT

INSTRUCTOR’S DISCRETION

Regulatory Toxicology

Human Health Hazard and Risk Assessment &

perceptions about pesticide safety

Risk Perception

Resolving the pesticide controversy

The World Health Organization IARC

designation of glyphosate as a "probable human

carcinogen

The international reaction and position

Dr. Leonard Ritter, U of G


1:00 – 1:30 PM

Federal & Provincial Regulations

The rule and regulation making process

Effective ways to protect riparian zones and other

sensitive areas

Public notifications

Trends in regulation

Vivianne Servant, AEP

1:30 – 2:45 PM Environmental Fate of Herbicides Dr. Ryan Prosser, ECCC

2:45 – 3:15 PM NUTRITION BREAK (included in tuition)

3:15 – 5:15 PM

Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat Effects

Terrestrial

Aquatic

Dr. Thomas Sullivan, UBC

ON YOUR OWN FOR DINNER — ENJOY THE EVENING WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES


Thursd

ay, May 1

8th

, 2017

8:30 – 10:00 AM

Integrated Forest Vegetation Management &

Alternatives to Herbicides

Principles of plant autecology and making vegetation

management decisions

Alternatives to herbicides and their effectiveness /

impacts

Elements of cost comparisons

The Quebec experience and emerging challenges

Dr. Nelson Thiffault, MFFPQ

10:00 – 10:15 AM NUTRITION BREAK (included in tuition)

10:15 – 12:15 PM

Risk Communications (Part I)

Public perceptions of risk

Social acceptance thresholds

Dr. William Leiss, U of O


1:15 – 2:45 PM

Risk Communications (Part II)

Trends - the changing communications landscape in

natural resource sectors

Defining & sharing your story

Meaningful public engagement

Handling difficult conversations with media & the

public

Chrystiane Mallaley,

NATIONAL

2:45 – 3:00 PM NUTRITION BREAK (included in tuition)

3:00 – 5:00 PM

Quality Assurance & Risk Mitigation – Expert Panel

Discussion

Minimizing drift, drift models

GIS data uploads for application navigation

Enhanced use of GIS for treatment management and

monitoring in real time

Onboard "real-time" GPS navigation and

boom on/off data recording

Auto booms

Internal / External Communication

What will the future bring?

Social License

Co-management of land base

UAVs?

Milo Mihajlovich, MEL– Lead

Ron Lemin, CPS

Michael, Cunningham, EA

Dr. Brian Roth, UMAINE

CFRU

Doug Maki, VFM

Jason Killam, JDI

5:00 – 5:30 PM Evaluations and closing comments Todd MacPherson, MCFT


NAME AFFILIATION BIO

MILO MIHAJLOVICH

Mihajlovich Enterprises

Ltd

Vegetation Management Consultant

Silviculturist

Restoration and Reclamation ecologist

First Nations negotiator and trainer

DR. DOUG PITT

DeltaForest Ltd

Research Scientist, Quantitative Silviculture, Canadian Wood

Fibre Centre, Canadian Forest Service (RET).

Adjunct professor of Silviculture and Biometrics, Lakehead

University and University of Alberta.

Honorary Research Associate, School of Graduate Studies,

University of New Brunswick.

Previously:

Advisor to the Canadian Ecology Centre – Forestry Research

Partnership.

Operations Forester and Forest Protection Supervisor, J.D.

Irving Limited.

DR. RYAN PROSSER

Post-doctoral Fellow at

Environment and

Climate Change Canada

Exceptional Reviewer Award from Environmental Toxicology and

Chemistry

Citation from President of Society of Environmental Toxicology

and Chemistry

Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Government Laboratories Program

Member of Editorial Board for Environmental Toxicology and

Chemistry

RON LEMIN

Crop Production

Services - Timberland

Division Vegetation Management Consultant

DR. BRIAN ROTH

University of Maine Acting Director, Cooperative Forestry Research Unit (CFRU)

at the University of Maine (UMAINE).


DOUG MAKI

Vermilion Forest

Management Company

Ltd.

Silviculture Forester at The Vermilion Forest Management

Company Ltd. in Sudbury, Ontario since 1997.

Doug's silviculture program includes aerial application of a

glyphosate product in clearcut areas and a triclopyr product in

white pine shelterwood areas by helicopter.

Advocate for the continued judicious use of herbicides as a

necessary tool in forestry.

JASON KILLAM

J. D. Irving Ltd.

Chief Forester at JDI Ltd

Forest Engineer

Masters in Business Administration

DR. PHIL COMEAU

University of Alberta

Ph.D. in Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia

12 years with the Research Branch of the British Columbia.

Ministry of Forests.

Since 2000 Professor of Silviculture and Stand Dynamics at

University of Alberta.

Research projects

studies of competition dynamics, vegetation management and

mixedwood management options, and effects of overstory

canopies on microclimate and growth of conifer regeneration

in various parts of western Canada, including BC. He is also

actively involved in development of mortality and growth

models for the Mixedwood Growth Model (MGM).

MICHAEL

CUNNINGHAM

Engage Agro Vegetation Management Specialist

Forestry Business & Account Manager


DR. LEONARD RITTER

University of Guelph

Professor Emeritus (toxicology), University of Guelph

Adjunct Professor (toxicology), Chulabhorn Research and

Graduate Institutes, Bangkok, Thailand

Member, United Nations WHO Joint Expert Committee on

Food Additives

Chair, PMRA Lindane Board of Review

Chair, Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on the

Integrated Testing of Pesticides

Member, US EPA Human Studies Review Board

Chair, PMRA External Advisory Panel on Essential Oil-

based Personal Insect Repellents

VIVIANNE SERVANT

Alberta Environment &

Parks

Pesticide Certification Specialist with Alberta Environment

and Parks

Pesticide Certification Specialist for 18 years

Bachelor of Science degree and a Teaching Certificate in

Adult and Continuing Education (both from the University

of Alberta)

Was an inspector, and then an investigator, with Alberta

Environment for years.

8 years in the landscape and tree farm industries.

DR. TOM SULLIVAN

University of British

Columbia

Professor Emeritus, Applied Biology (Appointed Jointly with

UBC Forestry)

Applied Animal Biology, Applied Biology, Integrated Studies in

Land & Food Systems

Studies are concerned with integrated management of wildlife

resources within agricultural and forest environments. In

particular, evaluation of biodiversity and sustainability in a

landscape mosaic of agro-ecosystems and natural habitats is

based on measurement of vegetation, small mammal

communities, and habitat structure.

DR. NELSON THIFFAULT

Direction de la

recherche forestière,

Ministère des Forêts, de

la Faune et des Parcs du

Québec (Forest

Research Branch,

Quebec Ministry of

Forests, Wildlife and

Parks)

Research Scientist, regeneration silviculture, ecology,

ecophysiology

Adjunct Professor, Université Laval, Université de

Sherbrooke, Université du Québec en Abitibi-

Témiscamingue, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Regular Member, Centre for Forest Research


DR. WILIAM LEISS

McLaughlin Center for

Population Health Risk

Assessment,

University of Ottawa

Research Scientist

Fellow and Past-President (1999-2001) of the Royal Society

of Canada

Officer in the Order of Canada.

1999 to 2005 held the NSERC/SSHRC Research Chair in

Risk Communication and Public Policy in the Haskayne

School of Business, University of Calgary

1994 to 1999 he held the Eco-Research Chair in

Environmental Policy at Queen’s University, Kingston,

Ontario.

CHRYSTIANE MALLALEY

NATIONAL

Director at NATIONAL

Chrystiane is skilled in stakeholder relations, issues

management, and strategic planning. Clients benefit from

Chrystiane’s ability to translate complex subjects into

meaningful messages that resonate with key audiences, and

her commitment to building understanding and engagement

to deliver desired results.

Hotel reservations at Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Whitecourt are $109 plus tax per night when you use code CG14FO. Phone 1-780-396-0990 or visit tinyurl.com/mcft2017 to book your room. Deadline for booking your room is April 14, 2017 otherwise full rates apply with no guarantee of room availability. Microtel offers hot complimentary breakfast from 5-9am in the morning and a light dinner from 5-7pm in the evening. They also have a dry sauna, hot tub & enhanced fitness facility.

4915 49th Avenue , Whitecourt, AB T7S 0E8 CA

The conference will be held at St. Joseph Parish Hall 5538 Mink Creek Rd, Whitecourt, AB. It is located 1.6 KM from hotel so transportation will be provided to those of you requiring it.

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Tuition of $2399.00+ 5% GST per participant must be paid in full, two weeks prior to

the course dates. Payment can be made by cheque, purchase order, debit, Visa or Mas-terCard.

Refund Policy:

Full refund if cancelled more than two weeks prior to course start date

50% refund if cancelled two weeks or less prior to course start date

Non-refundable if payment is received less than two weeks prior to course start

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Please email or fax your completed application to:

Todd MacPherson

Maritime College of Forest Technology

1350 Regent Street

Fredericton NB E3C 2G6 | Phone: (506) 458-0649 | Fax: (506) 458-0652 | E-mail: [email protected]

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Gold Sponsor: (2 available) $2,000* each Silver Sponsor: (4 available) $900* each

Sponsor of dinner - two choices available

1) Day 1 - May 15th - Dinner stop at Carson

Pegasus Provincial Park

2) Day 2 - May 16th - St. Joseph’s Parish Church

Hall

Includes:

15 - 30 minute after dinner talk

Table placards

Full-page ad in brochure

Continuous rolling advert / presentation at

conference

Mentioned during workshop

Static display for entire workshop

Sponsor of Lunch - 4 dates available


Hall (SOLD)

2) Day 2 - May 16th - In the field


Hall


Hall

Includes:

15 minute after lunch talk (~12:30 - 12:45 PM)

Table placards

Half-page ad in brochure

Continuous rolling advert / presentation at conference

Mentioned during workshop

Static display for entire workshop

Bonze Sponsor: (11 available) $300* each Static Display: (20 available) $200* each

Sponsor of Nutritional Break - 12 times available


Hall - 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, & 2:30 PM

2) Day 2 - May 16th - In the field - 10:00 AM, 3:00

PM


Hall - 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, & 2:45 PM


Hall - 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, & 2:45 PM

Includes:

1/8th-page ad in brochure

Continuous rolling advert / presentation at

conference Mentioned during workshop

50% off of the price of the static display - no

charge if you sponsor two or more breaks.

A great way for you to reach your target audience.

This workshop will be attended by Vegetation

Managers from Western Canada.

You display must be set up by 5:00PM on Sunday,

May 14th, 2017. Up 10 ft X 10 ft of display space on

conference floor.

Due to location you can only staff your display

when the conference is not in session.

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