1. Beech Bark Disease in Haliburton County Ernie Demuth Senior Operations Technician BMFC

2. Over 20 years in the Forest Industry Forestry Technician, Fleming College Certified Tree Marker Certified Compliance Inspector Certified Seed Collector Licensed Scaler Plan Approver for the Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program Associate Member of the Ontario Professional Foresters Association

3. The Bancroft Minden Forest Company www.bmfci.ca The Bancroft Minden Forest Company is a private organization owned by the forest industry of the area. It was staffed and incorporated in 1998 to conduct forest management activities on Crown land in the Bancroft Minden Forest Management Unit. The Bancroft Minden Forest Company (BMFC) holds the SFL for the Bancroft Minden Forest Management Unit on behalf of 26 shareholders. The license has a 20 year term, and is renewed every 5 years by the Minister of Natural Resources based on the results of an independent audit of company operations.

4. Our mandate includes: preparing a Forest Management Plan (FMP) every 10 years, with the assistance of a Local Citizens’ Committee. This document outlines projected harvest and renewal activities. MNR also participates in the preparation of the plan and, ultimately approves it. preparing prescriptions for each operation which describe in detail what will take place. monitoring all harvest and renewal operations to ensure compliance with the FMP and many other legislated requirements, and reporting our observations to MNR. renewing areas harvested to standards described in an approved plan and reporting results to MNR. preparing annual reports for approval by MNR which describe our progress in implementing the FMP.

6. Silviculture is the practice of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values. The name comes from the Latin silvi- (forest) + culture (as in growing).

11. Enter Beech Bark Disease

19. The Formation of Beech Thickets "In most forest stands BBD favors the development of dense beech thickets that interfere with the regeneration of other trees (Houston, 1975; Houston, 4 1994a; Garnas et al, 2011), due to beech’s propensity to reproduce vegetatively via adventitious root sprouts, especially from damaged root sprouts (Garnas et al., 2011). Thus in many forests there is actually an increase in beech volume accumulation, particularly 10-20 years after BBD invasion (Morin et al.,2007). In fact BBD represents the first known case where a specialist plant pathogen actually increases the density of its host (Garnas et al., 2011)." http://www.issg.org/database/species/reference_files/bbd com/beech_bark_impacts.pdf

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