Date

Event

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Monday,

February 23, 2009

4th Annual Niagara Peninsula Forest Health Report

Wellandport Community Centre, Wellandport, West Lincoln

7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Are your trees suffering? Do you want to know why? How healthy are our forests across the Niagara Peninsula! Eric Cleland, OMNR, Loretta Shields, CFIA & Deanna Lindblad, NPCA will brief us on the E. gypsy moth, armillaria root rot, emerald ash borer, Asian long horned beetle, sarix wood wasp, pine shoot beetle & Niagara’s Natural Areas Inventory. Also, Dan Drennan, the Forest Conservation By-Law Officer, NPCA, will brief us on the do’s & don’ts of the revised By-Law. Come & learn with our friends from the Haldimand & Area Woodlot Association. Bring a fellow woodlot owner!! Thank-you Land Care Niagara for you generous sponsorship.

The Wellandport Community Centre is on the east side of Wellandport on the south side of Canboro Road, #5042. (Regional Road 63).

Tel: (905) 714-0723 (Mike Rose, LCN)

Sunday,

March 8, 2009

Tending Saws & Marking Trees Workshop

Peters Family Woodlot, 8352 Sixteen Road, Caistor Centre

9:00 am - noon

This morning workshop & field event will allow you to work on your chainsaw(s) under the supervision of Dave Brown, Dave’s Small Engines, Welland. Dave B. will bring along parts & his sharpener. You will then move outside to get field knowledge of our revised Tree By-Law under the supervision of Dan Drennan, Forester & By-Law Officer, NPCA & Terry Schwan, Forester, OMNR. There’s much more to it than felling a tree. Dress appropriately & bring your chainsaw!!

From Bismark, travel west 13.5 kms on Regional Road 65 (Silver Street) to Caistor Centre Road. Turn north on Caistor Ctr. Rd. & travel 3 kms to Sixteeen Road. Turn east on Sixteen Rd. & the property is 0.7 kms on the south side of the road, #8352.

Tel: (905) 957_3801 (Adrian Peters) or (905) 692_0318 (Bob Oliver)

Saturday,

March 28, 2009

Ontario Woodlot Association’s 16^th AGM:

“Our Forests - Our Commitment to Stewardship”

Royal Canadian Legion, 15 Wright Avenue, Acton

8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Mark this date on your calendar and plan to attend the OWA’s Annual General Meeting and Woodlot Conference. Topics include group selection-harvest systems, woodland amphibians & vernal pools, woodlots under a changing global climate, non-native invasives that are impacting our woodlots & managing for wildlife, as well as, a silent auction. March 2 is the member early bird registration for only $20 & after March 2, $25 for members & $30 for non-members. Registration includes lunch & is mandatory. For more information or to register call Rhonda at 1-888-791-1103 ext. #221. The AGM is always worthwhile.

Any members who would like to join our distinguished group & car pool, please contact Adam Koziol (905) 701_7025 or Paul Robertson before March 21, 2009.

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Monday

April 20, 2009

Movie Night - Winged Migration

Rittenhouse Conference Room, OMNR/OMAF Office, Vineland

7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Everyone who owns a woodlot has a special interest in the animals and birds that visit or live there. The celebrated movie, “Winged Migration”, provides a visually stimulating portrayal of the annual movement of many bird species from their winter homes in the south to the food-rich forests of the north and back again. Following the movie we will have local birders on hand to provide a Niagara perspective and answer questions. There may be a special winged guest or two. If you are “for the birds”, this is an event you don’t want to miss.

The OMNR/OMAF Office is on the north side of the QEW on Victoria Avenue (Exit 52), Vineland.

Tel: (905) 680_3720 (Bryon Dingman) or (905) 386_0220 (Bev Langley)

Sunday

May 24, 2009

Spring Walk @ Fireman’s Park

Fireman’s Park, Mountain Road, Niagara Falls

Noon - 2:00 pm

What would Spring be without a walk in the park? Join our guides. Rick Young and Joyce Sankey of the Niagara Falls Nature Club, as we discover paw paws and butternuts along with other uncommon Carolinian species. We will even visit a rare, remnant prairie. Migrating songbirds will be an added bonus. Bring the whole family for a relaxing and educational afternoon. Dress appropriately & bring your binoculars!!!

From the QEW, take Mountain Road 1.5 km. to Kalar Road. Go north on Kalar Rd. (which at this point is an unopened road allowance) to the parking lot on the left.

Tel: (905) 934_7053 (Vince Goldsworthy) or (905) 892_2385 (Glenn Robbins)

Saturday

September 26, 2009

Fall Forest Festival:

From Tree to Door

Sylvia & Dave Bylsma, Bush & Business, 5313 Sixteen Road, St. Ann’s

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

The festival will begin with a lovely fall walk through the family’s 90 forested acres. You’ll be able to view past management, gypsy moth infestations & recent tree marking. We’ll also watch the processing of a tree, to timber to the construction of a door through the family’s business, “Tree to Door”. And after all that, you’ll be hosting with the Bylsmas a delicious BBQ & social. Please bring your own cutlery!!

The Bylsma property is at 5313 Sixteen Road, 8 km west of Victoria Avenue (Regional Road 24) & 1 km east of St. Ann’s.

Tel: (905) 384-0789 (Paul Robertson) or (905) 734_6466 (Gord McQueen)

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Saturday

November 21, 2009

Annual General Meeting:

The NPCA’s Environmental Role in Niagara

with Tony D'Amario, General Manager

Yerich Theatre, Glendale Campus, Niagara College, 135 Taylor Road, NOTL

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Following the business portion of our AGM (1:00 - 2:00 pm), we will be joined by our friends and hosts from the Niagara College’s Niagara Environmental Corps & Ecosystem Restoration Program students, the Peninsula Field Naturalists, Niagara Falls Nature Club, Bert Miller Nature Club and Fort Erie Conservation Club to hear our featured guest speaker, Tony D'Amario, General Manager, Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority, who’ll present his vision of the role and responsibilities the NPCA will have in shaping the environmental future of the Niagara Peninsula. Non-members are asked to arrive at 2:00 pm. Thank-you Land Care Niagara for you generous sponsorship.

>From Welland travel north on Hwy 406 to St. David's Road exit, east through the Thorold Tunnel where it becomes Thorold Stone Road. Turn left at Taylor Road North (formerly Beechwood Road) and follow down the hill to the College.

From the QEW exit at Glendale Avenue, turn left on Glendale to Taylor Road at the lights, then left on Taylor to the College.

Tel: (905) 957-3801 (Adrian Peters) or (905) 934_7053 (Vince Goldsworthy)

Tuesday

December 15, 2009

Christmas Potluck & Social

Fort Erie Conservation Club, 255 Ott Road, Stevensville

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Please, come join us at the wonderful Fort Erie Conservation Club to celebrate the beginning of winter & the Christmas season. This is our first potluck ever and it will not be a success unless our members, families & friends get involved. Please RSVP with the event organizers listed below before December 8 so the food can be co-ordinated. Cutlery is not required, only your food item & your holiday cheers.

From Hwy 3 travel north on Ott Road to the Stevensville Conservation Area (CA) on the west side of the road.

From Sodom Road turn west on West Main Street & continue to the end & entrance of CA.

Tel: (905) 957_3801 (Georgina Peters) or (905) 386-0930 (Shirley Uyesugi)