3/13/06 Contact:
Jamie Creamer, 334/844-2783 (creamjs@auburn.edu)
David Granger, 334/844-9999 (grangdm@auburn.edu)
LECTURE
TO EXAMINE FOREST SUSTAINABILITY IN CANADA AND EUROPE
AUBURN - Forest sustainability will be the topic of the next Weaver Lecture,
to be presented by Peter N. Duinker on March 16 at 3 p.m. in the Auburn
University Dixon Conference Center seminar room.
Based on 30 years’ experience studying Canadian forests and forestry
and a recent sabbatical journey through forests of Western Europe, Duinker
will highlight important similarities and differences in the way Canadians
and Europeans manage their respective forests. Key topics include timber
harvest and regeneration practices and public participation in forest
decision-making.
The title of Duinker’s presentation is “Canadian and European
Forests and Forestry: A Study in Contrasts in Seeking Sustainability.”
Duinker is professor and former director of the School for Resource and
Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Until June 1998, he was professor of forestry at Lakehead University and,
from 1988 to 1998, was the chair in Forest Management and Policy. Duinker
is a research area leader for the Sustainable Forest Management Network
of Centres of Excellence based at University of Alberta. His research
has focused on old-growth forests in Eastern Canada, and forest-tenure
systems nationwide. He is also manager of the Atlantic Canada office of
the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network.
Duinker will talk about Canadian and European forest sustainability during
the spring presentation of the Earl H. and Sandra H. Weaver Endowment
Lecture Series. The free lecture is sponsored by the AU School of Forestry
and Wildlife Sciences and is made possible by an endowment from Earl H.
and Sandra H. Weaver of Brewton, long-time supporters of Auburn and forestry.
For more information on the lecture, contact the School of Forestry at
(334) 844-1006.
Auburn University is a preeminent land-grant and comprehensive research
institution with more than 23,000 students and 6,500 faculty and staff.
Ranked among the top 50 public universities nationally, Auburn is Alabama’s
largest educational institution, offering more than 230 undergraduate,
graduate and doctoral degree programs.
(Contributed by Jamie Creamer.)
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