Tree Seed and Climate Change Survey

You can help ensure a proper plan for managing our tree seed resources under climate change: Just take a few minutes to complete our survey here!

On November 14-15, 2007, in Sault Ste. Marie, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Climate Change Initiative and Forest Genetics Ontario are hosting a conference on

Adapting to Climate Change: Managing Tree Seed in an Uncertain Climate

(To register for the conference, see the link in the story below).

This conference will focus on seed movement and regulation tools (guidelines/zones), the science behind identifying and predicting patterns of adaptive variation response to climate change, the need to revise seed movement decision-making, and reforestation aspects of management planning under climate change.

By completing our survey, YOU can help the conference and our future plans succeed: You can help ensure the success of this conference by giving organizers and speakers more insight into how people think about and are acting on seed management and climate change. Preliminary survey findings will be presented at the conference along with presentations by Canadian and American experts in climate change and genetic resource management.

Whether or not you plan to attend the conference, we would like your views on this important matter. To complete the survey, click here.