Promoting healthy forests and ecosystems in Bruce and Grey Counties through education, recreation and sustainable management practices.
A new paper published Jan. 13 in Science reveals that the relationship between soil fungi and tree seedlings is more complicated than previously known. Scientists have long known that plants and soil biota can regulate one another, but the new findings highlight the complexity of the feedback loop. Researchers 55 species and 550 populations of …
Continue reading Soil fungi help tree seedlings survive, influence forest diversity.
Coming next Saturday, January 21st in the afternoon at Grey Roots! BGWA has arranged an advance preview screening of this brand new Canadian documentary on the importance of woodlands, featuring Diana Beresford-Kroeger a well-known author, gardener, scientist and tree-lover from eastern Ontario. Click here for event details & registration - BGWA members get in FREE. …
"The world can often seem too complicated for its own good. It’s a big reason why people like you and I live in a rural place, where things are simpler to some degree," writes Dave Mance in Northern Woodlands, "And if we’re going to be good advocates [for wood biomass], we need to hone our …
The annual woodlot conference, held in Elmwood, will take place Saturday, March 25th. The planning committee has already been busy assembling a varied range of speakers and content. Details will be posted on this site when registration opens.
We have exciting events planned for the coming year including a members-only feature movie screening, a Tree-o-Caching series (modelled on the GeoCaching concept), plus of course the usual things you enjoy like the annual conference in Elmwood, members BBQ, and our quarterly newsletter. Please renew (or join, if you are not a member) today to …
