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John McNutt from Westwind’s Board has a starring role in this Forest Products Association of Canada video on forestry and climate change.  If 0.3 seconds can be a starring role, he steals the show. Using sustainable forest products can help make a substantial difference in our climate change future.

Today, our forester intern, Margaret Scott, was at Northern Wilderness Outfitters teaching a grade 12 class about forestry and tree identification. The group learned about silviculture systems, tree marking, protecting wildlife habitat, forest management planning, and possible career paths in forestry. The presentation was followed by a tree identification walk where the class identified over 10 species […]

While completing a harvest audit this week, Westwind staff stopped at an old J.R. Booth log pile. The pine logs would have been harvested in 1910 or even earlier. Pine logging was a very important part of the history of this area but also lead to the degraded forests that we are left with today. The […]

As the leaves change colours and the temperature gets cooler, Westwind staff are out in the field doing assessments on planted trees. Just like children’s checkups, we measure and look at the trees a few times in the first five years to see whether they are healthy and how they are growing.  This allows Westwind […]

Barry Davidson from Westwind and Michael Henry from the Parry Sound District MNRF hosted a Local Citizens Committee tour on Friday, June 23, 2017. The LCC, along with some members of the planning team, learned about beech bark disease, cottagers’ perspectives, and conifer conversion projects. The first stop was the site of a beech regeneration […]

Westwind celebrated a special day a couple months ago.  It was 20 years ago (March 27, 2017) that we received our letters patent as a corporation. Westwind is proud of the milestones – from being the first large public forest FSC certified in Canada to the more recent recognition of the special form of forest tenure […]

  Westwind attended the Almaguin Highlands Career/Trade Fair on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at Almaguin Highlands Secondary School. The fair aimed to provide information on careers and trades that are available locally. Tom Bryson and Margaret Scott spoke to students about various careers in forestry and the relevant post-secondary training and skills. It was great to talk […]

  “Forests Ontario is pleased to offer students a new way to engage with the Ontario Envirothon program through our online Presentation Challenge!” Check out this link to get involved: Presentation Challenge

The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada (CIF/IFC) is coordinating the ‘150 Days of Forests’ Photo Campaign, a national initiative to instill a sense of pride in Canadian forests. Submit a high quality photo of yourself in the forest with a short quote of 50 words or less describing what forests mean to you or simply […]

Westwind Forest Stewardship’s redesigned website has a blog! Our posts will keep you up to date on local events, forestry operations in the French-Severn Forest, wildlife sightings, and much more. If there is a topic that interests you, feel free to browse our blog by category. You can do this by clicking one of the categories […]