This is a recap of our program from November 24th, 2020. For those of you who missed it, here is the PowerPoint presentation. Usually, we try to get recordings of our programs but there were some technical difficulties. We hope you can attend our next program for a more complete presentation!
SUMMARY
“The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a wood-boring insect native to western North America and attacks a wide range of pine trees including lodgepole, ponderosa, western white, whitebark, limber and jack.” — Government of Canada
This past summer BVN volunteered to assist in monitoring Mountain Pine Beetle activity in the Canmore area. Our speaker, Louis Price presented information on the status of Mountain Pine Beetle activity in the lower Bow Valley and possibly told some tales of other ecosystem interactions going on around us in the forests of Southern Alberta.
GUEST SPEAKER
Louis Price: Louis Price is a forest health officer with Alberta Environment and Parks. He was born and raised in central Newfoundland in a town called Grand Falls-Windsor where he was surrounded by endless wood trails right outside his back door. Due to his exposure to nature, he went on to study Forestry and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick. Upon finishing his degree, Louis did a significant amount of technical forestry training which lead him to his position as a forest health officer today.