EMEND Workshop & Field Tour 2024

EMEND Knowledge Synthesis Workshop

On May 22, 2024, practitioners and researchers convened in Grande Prairie to share and discuss lessons learned from EMEND to date, as well as discussing how these findings might be brought into practice and what questions or gaps remain. On May 23, participants visited two Mercer cutblocks near Peace River, Alberta and discussed retention design in the context of what they discussed the day before.

Jaime Pinzon (NRCAN-CFS) presents the key findings related to biodiversity from EMEND.

A breakout group discusses how the key findings related to carbon dynamics could be applied operationally, and what steps are needed to do so.

Field tour participants examine a block layout map while visiting a recent Mercer cutblock with structural retention.

Field tour hosts and participants smile at the end of a discussion-filled day in the boreal mixedwood forest.