Community Event / Spring Lecture: The Urban Forest in Saanich – Strategy and Stewardship

The Camosun Community Associations presents a free lecture in partnership with the Mount Tolmie Community Association, featuring guest speaker, Ryan Senechal.
Ryan Senechal is an educator and a practicing consulting arborist/ urban forester with experience across municipal, commercial, education and nonprofit sectors. He is a lecturer in the Bachelor of Urban Forestry and Master of Urban Forestry Leadership programs at University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry. 

Speaker: Ryan Senechal
When: Wednesday, May 7th
Time: Doors open at 6:45 pm – Lecture 7-9 pm – includes Q&A
Where: Broad View United Church – 3703 St. Aidan’s St. (enter at lower level at back of church)Cookies, coffee and tea will be provided.
You may read online about Ryan to get a notion of what keeps him active locally using these links:

• Ryan Senechal is a Sessional Lecturer at UBC’s Faculty of Forestry and a practicing consulting arborist/urban forester with experience across municipal, commercial, education, and nonprofit sectors. Scroll down on this page https://forestry.ubc.ca/future-students/graduate/professional-masters-degrees/master-of-urban-forestry-leadership/meet-the-mufl-faculty/
• New housing rules in B.C. trigger fears of ‘catastrophic’ loss of urban trees https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-ndp-bill-44-urban-forests/
• Ryan Senechal: Removing Sequoia Would Violate City of Victoria Policies https://creativelyunited.org/ryan-senechal-removing-sequoia-would-violate-city-of-victoria-policies/, https://martlet.ca/community-fights-to-save-trees-set-to-be-removed-from-centennial-square/, https://creativelyunited.org/an-analysis-of-dialogs-technical-memorandum-on-the-centennial-square-sequoia-tree/
• Remote Sensing: Garry  Oak Species Detection Projecthttps://www.garryoak.info/news