Concurrent
Session Program
Thursday, May 10th
Poster
Presentations
Oral Presentations
Recreation
and Human Dimensions
Ecosystems
Research, Monitoring and Assessement (part a)
Ecosystems
Research, Monitoring and Assessement (part b)
Landuse,
Landscape Change and Planning
Policy and Planning
Fire
Summary of Room
Scheduling
Note:
This program is subject to change.
All rooms will have powerpoint capabilities except
Main Theatre - North.
Poster
Presentations
(Back of BCPV: Main Theatre-North room)
May be
viewed during the following times:
Wednesday,
May 9th (5:30pm -6:30pm)
Other times include:
Wednesday
May 9th, 12:00-1:15pm (over the lunch period)
Thursday, May 10th (10:15am -1:30pm)
Stewardship Planning
for Ontario Parks Legacy 2000 Sites in South Eastern
Ontario
Susan Grigg, Corina Brdar, and Jim Peets
The Paleoenvironmental
Reconstruction of Rondeau Provincial Park: Implications
for Conservation
Sarah Finkelstein and Tony Davis
An Ecological
Dilemma
T.M. Sibbald and K.A. Ireton
Emerald
Lake Prescribed Burn - Quetico Park
Terry Curran and Matt Myers
Research
Strategy for South Eastern Zone of Ontario Parks
Corina Brdar, Susan Grigg, and Jim Peets
Ontario’s
Living Legacy (OLL) Regulations Project – Poster Presentation
John R. Fisher
Ministry
of Natural Resources (OMNR) Display
John R. Fisher
Important
Bird Areas (IBAs) within the Southwestern Zone, Ontario
Parks
Tim Marchand, Nicole Wright, and Angie Horner
A Reconnaissance
Survey and Evaluation of Life Science Resources of
MacGregor Point Provincial Park
Joseph Johnson
A Summary
of Recent Research Activities within the Southwestern
Zone, Ontario Parks
Angie Horner, Tim Marchand and Nicole Wright
Heritage
Resources Centre - University of Waterloo
Gordon Nelson and Heritage Resources Centre
Planning
for the Great Arc in the Great Lakes Region
Gordon Nelson
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Oral
Presentations
Recreation
and Human Dimensions
(BCPV: Victoria Room)
Early
Morning (8:30 am -10:15 am)
Conservation
Values & Attitudes Survey 2000
Heather Anne Paleczny
Viability
of Expanding Ecotourism within Windy Lake Provincial
Park
Holly Heale
Recreation
Resource Assessment in Ontario's Provincial Parks
and Conservation Reserves
Dan Mulrooney
Mountain
Biking in the Mountain Parks: A Situational Analysis
Jan Mosedale
Late
Morning (10:45am – 12:30 am)
Planning
and Management at the Lower Kananaskis River: The
Opportunities and Challenges for Future Management
Megan Squires
Challenges
and Opportunities to Managing Recreation for the Georgian
Bay Island Archipelago
Greg Mason, Stephen Murphy, George Francis
Biodiversity
and Social Benefits in Community-Based Forest Management:
The Leuser Ecosystem, Indonesia
Vince Deschamps
Exploring
Community Dynamics in Protected Areas: The Case of
Dongzhai Nature Reserve in Hainan Province, China
Sarah Kennedy
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Ecosystems
Research, Monitoring and Assessment (part a)
(BCPV: Main Theatre - South room)
Early
Morning (8:30 am -10:15 am)
Assessment
of Pre-Industrial Conditions and Long-Term Environmental
Trends in Park Lakes
Sushil Dixit, Aruna Dixit, John Smol, Leslie Joynt,
John Gunn, and Bill Keller
Monitoring
in the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem
Harvey Shear
Recovery
of zooplankton communities from acidification in Killarney
Park, Ontario, 1972-2000: pH 6 as a Recovery Goal
Carrie Holt and Norman Yan
Water level
Changes and Sand Transport Through a Trough Blowout
at Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario.
Mary-Louise Byrne and Mike Bitton
Late
Morning (10:45am – 12:30 am)
Applying
an Adaptive Management Approach to Ecological Integrity
Monitoring at St. Lawrence Islands National Park
Valerie Blazeski1, Jeff Leggo, Paul Zorn
Integrating
Research and Outreach Initiatives for the Recovery
of the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake in the Greater
Georgian Bay Islands National Park Ecosystem
Darlene Upton, Lisa Moore, Justin Quirouette, and
Paul Zorn
Garlic
Mustard and its Influence on Native Herbaceous Species
Diversity in Point Pelee National Park and Rondeau
Provincial Park
Carrie Firanski, Dawn Bazely, Nancy Falkenberg,
and Saewan Koh
Multiple
Scale Effects of Overgrazing by White-Tailed Deer
(Odocoileus virginianus) in Eastern Deciduous (Carolinian)
Forests:
Saewan Koh and Dawn R. Bazely
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Ecosystems
Research, Monitoring and Assessment (part b)
(BCPV: Canada West room)
Early
Morning (8:30 am -10:15 am)
“Footprints”
in National Parks: Measuring Human Impact in Parks
using GIS.
Yolanda Wiersma
EMAN and
Protected Areas: Cooperating in Providing Information
for Ecozone and Local Ecosystem Management
Hague H. Vaughan and Brian Craig
Capacity
of Ontario's Provincial Parks to Sustain their Large
Carnivores
Charlotte Vasarhelyi, Vernon G. Thomas, and Thomas
D. Nudds
Modeling
the Viability of Black Bears on the Bruce Peninsula,
Ontario, Canada
Eric Howe, Martyn Obbard and James Schaefer
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Land
Use, Landscape Change and Planning
(BCPV: Main Theatre - North room)
Late
Morning (10:45am – 12:30 am)
Landscape
guides for the Niagara Escarpment: a Vehicle for Enhancing
Civic Understanding and Response to Change
Susan Preston and Gordon Nelson
The Archaeology
and Planning of the Great Arc
Robert Von Bitter
Living
Heritage Landscapes: a look at Old Order Mennonite
Communities
Heather Thomson
Linking
Public and Private Stewardship: the Case of the Great
Sand Dunes National Monument Area, Colorado
Gordon Nelson
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Policy
and Planning
(Bethune Art Gallery)
Early
Morning (8:30 am -10:15 am)
Ecological
Integrity: From a Normative Concept to a Framing Concept
for Complex Systems Analysis
David Manuel-Navarrete
Ecosystem
Fragmentation in Ontario: Protected Corridors in Regional
Planning
Christopher J. A. Wilkinson
Conserving
Biodiversity in an Urbanizing Landscape
Lionel Normand and Ken Towle
Criteria
for Creating Protective Parks Legislation: How Does
Ontario Measure Up?
Michelle Campbell and Vernon Thomas
Late
Morning (10:45am – 12:30 am)
The Role
of Biosphere Reserves in Working towards Ecological
Integrity: an Example of Frontenac Axis Biosphere
Reserve
Munju Ravindra
Conservation
Opportunities and Challenges Outside of Los Cusingos
Neotropical Bird Sanctuary and Las Nubes Biological
Station (Southern Costa Rica)
Anna M. Baggio
A Class
Environmental Assessment for Ontario’s Provincial
Parks and Conservation Reserves
D.R. Paleczny and Steven Rowe
A Strategy
to Protect Natural Heritage Features in Southcentral
Region, Ontario
Stuart Mallany
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Fire
(BCPV: Canada West room)
Early
Morning (8:30 am -10:15 am)
Relationships
Between Forest Fires, Habitat Change and Ecological
Integrity in Terra Nova National Park, NF
Robin Bloom, Azim U. Mallik, Keith P. Lewis and
Randy Power
Operationalizing
Ecological Integrity within Ecosystem Management of
Quetico Provincial Park using Prescribed Forest Fires
Matt Myers and Terry Curran
A study
of Prescribed Burns, Tree and Shrub Layer in Oak Savanna
Plant Communities in Southern Ontario (Pinery Provincial
Park, Rondeau Provincial Park Pelee National Park)
Cecilia Tagliavia, Dawn Bazely and Saewon Koh
Preserving
Biodiversity in a Burned Park Forest
Roger Suffling, Beth Parks and Nanao Kachi
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Summary
of Room Scheduling
For May
10th, Concurrent Sessions
Main Theatre
- North room
8:30am - 10:15am: Land Use, Landscape
Change and Planning
10:45am - 1:30pm: Posters (note:
presenters may not be available during this time)
Main Theatre - South room
8:30am - 12:30pm: Ecosystems Research,
Assessment and Monitoring (part a)
Canada West room
8:30 am - 10:15am: Ecosystems Research,
Assessment and Monitoring (part b)
10:45am-12:30pm: Fire
Victoria Room
8:30am - 12:30pm: Recreation and
Human Dimensions
Bethune Art Gallery
8:30am - 12:30pm: Policy and Planning
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