Preliminary Program NOVEMBER 19-21, 2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS LATORNELL CONSERVATION SYMPOSIUM

Morning · Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Lunch · Thursday, November 21, 2019

Rebecca Thomas Dr. Peter Beckett Mi’kmaw Poet and Activist Restoration Ecologist

Rebecca Thomas is a Mi’kmaw poet and activist who does not want to be Peter Beckett has a Ph.D in wetland ecology from King’s College, London, a poet or activist. She just happens to be good enough at poetry and UK. For 40 years he has been a restoration/reclamation ecologist and persuasion to get people to listen but her ultimate goal is to make wetland specialist at Laurentian University in Sudbury, , Canada. Canada a better place for her Indigenous community because so many He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and in the people tend to forget they were here first. Vale Living with Lakes Centre. Peter has been a member of Vegetation Enhancement Technical Advisory Committee (VETAC) since 1978 and is She has accidentally found herself as the Poet Laureate of Halifax currently serving as Chair. VETAC is an Advisory Panel to The City of (2016-2019). She has performed with a Tribe Called Red and has Greater Sudbury that oversees the local landscape restoration projects spoken and lectured at conferences and coffee houses from coast to and the transformation of the image of the City following impacts of coast. She writes kids books about growing up the child of a residential mining and smelting. He has worked on reclamation projects on many school survivor. She has written for the CBC and Washington Post but has mine sites and around smelter locations across northern Ontario together yet to make a chapbook. She pays her bills by working as a Senior Consultant for with numerous graduate students. Diversity and Inclusion with the provincial government. She’s collaborated with composer Laura Sgroi to bring together a three poem story and full orchestral score which had its debut with the Kitchener Waterloo Peter has been a President and Director of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association (CLRA) and Symphony in the spring of 2019. holds a Noranda Award for “outstanding achievements in reclamation” and in 2016 was awarded The Watkin Award for Reclamation by the CLRA and Pioneers in Reclamation Award by the American Society She also feels real uncomfortable writing bios about herself. She’s done some other things here and there of Mining and Reclamation. Peter is an honorary member of the China Land Reclamation Society. He but has reached her tolerance for hearing her accomplishments listed off. is Co-Chair of the Sudbury International Mining and Environment Conferences. He teaches courses in restoration ecology, biostatistics, wetland ecology as well as leading many field trips for local, national and international visitors to local wetlands, forests and restored/reclaimed sites.

Dr. Beckett has given numerous invited presentations on and participated in conferences discussing aspects of the Sudbury Protocol world-wide, including Canada, United States, Peru, Chile, Hong Kong, Lunch · Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Australia, China, Russia, United Kingdom and other European countries.

Dave Meslin Political Entrepreneur & Engagement Specialist

Using non-traditional methods and creative tactics, Dave Meslin spent twenty years as a social and political entrepreneur leaving a trail of non-profit start-ups, campaign victories, viral videos, new magazines, and public space interventions in his path.

An urbanist, community organiser, author and trainer, Meslin inspires us to invert the traditional pyramid of hierarchy by creating meaningful opportunities to engage our employees, our members, and our students. His thesis is simple: We’re stronger and smarter when we’re all involved. Transforming top-down leadership into bottom-up collaboration is the true challenge of the 21st century.

1 2 DAY ONE TUESDAY • November 19, 2019

Soils, Soil Health and Communications, Marketing Natural Heritage and Workshops and Field Workshops and Field Watershed Management Change Management Nutrient Management and Outreach Stewardship Tours Tours T1A ROOM 2 T1B ROOM 7 T1C ROOM 8 T1D ROOM 1 T1E ROOM 9 T1F ROOM 11 T1G ROOM N/A

Do You Know What’s in Your What’s New from ‘In the Field’ Un-complicating the Case Studies in The Only Constant is Innovations in Tile No Session Taking Place Water? Soil Health Research? Complicated Innovative Conservation Change – The Evolution Drainage: Lessons Practice of Conservation from a Huron County Intentionally left blank Pollutants in water supplies From the field to the stream, the Learn how to unpack big and Authorities Demonstration Farm could overwhelm our capacity to identification and management innovative ideas by using strategic Cases of successful detect, treat or provide warnings. of nutrient sources remains an and collaborative approaches. conservation practice If you don’t know where [Panel] How can municipalities work exciting area of investigative from across the region you’ve come from, you with conservation authorities effort. This session will provide will be presented by don’t know where you’re Innovations in controlled and Source Water Protection to a summary of recent research Demystifying Conservation representatives from going. Join this session drainage design may understand these materials and in nutrient source loadings and Strategy: How Credit Valley different sectors. Cases will for retrospectives on the be the key to improving their impact on public health? Are transport from a practical, in-field Conservation Made Easy highlight the role of multi evolution of land and water rural water quality. While 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM conservation authorities equipped perspective. Reading of Hard Ideas stakeholder partnerships, conservation in Ontario controlled drainage can to provide this service and what is Brad Fauteux collaborations and and hear how conservation work on flat fields in the provincial policy framework? Credit Valley Conservation innovative funding authorities have weathered Ontario, it hasn’t yet been What’s New in Soil and Water programs in achieving changing environmental, installed or studied on Research for Ontario Agriculture? Responding to the Need for stewardship outcomes. economic, social and steeper slopes. This panel Tom Scott Darryl Finnigan Resilience: Lessons Learned political circumstances. session will review the Rideau Valley Ministry of Agriculture, around Communicating Climate What can our past teach us installation and findings of Authority (Retired) Food and Rural Affairs Complexity Protecting the about our future? three innovative systems Glenn Milner Cheltenham Badlands installed on a 60 acre George Scott Working with Farmers to Protect Savanta Inc. through Partnership demonstration farm near Niagara Beeway Municipal Drinking Water in the Kathy Hering Conservation by the Clinton, ON. Township of Tiny, Severn Sound Modern Marketing for People: The Origins and Melissa Carruthers Results: Lake Simcoe Region @ONheritage Future of CAs Severn Sound Environmental Conservation Authority’s Grant Chris Jones Panel Moderator Association Program Communications Marketing in the Muck Central Lake Ontario Melisa Luymes @SSEA_SSRAP Overhaul - Restoration Success in Conservation Authority Headlands Ag-Enviro Melissa Rosato the Holland Marsh Phosphorus Loading Trends in Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Lori McLean and Nancie The Evolution of Matt Williams the Upper Medway Creek Authority Knight Water Management in Williams Drainage Dr. Imtiaz Shah Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authorities Incorporated Upper Thames River Conservation Conservation Authority Mark Peacock Authority Lower Thames Valley Mari Veliz and Ankita Hazarika Sustainable Urban Conservation Authority Ausable Bayfield University of Western Ontario Neighbourhoods: Conservation Authority A Pathway toward The Succession of Collaborative Science, Policy and Rick Kootstra Neighbourhood Socio-Economic Huron County Soil and Transformation from Drivers to Watershed Crop Improvement Peterborough, Ontario Management Association Heather Ray Bob Morris Peterborough GreenUP Credit Valley Conservation Association

3 4 DAY ONE TUESDAY • November 19, 2019

Soils, Soil Health and Communications, Marketing Natural Heritage and Workshops and Field Workshops and Field Watershed Management Change Management Nutrient Management and Outreach Stewardship Tours Tours T2A ROOM 2 T2B ROOM 7 T2C ROOM 8 T2D ROOM 1 T2E ROOM 9 T2F/T3F LOBBY T2G/T3G LOBBY

Aquatic Habitat, Water Quality What’s New in Academic Soil Connecting People to Nature Protecting Land and Changes to the Forest Therapy – Take a Endangered Species Site Monitoring and Water Security – Health Research? Water: From Regional to Conservation Authorities Walk in the Woods Walk What Does the Data Tell Us? Explore how some organizations Grass Roots Efforts Act From on-farm policies to online are using environmental education [Field Trip 2 PM-5:15 PM] [Field Tour 2 PM- Watershed scale aquatic nutrient capture technologies, to connect students, youth, seniors This session will explore This session will provide an 5:15 PM] monitoring, long-term water quality this session will highlight some and newcomers to nature through approaches to protecting update on changes to the This field trip provides the monitoring in Ontario and source of the latest academic research the development of innovative and assessing the state of Conservation Authorities background introduction of Early successional pine water collaboration between surrounding the preservation of programming. land and water resources Act and implications for Forest Therapy Walks and forests were the result First Nations, municipalities and our soil and water resources. at various scales from conservation authorities, will allow participants to of naturally occurring conservation authorities. Join regional analyses and municipalities and other get out of their heads and and intentionally set 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM this session to find out what the An Innovative Stormwater benchmark creation to partners. into their senses by being fires by First Nations information tells us and what part Challenges of Phosphorus Loss Education and Community community-based grass immersed in a natural people. These processes collaboration plays. Management from Agriculture Monitoring Program roots efforts. setting. have been replaced by John FitzGibbon Mike Hannah Key Changes to the human development, University of Guelph EnviroPod Conservation Authorities forest management in Advancements in Design of The State of Large Parks Act and Moving Forward Walk Group Leaders the absence of fire and Watershed Scale Monitoring of Power in Policy: Measuring Sustainability Self-Guided Tour: in Ontario’s Golden Bonnie Fox Stana Luxford Oddie a new range of species Aquatic Habitat Farmland Loss in Ontario and A Climate Action Awareness Horseshoe Conservation Ontario Cataraqui Region that has changed the Les Standfield Testing the Strength of the Initiative Deborah Martin Downs Conservation Authority face of southern Ontario’s EcoHealth Solutions Act Lorena Canales and Judeen Credit Valley Conservation The Municipal and Kristie Virgoe ecosystems significantly. Rachel Singer and Xiaoyuan Wan Meikle and Jenn Court Government/CA MOU: Kawartha Conservation This walk will provide first Mining the Value from Our Long- University of Guelph Ryerson University Green Infrastructure Partnerships that Work hand examples of these Term Water Quality Monitoring @LORENACANALESM Ontario Coalition Cathie Brown changes and endangered Network in Ontario Greenhouse Tomato Plant Roots/ @GreenInfraON Association of species in these areas. Georgina Kaltenecker Carboxymethyl Cellulose Method Preparing for Change – Municipalities of Ontario Ministry of the Environment, for the Efficient Removal and Redefining Outreach and Introducing Raresites: Conservation and Parks Recovery of Phosphate from Education for a Changing A Community-Based Peter Burke and Laura Agricultural Waste Water Demographic Watershed Approach We would like to Williamson Collaborative Source Water David Ure Heidi Breen and Judy Coultes- to Protecting Lands acknowledge Forests Savanta Inc. Protection between First University of Windsor MacLeod and Water in Waterloo Ontario as the Forest Nations, Municipalities, and The Regional Municipality of York Region-Wellington Therapy – Take a Walk in Conservation Authorities for @YorkRegionGovt Robert Orland the Woods Tour sponsor. Local Water Security Orland Conservation Natalya Garrod and Stephanie Sobek- University of Guelph Swant RARE Charitable Research Reserve

5 6 DAY ONE TUESDAY • November 19, 2019

Soils, Soil Health and Communications, Marketing Natural Heritage and Workshops and Field Workshops and Field Watershed Management Change Management Nutrient Management and Outreach Stewardship Tours Tours T3A ROOM 2 T3B ROOM 7 T3C ROOM 8 T3D ROOM 1 T3E ROOM 9 T2F/T3F LOBBY T2G/T3G LOBBY

Exploring an Indigenous Restoring Healthy Soils Taking Science to the People Moving from Individual Digital Transformations Forest Therapy – Take Endangered Species Site Relationship with Water to Institutional – Building Capacity and a Walk in the Woods Walk (Continued) When not done properly, urban Learn about effective community Stewardship: Cases from Efficiency (Continued) [Workshop] and agricultural development can engagement and citizen across the Province [Field Tour 2 PM- lead to significant soil degradation science projects, including tools Digital transformations [Field Trip 2 PM-5:15 PM] 5:15 PM] Participants in this workshop and loss. Join three practitioners for implementation such as This session will present are influencing how will be introduced to Indigenous from the field to learn more about smartphone technologies. multi-scalar approaches conservation organizations This field trip provides the Early successional pine ways of knowing and Indigenous how to preserve and rebuild to fostering environmental engage clients, work with background introduction of forests were the result relationships to water. An healthy soils in any landscape! stewardship behaviours in partners, and leverage the Forest Therapy Walks and of naturally occurring exploration of water, its Guiding Urban Communities individuals and institutions environmental data that will allow participants to and intentionally set 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM significance, ways you can help in Climbing the Ladder of from local incentive underpins their programs get out of their heads and fires by First Nations and why this is important will Regenerative Soil Solutions and Engagement in Environmental programs to mobilising and projects. Join this into their senses by being people. These processes connect participants into post Increasing Awareness for the Conservation key actors and supporting session to hear how immersed in a natural have been replaced by workshops that are connected to Soil Sponge Kate Goodale regional governance technology is improving setting. human development, waterwalking, water conservation Jaime Douglass Toronto and Region Conservation structures. the productivity, efficiency, forest management in and water protection. Jenkins Soil Authority and quality of conservation the absence of fire and work. a new range of species The Regeneration Revolution Increasing Conservation Building Community that has changed the Kim Wheatley - Building Soil Health, Authority Capacity through Through Local First face of southern Ontario’s Anishinaabe Cultural Consultant Sequestering Carbon and Citizen Science: A Citizen Nations Fisheries on the Digital Transformation: ecosystems significantly. Increasing Biodiversity through Science Nearshore Monitoring Great Lakes A This walk will provide first Regenerative Farming Project Case Study Chirag Patney, Sheri Journey hand examples of these Thorsten Arnold Debbie Balika Longboat, and Nicolas Hassaan Basit changes and endangered Ecological Farmers Association of Kawartha Conservation Brunet Conservation Halton species in these areas. Ontario @kawarthaconserv University of Guelph and Kaushik Chaudhuri @SheriLongboat Tata Consultancy Services Science Meets Art: Improving the When and How Are Smartphones Canada Inc. State of and Sediment Helpful for Environmental Bird-Friendly Certified Control Design Monitoring Hay Program - 5 Years of Database Creation Bill Trenouth Mark Andrachuk Implementation and Management with AECOM Wilton Consulting Group Jordan Graham Limited Resources @BillTrenouth @MarkAndrachuk Credit Valley Conservation Lesley McDonnell Hamilton Conservation Improving Farm Stewardship Strategies for Success Authority Programs through for Conservation – Case Understanding Farmers Study Restoring Shorelines with Melisa Luymes Tunde Otto the Help of Technology Headlands Ag-Enviro Willow Park Ecology Centre Chloe Lajoie Watersheds Canada @WatershedsCAN

7 8 DAY TWO WEDNESDAY • November 20, 2019

Soils, Soil Health and Natural Heritage and Municipal and Workshops and Field Workshops and Field Watershed Management Green Technologies Environmental Nutrient Management Stewardship Relationships Tours Tours W1A ROOM 2 W1B ROOM 7 W1C ROOM 8 W1D ROOM 1 W1E ROOM 9 W1F ROOM 11 W1G-W4G ROOM 18

Fish Habitat - Restoration and High Tech Dirt: Tools for Soil Helpful or Over-Hyped? Applications and Talk Dirt to Me: The The Psychology of Aggregate Resource Policy Health & Nutrient Management Stormwater Management in the Advances in eDNA Latest Tools, Technology Spaces Planning and ‘Internet of Things’ Era (Part 1) and BMPs for Rehabilitation Fish habitat management and New tools, guidelines and Preventing, Tracking and [Workshop] restoration can be a challenge. approaches have been developed Join us as we showcase projects [Workshop] Assessing Erosion Risk [Workshop and Tour This session will examine to reduce erosion, increase soil which utilize actively-controlled, Over the past six years, 8:30 AM-4:45 PM] alternatives to restoration using health and mitigate unintended internet-enabled stormwater Join us for this half-day Learn how and where Ascentia has been case studies as well as provide nutrient transport. Join us to learn management technologies, and workshop which builds UAV surveying can experimenting with a The morning session updates on recently listed about a few! as we explore whether these on last year’s introductory be used in place of new way to engage presentations will Federal aquatic species at risk, emerging SWM solutions live up to session on environmental traditional land surveying communities to identify the provide attendees with:

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM tools for project screening and the hype! DNA to explore its for tracking erosion and invisible, unspoken and an introduction to the Federal funding programs that The Next Generation Nutrient practical uses, applications other environmental hidden needs, and then aggregate industry, support aquatic species at risk Management Planning Software and challenges to programs; how real- redesign outdoor spaces, extraction operations and conservation and recovery. Kevin McKague Stormwater Smartgrids: implementation. time stream gauges are through a co-creation the aggregate planning Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Distributed Adaptation to Flood being combined with GIS process. Ascentia plays process; an overview Food and Rural Affairs and Drought using AI & IoT Asset and other technology with a range of approaches of current planning and Rocky Ramps - Managing Managed Infrastructure on Workshop Moderator to determine where including conscious design regulatory issues in the Socio-Political Expectations and Harnessing Big Data Analytics to Private Property Rob Hanner to dispatch inspectors and social innovation to aggregate industry; and Change to Provide Alternatives Improve Watershed Protection Kevin Mercer University of Guelph following storm events challenge current thinking a presentation on the to Dams Mark Fisher RainGrid Inc. to track erosion damage about the purpose and completed comprehensive Matthew McCombs Council of Great Lakes Region @RainGridInc Environmental DNA threatening municipal role of public spaces, study on aggregate site Matrix Solutions Inc. and Chris Hilkene Methods for Detecting infrastructure and other especially parks, as well rehabilitation. This will and Michael Yee Pollution Probe Distributed Adaptation to Flood Species at Risk Fish public assets; and as how to both design include a presentation Rideau Valley Conservation and Drought using AI & IoT Asset Dr. Scott Tarof construction site turbidity the space and engage on biodiversity offsetting Authority Nutrient Recommendations Managed Infrastructure on Azimuth Environmental monitoring best practices the public. By calling out related to aggregate from the Great Lakes and St. Private Property Consulting, Inc. and targets in the new for different perspectives proposals which introduces Advancing Conservation Lawrence Collaborative Mark Palmer ESC Guide for Urban from the community, a the afternoon field trip to and Recovery of Fishes and Sarah Rang Greenland International Consulting Monitoring the Ecological Construction. new framework emerges Duntroon Quarry where Freshwater Mussels in the Lower Blue Water Consulting Engineers Condition of Urban/ that provides a fresh story a forest biodiversity Great Lakes Area Agricultural Watersheds and missing experiences offsetting project is Shelly Dunn and Shawn Staton Stewardship and Decision Using eDNA, a Case UAV Surveying along with guidelines underway. The afternoon Fisheries and Oceans Canada Making – Will the ‘Internet Study in the Laurel Creek Moranne McDonnell, and considerations for session will consist of @FishOceansCAN of Things’ Deliver for Subwatershed Cathy Eden, and Cody designing public spaces. a field tour to Duntroon Municipalities? Steve Hill and Christina Purchase Innovations in stormwater Quarry to view an active Paul Gallaway Myrdal Toronto and Region optimization and climate quarry operation as well as GHD Dougan and Associates Conservation Authority change are also realized visit an offsetting program through this approach. The involving unique and STREAM: Sequencing The Flood Risk Analysis Town of Newmarket has aggressive techniques Rivers for Environmental Network been the site of a number to create healthy and Assessment and Matt Johnston and David of co-creation projects diverse woodlands. The Monitoring Gingerich through the iWonder tour will visit a nursery Chloe Robinson Toronto and Region Framework. where plant material for University of Guelph Conservation Authority the project is sourced and the opportunity for Turbidity Monitoring on Mitch Harrow scenic views in the Niagara Construction Projects, Ascentia Escarpment area of Erosion Risk Assessment Clearview Township. Tool Hilary Van Welter Lisa Rocha Ascentia Toronto and Region See 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Conservation Authority time slot for list of @STEPLivingCity speakers 9 10 DAY TWO WEDNESDAY • November 20, 2019

Soils, Soil Health and Natural Heritage and Municipal and Workshops and Field Workshops and Field Watershed Management Green Technologies Environmental Nutrient Management Stewardship Relationships Tours Tours W2A ROOM 2 W2B ROOM 7 W2C ROOM 8 W2D ROOM 1 W2E ROOM 9 W2F ROOM N/A W1G-W4G ROOM 18

Changes Over Time - Watershed Civil Defense...for Soil! Citizen Data-Driven: Assessing Application and Stormwater No Session Taking Place Aggregate Resource Plans and Floodplains Soil Health Science the Performance of Green Advances in eDNA Management 2020: It’s Planning and Stormwater Infrastructure (Part 2) Not Black and White - It’s Intentionally left blank Rehabilitation A History of Ontario Floods Reveals Citizen science is great for More Grey and Green (Continued) Huge Changes. This presentation data collection and program Ever wonder what’s under the [Workshop] will highlight the process taken deployment across broad areas, hood when it comes to green This session presents the [Workshop and Tour to update watershed plans in the making it perfect for agricultural stormwater infrastructure? This Join us for this half-day case for municipalities 8:30 AM-4:45 PM] Central Lake Ontario Watershed landscapes. This session will session will help you get a better workshop which builds to proactively plan for as well as review the results of a present three new tools for understanding of GSI performance on last year’s introductory a sustainably funded See 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM study that considered the changes community engagement and and the factors that influence it. session on environmental stormwater program, time slot for session in floodplain characterises from program implementation. DNA to explore its how private property description 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM the traditional spring freshet practical uses, applications stormwater controls are events to the now more frequent Performance and Cost and challenges to being monitored and intense summer based events in Citizen Scientists Explore the Effectiveness of Retrofitted implementation. examined in conjunction W1G Workshop Ontario. Roots of Soil Health Roadside Biofilter Swales in with traditional wastewater Sharon Armstrong and Ruth Knight Brampton, Ontario and storm drainage Ashlee Zelek Soil Health Coalition Dean Young Workshop Moderator systems to help inform Ontario Stone Sand & A History of Ontario Floods and Mark Eastman Toronto and Region Conservation Rob Hanner future municipal program Gravel Association Reveals Huge Changes Credit Valley Conservation Authority University of Guelph decisions, and how a new Trevor Dickinson @SoilRegenRuth Life Cycle Costing Tool can W2G Workshop University of Guelph Dual-Benefit, Unique Approach What If... How be used to compare green Anne Guiot and Michael Using Drone and Geomatics for Lake Protection – Harvesting Else... Integrating against grey infrastructure. Wynia Updated CLOCA Watershed Technology to Better Stormwater Restores Shields Environmental DNA into Skelton, Brumwell and Plans Communicate Ecosystem Health Lake Applied Ecology Associates Jackie Scott and Jamie Davidson Amanda Hutter Olivia Sparrow Jen Petruniak Planning for a Central Lake Ontario Conservation University of Guelph Emmons & Olivier Resources Dillon Consulting Sustainably Funded W3G/W4G Tour Authority and Martin Millen Canada Inc. Stormwater Program Ken Lucyshyn Matachewan First Nation and Jay Michels A ‘Molecular Canary’ in Pippy Warburton Walker Industries Emmons & Olivier Resources Inc. Facilitating Management AECOM Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: @LivMSparrow of Ecosystem Health Kevin Elwood How a Focus on Community- Mario Thomas Municipal, Conservation Clearview Nursery Rooted Social Networks Field Assessment of Precision Biomonitoring Authority, and Private Simultaneously Communicates Performance of Bioretention @eDNAmonitoring Partnerships in Advanced and Drives Stewardship Systems for Reducing Nutrient Adaptive Management Behaviour and Outcomes Loading in Urban Storm Water The Influence of Study Nicholas Keast Tori Waugh Jaeleah Goor Variables on eDNA Greenland International The Ontario Soil Network University of Western Ontario Survey Results: Redside Consulting Engineers Dace in Irvine Creek, Ontario, Canada Building the Business Jay Cashubec Case for Green AECOM Stormwater Infrastructure @CashubecJay with STEP’s LID Life Cycle Costing Tool Update Kyle Vander Linden and Kyle Menken Credit Valley Conservation

11 12 DAY TWO WEDNESDAY • November 20, 2019

Soils, Soil Health and Natural Heritage and Municipal and Workshops and Field Workshops and Field Watershed Management Green Technologies Environmental Nutrient Management Stewardship Relationships Tours Tours W3A ROOM 1 W3B ROOM 7 W3C ROOM 8 W3D ROOM 2 W3E ROOM 9 W3F/W4F LOBBY W1G-W4G LOBBY

Web-Based Data Access - Adapting The ‘4R’ Nutrient Put Your Road on a Low-Salt New Tools for Natural Stormwater Forest Therapy Walk: Aggregate Resource Changing the Way We Manage Stewardship Approach for Diet! Heritage Conservation Management 2020: It’s Indigenous Focus Planning and Water Resources (Part 1) Ontario’s Farmers Not Black and White – Rehabilitation Road salt application is a major Join us in this session It’s More Grey and Green [Field Trip 1:30 PM- (Continued) This is a 2 part session that [Panel] issue contributing to water quality as we explore new tools (Continued) 4:45 PM] will review the Oak Ridges impairment, but it also helps to and methodologies to [Workshop and Tour Groundwater Management Tracing nutrients from the edge safeguard human life. Can viable better understand, analyze This session highlights new Carolynne Crawley, 8:30 AM-4:45 PM] Program and how the data from of the field to Lake Erie only tells salt alternatives be found, and a and manage our natural management approaches Forest Therapy Guide, this program is being made half the story. This panel session better balance struck? heritage resources in to storm and wastewater Mentor, and Trainer for the See 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM accessible through an interactive will detail how the nutrient Ontario. Floristic Quality management. Join us Association of Nature and time slot for session 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM website where mapping, graphing, management industry has stepped Analysis, Climate Change to learn how one city Forest Therapy Guides description data downloads, cross-sections, up to ensure that what is applied Non Toxic and Non Corrosive Vulnerability Assessment obtained ECA approval and Programs will start etc., are all made readily available to our land is done in a responsible Dust Suppression and Ice Melts and a Wetland Assessment on a subwatershed-wide the session with a talking to water managers. manner. Rob Irvine Tool will all be discussed. scale for its existing and circle that will focus upon See 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Advanced Environmental Solutions preapproved stormwater breaking down colonial time slot for list of works, and how another ways of thinking and speakers An Overview of the Oak Ridges Panel Moderator The Art of Balance: Managing Floristic Quality Analysis: city is using a community- interacting that separate Moraine Groundwater Program Nicole Rabe Salt Using Linear Green An Under-appreciated based compliance people from their natural – Comprehensive Water Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Infrastructure in Environmentally Tool for Assessment and management framework surroundings. Afterwards, Management for Ontario Food and Rural Affairs Sensitive Areas Monitoring in Ontario for its onsite rural septic Carolynne will guide a @RabeDigitalFarm Bill Trenouth Sarah Mainguy system re-inspection Forest Therapy walk from Steve Holysh AECOM North-South Environmental program. In this session an Indigenous perspective Oak Ridges Moraine Groundwater Dale Cowan @BillTrenouth Inc. we’ll also learn about to support participants to Program Ontario Certified Crop Advisor using specific vegetation in slow down and connect Association Thinking Differently stormwater management with all beings by building Rick Gerber @SCSAgronomy About Wetland ponds used to optimize reciprocal relationships Oak Ridges Moraine Groundwater Assessment in Ontario year-round treatment with the land. Program James Leslie efficiencies. Savanta Inc. Note: Please dress Mason Marchildon appropriately for the Oak Ridges Moraine Groundwater Step Towards Adapting Cameron Curran weather by wearing Program to Climate Change: University of Guelph layers as it is a slow Natural Systems moving walk. Vulnerability Assessment Shawna Chambers & Applications City of London Namrata Shrestha Walk Group Leader Toronto and Region Kevin Stevens Carolynne Crawley Conservation Authority Wilfrid Laurier University Msit Nokmaq and Luke Parsons Certified ANFT forest C.F. Crozier & Associates therapy guide, mentor and Consulting Engineers trainer @CrozierEngineer

We would like to acknowledge Forests Ontario as the Forest Therapy Walk: Indigenous Focus Tour sponsor.

13 14 DAY TWO WEDNESDAY • November 20, 2019

Soils, Soil Health and Natural Heritage and Municipal and Workshops and Field Workshops and Field Watershed Management Green Technologies Environmental Nutrient Management Stewardship Relationships Tours Tours W4A ROOM 9 W4B ROOM 7 W4C ROOM 8 W4D ROOM 1 W4E ROOM 2 W3F/W4F LOBBY W1G-W4G LOBBY

Web-Based Data Access - Let’s Hear it from Farmers Tools and Technologies Making the Business Urban Ecosystem Forest Therapy Walk: Aggregate Resource Changing the Way We Manage for Green Infrastructure Case for Ecological Management and Indigenous Focus Planning and Water Resources (Part 2) [Panel] Assessment, Standardization Restoration: Assessing Restoration (Continued) Rehabilitation and Management the ROI from Three Local (Continued) Hosted by OSCIA, this panel This is a 2 part session that Case Studies This session will focus on [Field Trip 1:15 PM- will review the Oak Ridges of leading-edge farmers will This session will highlight both restoration management 4:45 PM] [Workshop and Tour Groundwater Management share their experiences and tools and standards developed What are the economic in the urban context, from 8:30 AM-4:45 PM] Program and how the data from lessons learned as it relates to assist professionals working impacts of restoration designing landscapes Carolynne Crawley, this program is being made to the implementation of at various scales: from the work? This session details for a ‘net gain’ of natural Forest Therapy Guide, See 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM accessible through an interactive emerging conservation and boots on the ground to regional a project to evaluate the heritage features and Mentor, and Trainer for the time slot for session 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM website where mapping, graphing, nutrient programs and practices. government scales. Learn how business case for three functions, to effectively Association of Nature and description data downloads, cross-sections, Come learn what has worked data is collected, organized, local ecological restoration managing environmentally Forest Therapy Guides etc., are all made readily available and how we improve program and synthesized to inform projects undertaken by significant areas in cities, and Programs will start to water managers. implementation going forward! standards and make decisions to TRCA, Hamilton CA and to best management the session with a talking See 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM address 21st century stormwater Kawartha Conservation. practices involving invasive circle that will focus upon time slot for list of challenges. The project considered species management breaking down colonial speakers The Future of On-Line Water Panel Moderator different aspects of using manual, mechanical ways of thinking and Management - Moving Forward Angela Straathof restoration, including flood and chemical treatment interacting that separate Ontario Soil and Crop Going Against the Flow through avoidance and recreation techniques. people from their natural Steve Holysh Improvement Association Streamlining Data Collection opportunities to come up surroundings. Afterwards, Oak Ridges Moraine Groundwater Methods with ROIs and consider Carolynne will guide a Program Kelsey Banks Rhonneke Van Riezen how ROIs can help to sell a Town of Milton Forest Therapy walk from Laurel Lea Farms AECOM restoration project. Restoration Framework an Indigenous perspective Rick Gerber General Commodity: Grains and Jim Dougan to support participants to Oak Ridges Moraine Groundwater Pumpkins London’s LID Strategy - from Dougan & Associates slow down and connect Program @KelseyBanks Pilot Projects to Design Tom Bowers and Nick Assad with All Beings by building Standards Greenbelt Foundation Conservation Halton reciprocal relationships Mason Marchildon Dave Ferguson Adrienne Sones with the land. Oak Ridges Moraine Groundwater Walnut Acres Farms Ltd. City of London Mark Anielski Managing Program General Commodity: Grains and Oil Anielski Inc. Environmentally Note: Please dress Seeds, Pasture, and Woodlot Exploring York Regions Significant Areas in appropriately for the Steve Davies Green Infrastructure Asset Scott Peck Growing Urban Centres weather wearing layers Cole Engineering Group Ltd. Claire Ross Management Plan Hamilton Conservation Jen Petruniak as it is a slow moving Ross Enterprises Kyle Heeley Authority Dillon Consulting walk. Blythe Reiha General Commodities: Free Range The Regional Municipality of York The Regional Municipality of York Turkeys, Chicken Eggs, Grains Debbie Balika Best Management Kawartha Conservation Practises for Invasive Andy van Niekerk @kawarthaconserv Plant Removal: Lessons Conforza Farms from the Field General Commodity: Hogs and Clifton Coppolino Robert Canning Cash Crops Toronto and Region Severn Sound Conservation Authority Environmental Association

15 16 DAY THREE THURSDAY • November 21, 2019

Natural Heritage and Municipal and Environmental Watershed Management Climate Change Natural Channels Workshops and Field Tours Stewardship Relationships TH1A ROOM 2 TH1B ROOM 7 TH1C ROOM 8 TH1D ROOM 1 TH1E ROOM 9 TH1F/TH2F ROOM 11

Innovative Practices for Climate Change: Flooding and Application of Novel Methods in Latest in Biodiversity Research - Municipal Strategies for Wampum Belts Related to Floodplain Mapping, Flood Adaptation Planning Watercourse Restoration Northern and Rural Ontario Addressing the Truth and Anishinaabe History Forecasting and Watershed- Reconciliation Calls to Action Scale Criteria for Flood Control Climate change adaptation is one Historic degradation of urban This session presents the latest [Workshop 9 AM-12:00 PM] of the most important issues facing channels leaves us with lasting research into new survey techniques [Workshop] Explore current practices and municipal, provincial, and federal challenges, but also opportunities and studies focusing on northern and Brian Charles is an off-reserve real-life examples of floodplain governments today. Session to implement progressive rural areas in Ontario. Presentations Reconciliation with Indigenous Band member of the Chippewas of mapping, real-time monitoring will explore: deriving future restoration approaches. Join us as include research on wavyrayed Peoples is an immense national Georgina Island and has worked to enhance flood forecasting climate IDF curves for the Metro we review two such opportunities lampmussel, fungal diversity, swallow undertaking. Join us for this collaboratively with a small group and approaches to establishing Vancouver area and performance from within the GTA that aim to species and more! informative half day workshop to of knowledge keepers to research watershed-scale criteria for flood of a historical rainfall analysis, and achieve sustainable management learn how cities and communities and assemble a physical repository 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM control. using a risk management approach and restoration through across Canada are forging new of wampum belts that document for climate change adaptation considering multiple scales in Monitoring Post-Breeding Swallow relationships with Indigenous Ojibwa history. The presentation will planning. space and time and promoting Roosts in Southern Ontario Peoples along a path of illuminate how wampum was used Recent Updates to Flood sustainable sediment dynamics Aly Hyder Ali and and Ted Cheskey reconciliation based on cooperation, to record not only relationships and Plain Mapping at Hamilton with transport continuity between Nature Canada empathy and respect. treaties between the First Peoples of Conservation Authority Automatic Tool for Deriving reaches. @AlyHyderAli1 the Eastern Woodland, but also with Jonathan Bastien Current and Future IDF Curves settler societies in Canada. Hamilton Conservation Authority and Design Storms Wavyrayed Lampmussel Gary Pritchard, Allyson Bingeman Assessing Geomorphic Distribution in the Lower Speed Cambium Aboriginal Real-Time Hydrometric GHD Conditions to Build Towards River - Investigation of Survey Doug Saccoccia, Brian Charles Monitoring to Enhance Flood a Multidisciplinary Watershed Techniques County of Peterborough Educator Forecasting and Warning in the Using a Risk Management Management Strategy: Case Courtney Beneteau and Kaitlin Hill Watershed Approach for Climate Change Study in Fletcher’s Creek, Parsons Curve Lake First Nation Tim Kuntz Adaptation Planning Brampton, Ontario Credit Valley Conservation Allison Barrett Matthew Vetta and Jason Freshwater Food Web Recovery GHD Krompart Responses A Contemporary Approach to Credit Valley Conservation Jade Dawson Establishing Watershed-Scale Laurentian University Criteria for Flood Control Nearly Natural Channel Design: @JCDawson Aaron Farrell Realigning Two Urban Partially- Wood Confined, Semi-Alluvial Shale Fungal Biodiversity within Coarse Bedrock Channels Woody Debris in Northern Ontario Elisa Bernier Boreal Forests Conservation Halton Saskia Hart and Emma Buckrell Laurentian University Aquafor Beech @SaskiaCHart

17 18 DAY THREE THURSDAY • November 21, 2019

Natural Heritage and Municipal and Environmental Watershed Management Climate Change Natural Channels Workshops and Field Tours Stewardship Relationships TH2A ROOM 2 TH2B ROOM 7 TH2C ROOM 8 TH2D ROOM 1 TH2E ROOM 9 TH1F/TH2F ROOM 11

Water Use, Water Conflict and Building a Foundation: Innovative Methods in River Latest in Biodiversity Research Valuing Nature: Fish Habitat Wampum Belts Related to Water Management: What Have Deriving Local Climate Change Management – Urban and Suburban Banking and Ecosystem Anishinaabe History (Continued) We Learned? Projections and Guidance for Environments Compensation use by Durham Region and This session will cover the [Workshop 9 AM-12:00 PM] Join us for an overview of 3 Greenbelt Municipalities application of some emerging This session presents the latest Learn why DFO is moving toward projects that provide specific approaches in natural channel biodiversity research to inform the fish habitat banks as the preferred Brian Charles is an off-reserve examples of water management The NECCC secured funding design and river management, management of Ontario’s flora and method of compensation, and Band member of the Chippewas of relating to water budgets and (Greenbelt Foundation) to update from substrate sizing to the use of fauna, focusing on biodiversity how ecosystem compensation is Georgina Island and has worked conflicting land uses, snow climate change projections across LiDAR and remote sensing drone like pollinators, amphibians and determined and managed in the collaboratively with a small group management and disposal, the Regions watersheds. Results technology to providing economic managing invasives in urban Toronto Region to ensure that of knowledge keepers to research and phosphorous control on a from this modelling will be a incentives for riparian buffers in environments. restoration is strategic, guided by and assemble a physical repository

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM watershed wide basis. foundational piece to all climate agricultural settings. science and reflective of natural of wampum belts that document change work in Durham Region. system objectives. Ojibwa history. The presentation will Project will include the completion Monitoring of Wildlife Tunnels (and illuminate how wampum was used Beyond Source Water Protection: of a guidance document that will Getting out from under the Rock: Associated Fencing) to Maintain to record not only relationships and A Case Study of Water Budgets be distributed to all Greenbelt Benefits of Site Specific Design Connectivity for Amphibians in an Fish Habitat Banks Will Change the treaties between the First Peoples of in Whitemans Creek municipalities. Rhonneke Van Riezen, Jay Urbanizing Landscape World of Stream Restoration the Eastern Woodland, but also with Stephanie Shifflett Cashubec, and Jhalmar Maltez Samantha Hughes Brad Fairley settler societies in Canada. Grand River Conservation Authority AECOM North-South Environmental 5 Smooth Stones Restoration Inc. Ian McVey Snow Management/Disposal Region of Durham Reach for the Sky! Fluvial Floral Resource Competition Striving to Restore a Living City - Facilities – Lessons Learned Geomorphological Applications between Native Bees and Ecosystem Compensation in the from Inception to Operations Jade Schofield of LiDAR, Remote Sensing and Honeybees in Toronto Urban Environment Dilan Singaraja Natural Environment Climate Drone Technology Sarah MacKell Kelly Jamieson and Noah Gaetz GHD Change Collaborate & Town of Rhonneke Van Riezen York University Toronto and Region Conservation Whitby AECOM @MacKellSarah Authority 99,000 Solutions and a Two Stage Ditch Is Just One: Conducting a Climate Change Fruit and Nut Trees: New Crops Benefits of Non-Natives: A Prioritizing Watershed-Wide Analysis at the Local Scale: and an Approach to On-farm Recognition of Evoling Times in the Solutions to Rural Non-Point Lessons Learned from Durham Riparian Buffers Urban Context Source Pollution Region Ronda Boutz and Chris Craig Chris Morrison Jay Michels Frances Delaney South Nation Conservation StormWaterForestry Emmons & Olivier Resources Inc. Ontario Climate Consortium @SouthNationCA and Olivia Sparrow Emmons & Olivier Resources Canada Inc. @LivMSparrow

19 20 DAY THREE THURSDAY • November 21, 2019

Watershed Management Climate Change Natural Channels Natural Heritage and Stewardship Municipal and Environmental Relationships

TH3A ROOM 7 TH3B ROOM 2 TH3C ROOM 8 TH3D ROOM 1 TH3E ROOM 9

Building a Circular Economy for Climate Change Impacts to the Good Things Happening: Case Green Infrastructure & ReconciliACTION Protecting Our Resources: Tools, Case Studies and Phosphorous Great Lakes Shoreline Studies in Channel Restoration Recommendations for Municipalities In 2017, a unique partnership was created with the [Panel] Climate change is anticipated Looking for some inspiration? Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, the University of Join us this informative session for tools, innovative to cause hydrologic patterns to Look no further! This session Toronto (UofT), and Toronto and Region Conservation suggestions, and case studies related to source water Join this panel discussion on change from natural trends along will explore two projects where Authority (TRCA) - resulting in the creation of the ‘Nikibii protection programming at the municipal level, natural how to start to build the circular the Great lakes. Learn about an degraded channel systems are Dawadinna Giigwag’ Indigenous youth employment heritage and biodiversity preservation through the economy of phosphorus. The innovative methodology that being restored to achieve multiple and internship program. Come hear the story first hand Official Planning process, and tackling the toughest discussion will be based on provides a quantitative assessment goals including reducing habitat about this successful ReconciliACTION: the importance issues facing the Great Lakes today and in the future. experiences in Europe and would of the impact of climate change on fragmentation, enhancing fish of the program, how it was initiated, and how it is being 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM include the production, use, coastal flooding on the shorelines passage, improving water quality, implemented - from three of the four women who co- and re-use of phosphorus, from of the Great Lakes, and a first improving sediment transport lead this work. York Region’s Source Water Protection: Past, Present, agricultural and municipal sources. approximation macrophyte-based and watercourse functions and and Future How do we keep phosphorous wetland hydrologic vulnerability maintaining or restoring wetlands. Colleen Barfoot in the economy and out of the index for Great Lakes marshes. Learn about the challenges Panel Moderator The Regional Municipality of York environment? encountered and partnerships that Sheila Boudreau were formed along the way. EOR Inc. Natural Heritage Action Plan: Prioritizing Actions to A First Approximation @SheilaBoudreau Implement Official Plan Policies on Natural Heritage Panel Moderator Macrophyte-Based Wetland and Water Resources Sarah Rang Hydrologic Vulnerability Index Overcoming Barriers for Fish Elder Whabagoon Leah Lefler and April Nix Blue Water Consulting for Great Lakes Marshes: Migration & Stream Health - Lac Seul First Nation, University of Toronto City of Guelph Assessing Potential Vulnerability The Beeton Creek Restoration @Whabagoon @LeahLefler Phil Dick to Climate Change Experience (Combining @anix0913 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Kristen Harrison and Sarah Community Stewardship, Green Liat Margolis Food and Rural Affairs Mainguy Infrastructure and Science) University of Toronto Great Lakes and St.Lawrence Collaborative North-South Environmental Inc. Silvia Pedrazzi Nicola Crawhall Charlie Lalonde South Simcoe Streams Network | Westbrook Public Affairs Thames River Phosphorus Impact of Climate Change Nottawasaga Futures Reduction Collaborative on Coastal Flooding on the and Fred Dobbs A Better Significant Woodland Size Criterion: Going Shoreline of Great Lakes Nottawasaga Valley Conservation beyond a Total Cover Approach Pat Donnelly Pat Prodanovic Authority Kristen Harrison City of London GHD North-South Environmental Inc. How Second Creek Got Its Ed Weinberg Groove Back - 10 Years of ESSRE Consulting, Inc. Holistic Restoration at the Terra @EdEssre Cotta Conservation Area Paul Villard GEO Morphix and Mark Hendry Credit Valley Conservation

21 22 DAY THREE THURSDAY • November 21, 2019

Watershed Management Climate Change Natural Channels Natural Heritage and Stewardship Municipal and Environmental Relationships

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Costs and Benefits of Water Climate Change Plans Through Enhancing Environs: Supporting Post-Construction Restoration Projects: Elements of Measuring Impact: Developing Key Performance Management in Ontario’s Collaboration Species Using Natural Channel Success Indicators for Environmental Projects and Programs Greenbelt Design Principles Two unique adaptation and action Successful rehabilitation and restoration of disturbed Join us for a progressive information session on Peel The session will present results plans: First Nation communities This session will describe land is especially important given that development is Region’s journey of alignment and accountability for its from a two-year project examining within the Williams Treaty Territory completed restoration works on unlikely to slow in the near term. This session explores climate change programs through to the development of how agricultural climate adaptation area that identified specific creeks in Hamilton, Milton and post-construction restoration initiatives to draw lessons key performance indicators (KPIs). Learn how KPIs can measures can influence regional health vulnerabilities, related to Brampton with a focus on fish and identify the necessary elements of success that can help your municipality or CA to make smarter business water availability and how or being exacerbated by climate passage and habitat, including be applied to restoration projects across Ontario. decisions about the programs it invests in! understanding how adaptation change, and The Muskoka Climate a discussion of the feasibility 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM measures can influence water Change Action plan that was of restoring redside dace to allocation trade-offs during developed with elements from subwatersheds where they have Creation of Diverse Wetland Habitats Post Aggregate Christine Tu and Learie Miller regional supply shortages. strong partnerships with the local become extirpated. Extraction Region of Peel Watershed Council and District Melissa Cameron Health Unit. Stantec Derek Robinson Rehabilitating Lower Spencer @Stantec University of Waterloo Creek - the Challenges and Made in Muskoka: A Different Compromise Required for Vegetation and Wildlife Biodiversity Achievements Jeff Wilson Approach to Climate Change Success When Working on Fixing Five Years Post-Construction in Southern Ontario’s Green Analytics Action Plans Urban Streams Largest Built Urban Natural Heritage System: Mount Kevin Boyle Colin Oaks Pleasant, Brampton Tom Bowers The District Municipality of Hamilton Conservation Authority Melanie Randolph and James Leslie Greenbelt Foundation Muskoka @Hamilton_CA Savanta Inc. and Christy Doyle District of Muskoka and the Weir Removals, Natural Channels Coordinated Rehabilitation Master Plan (RMP) Muskoka Watershed Council and Floodplain Restoration in the Wayne Caston Greenbelt University of Waterloo Climate Change Health Nigel Finney and Mary Anne Young Adaptation Project - Conservation Halton Dougan & Associates Addressing Health Impacts and Vulnerabilities within Natural Channel Design for First Nations Communities – a an Aquatic Species at Risk vs. Collaborative Approach Nature’s Engineer: Case Study of Kerry-Ann Charles Mount Pleasant, Brampton Cambium Aboriginal Dr. Trevor Pitcher and Brenda Armstrong University of Windsor Simcoe Muskoka District Health Mark Heaton Unit Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (Retired) and Noel Boucher Savanta Inc.

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