The Upper Trent Valley Chapter (UTV) serves eastern Peterborough and central Hastings Counties. We were the third Chapter of the Ontario Woodlot Association to form, beginning as an informal association of woodlot owners in 1995 and joining the OWA the year after.
Our members own woodlots of varying sizes and forest types. The area served by the UTV is unique, with the area south of Highway 7 being predominantly farmland and to the north is the Canadian Shield, where it is generally rocky with thin soil, with the higher ground often divided by many seasonally flooded valleys and beaver ponds.
The UTV Chapter holds two main events a year, a spring and a fall workshop. Our workshops feature a wide variety of topics. Recent workshop topics have included hardwood crop tree selection, logging practices, identification of forest plants, growing trees from seed, controlling nuisance beaver, and harvesting cedar limbs for oil extraction.
Our focus is on education and our aim is to create more public awareness of the desirability of managing private woodlots in a planned, sustainable fashion. Our method is to provide a friendly environment for sharing knowledge and experiences and to bring woodlot owners and expert speakers together in workshops and woodlot tours. All our events except the annual general meeting are open to the public.
A happy crowd of attendees at our Fall 2004 workshop (Photo Pauline Wilkins)
An outdoor seminar with a local forest consultant discussing tree marking.
(Photo Mark Hoult)
