The Butternut Health Expert Workshop is designed to offer a training replacement for BHA accreditation previously required to assess butternut trees in Ontario for conservation and recovery.
This workshop is geared for those who have participated in previous training as a BHA and would like a refresher and for qualified professionals who have not yet participated in butternut training. This training will increase comfort level in assessing the health of butternut trees using the Butternut Assessment Guidelines.
– This course will cover:
– Method for assessing butternut health
– Legislation and regulations under the ESA with respect to butternut
– Recovery efforts for the species
– Identification of pure butternut vs hybrids
– Using Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks (MECP) forms for reporting butternut assessments

The field portion of the course will allow attendees to practice butternut identification, assessment and reporting skills in a forest setting.
The first half of the workshop will be in-class and the second half of the workshop will be in the field.
See details online here.