Episode Summary:

In this episode, our host, Anne Koven speaks with Lacey Rose with the County of Renfrew in Ontario, Canada. Lacey is a Registered Professional Forester with the province of Ontario. In this episode, we investigate where the wood used in mass timber comes from in Canada, and how Lacey plays a part in ensuring this wood supply is sustainable, and what sustainable forestry really means. This conversation will really help builders and architects contextualize the origins of the wood they use.

About Lacey

Lacey’s work experience has ranged from field work in the Boreal forest, to writing a forest management plan for 250,000 hectares of Crown forest in the Great Lakes St. Lawrence forest, to now the hands-on management of the Renfrew County Forest, as the County Forester. In 2019, Lacey was the recipient of the James M. Kitz Award from the Canadian Institute of Forestry and the Forest Sector Champion Award from the Ontario Forest Industry Association. In 2017, she received the John H. Sellers Award from the Ontario Professional Foresters Association.

Outside of these roles, Lacey is the Co-Founder of Women in Wood, a network for women who work with, in and for the woods, and the host of the web-series “Mighty Jobs”. When she’s not working in the forest, she’s usually still talking about or hanging out in forests!

In this podcast episode, we discuss forest sustainability as it applies to the supply of mass timber to answer questions architects and builders might have such as "How do I know the wood I am getting is sustainable?", and "what is involved in the process of sustainable forest management?". Lacey also addresses important connections between mass timber, forestry, and climate change.

Connect with Lacey:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lacey-rose


• Women in Wood: https://www.womeninwood.ca/

Podcast Page: https://academic.daniels.utoronto.ca/masstimberinstitute/the-mass-timber-today-podcast/