Trees of the People: Cottonwoods around the Crown of the Continent
#1. Trees of the People: Cottonwoods around the Crown of the Continent
Date: Thursday, January 22 at 12 pm PT / 1 pm MT.
Presenter
Stewart Rood, PhD, Professor of Environmental Science, University of Lethbridge
Stewart Rood has been a Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Lethbridge for four decades, following studies at the Universities of Alberta, Calgary, and Toronto, and fellowships in England and Norway. His research focuses on riparian ecosystems, with analyses of woodland ecology and river hydrology. He has worked with agencies across western North America that own and operate dams, to provide functional flows that balance environmental conservation and economic outcomes.
Stewart is also an avid river kayaker, and his wife Dianne will tell you that he studies cottonwoods as an excuse to go paddling.
The Crown of the Continent surrounds the convergence of British Columbia, Alberta, and Montana, with headwaters for rivers that flow to the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. Cottonwoods are riparian poplar trees, and the Crown provides a global center of their biodiversity, with four species and their hybrids. Stewart will introduce their ecology and adaptations and describe successful restoration applications that have delivered environmental flows from regional dams.
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