The CMFN and the Canadian Institute of Forestry (CIF) presented the J. Michael Waldram Memorial Model Forest Fellowship Award to two deserving students at the CIF's 103rd Annual General Meeting this past September in Huntsville, Ontario. Each annual fellowship is worth $1000 and is open to all Canadian Aboriginal youth who are enrolled in at least the second year of a university or college program in natural resource management.
The 2011 award winners were selected from a host of impressive young applicants. Congratulations to: Katlin Young attending the College of the North Atlantic, and Ernie Last attending the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology.
The J. Michael Waldram Memorial Model Forest Fellowship was established in 2008 by the CMFN in honour of Mike Waldram, General Manager of the Manitoba Model Forest from 1993 to 2006. As General Manager, Waldram strove to enhance the participation of Aboriginal peoples in the Model Forest and in forest resource management. Thanks to CIF for presenting this symbolic award annually and to their President Wayne Kelly for doing the honours.
For more details including applications, please visit: www.modelforest.net and select the Michael Waldram Fellowship button on the bottom of our home page.
