The forest protection society against insects and diseases, in collaboration with the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), is pleased to announce the two winners of the 2019 Wladimir A. Smirnoff Scholarship : Anne-Sophie Caron, Concordia University, and Barbara Wong, Laval University. Both of them received $ 5,000 to support their research in the field of biology and integrated management of forest pests (insects and diseases).+
Spread between the North Shore, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie, it is an area of nearly 338 000 hectares that has been treated by the SOPFIM's protection program, on both public and private lands. Following the aerial spraying from mid-July to mid-August, the Ministry of Forests Wildlife and Parks fixed an aerial survey of the annual defoliation caused by the budworm spruce.+
