2025 Annual General Meeting & Special Presentation

Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025
7pm
at Our Virtual Online Presentation

Join us for our Annual General Meeting (2025) and get updates on the society and its activities. Following the official proceedings, we are excited to host a special presentation by Ryan Senechal, Chair of the Garry Oak Meadow Preservation Society.

Registration is required to participate!

Special Presentation:

“Garry Oak species classification within urban forest canopy analysis: a collaboration between GOMPS, UBC, and Terra Remote Sensing”

Garry Oak Meadow Preservation Society is a volunteer-run non-profit based in Saanich, BC that advocates for individual Garry oak and Garry oak ecosystem protection and stewardship. Mapping and analysis of the overall Garry oak ecosystem and individual trees in the Capital Regional District is out of date. LiDAR is a cost-effective, high accuracy method of forest analysis that enables measurements such as change to tree populations through intensifying land development. Our interest is in developing a new approach to map Garry oak species presence using LiDAR and machine learning. By conducting species specific detection analysis to form a species composition baseline, we can enable future analysis opportunities that are Garry oak and Garry oak ecosystem specific. This is an important contribution to a growing body of regional urban forest mapping that could influence changes in tree protection policies (e.g., enhanced existing tree protections and requirements for Garry oak replacement trees through private development), and management and planning for Garry oaks on public property.