Dear colleagues in IUFRO Division 9 We begin with our sincere hopes that you, your families and your friends and colleagues are all managing to stay healthy (physically and mentally) during the pandemic. The simple phrase “How are you?” has gained new importance for us all. We are all struggling with Covid-19 in our own countries and workplaces and it is inevitable that planning IUFRO activities has not been a priority. In a pandemic, virtual events offer possibilities, but planning these and organising the web-based platforms still takes more time than many of us have. To overcome this, we have arranged a partnership with the organisers of the 20th Commonwealth Forestry Conference to include sessions for members of Divisions 9 and 6. This virtual conference is being hosted by University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada from 16-19 August 2021. More information is available here https://cfc2021.ubc.ca/ . We are inviting you to join this conference with a 10 minute pre-recorded presentation (uploaded in advance) and by participating in a live discussion during daylight hours in your own part of the world. Although the conference is English, we think that pre-recording presentations will help everyone who is not a fluent English-speaker. Registration costs are very low, ranging $ 12 to $ 80 US. Please see the invitation attached. You do not have to be a resident of a Commonwealth country to participate in CFC2021. Please contact Stephen Wyatt, Janette Bulkan or the CFC2021 organisers for more information. Monica Gabay Coordinator Division 9 Ian Rotherham Coordinator RG 9.03 Stephen Wyatt Deputy coordinator RG 9.03 stephen.wyatt@umoncton.ca<mailto:stephen.wyatt@umoncton.ca> Janette Bulkan Coordinator WP 9.03.07 janette.bulkan@ubc.ca<mailto:janette.bulkan@ubc.ca> Stephen Wyatt Professeur agrégé / Associate Professor École de foresterie / School of forestry Université de Moncton, campus d’Edmundston Edmundston, NB, Canada stephen.wyatt@umoncton.ca<mailto:stephen.wyatt@umoncton.ca> +1 506 737 5243 http://professeur.umoncton.ca/umce-wyatt_stephen/ ‪<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=fr&user=t8XQA08AAAAJ>Research Gate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Wyatt> , Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=fr&user=t8XQA08AAAAJ> Je reconnais que j’habite et que je travaille sur le territoire non cédé des Wolastoqiyik, gardiens traditionnels de ces forêts, terres et rivières. I acknowledge that I live and work on the the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, traditional custodians of these forests, lands and waters. L'information contenue dans ce courriel (y compris les pièces jointes) est confidentielle et vise uniquement son destinataire ou ses destinataires. Toute autre distribution, copie ou divulgation est interdite. Si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez nous en aviser et éliminer ce courriel, ainsi que les pièces jointes, de votre système informatique et de vos dossiers.