Ronnie graduated from the School of Resource & Environmental Management in 1999. His masters project was entitled "Made in the shade: regenerating coastal Douglas-fir and western red-cedar under partial cutting treatments". As a result of this work Ronnie was able to predict growth rates of regenerating trees under various retention levels in partial cuts, as a function of the site type and light environment.
Ronnie is now at the Université du Québec à Montréal, in the 1st year of a PhD with Christian Messier and Yves Bergeron, working on a project entitled "Impacts of climate change on fire and wind disturbances for a deciduous forest landscape in Témiscamingue (Québec)". Previous to this, he worked as a registered professional biologist at the David Suzuki Foundation.
Publications- Drever, R.P. and K.P. Lertzman. 2003. Effects of a wide gradient of retained tree structure on understory light in coastal Douglas-fir forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33: 137-146.
- Drever, RP and K.P. Lertzman. 2001. Light-growth responses of coastal Douglas-fir and western red-cedar saplings under different regimes of soil moisture and nutrients. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31: 2124-2133.
- Drever, R. 2001. A cut above: ecological principles for sustainable forestry on BC's coast. Commissioned by the David Suzuki Foundation. Vancouver, BC.
- Hughes, J. and Drever, R. 2001. Salvaging solutions: science-based management of BC's pine beetle outbreak. Commissioned by the David Suzuki Foundation, Forest Watch of British Columbia (a project of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund), and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society-BC Chapter. Vancouver, BC.