Ambika Tenneti, Foresty PhD student, explores ways to make Toronto’s urban forests, ravines more inclusive
Ambika Tenneti, a PhD student at U of T, is investigating community engagement in the city’s urban forests, looking specifically at factors that lead to inclusion or exclusion among immigrant communities (photo by Don Campbell). Ambika Tenneti, a PhD student in the forestry department at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, was […]
Nature poetry book published by Paul Aird, Professor Emeritus
When Paul Aird applied for an academic position at the Faculty of Forestry in 1974 after twenty years as a research scientist in Quebec’s forestry industry, interviewers never asked him about creative writing. As Aird went on to become Professor of Forest Conservation Policy, his poems, stories and fables about the natural world quietly accumulated […]
FGSA publishes guide to trees on the St. George campus
The Daniels Faculty’s Forestry Graduate Student Association (FGSA) has published the third edition of Guide to Campus Trees, a field guide for trees and shrubs on the University of Toronto’s St. George campus. The guide is both a point of interest for those visiting and walking the campus, and a useful learning tool for incoming forestry grad […]
Danijela Puric-Mladenovic acts as Urban Forest Lead in first-of-its-kind study: “Natural Climate Solutions for Canada”
Dr. Danijela Puric-Mladenovic, assistant professor in the Daniels Faculty’s forestry program, has contributed to the recently published study “Natural Climate Solutions for Canada” led by global conservation organization the Nature Conservancy, and its Canadian affiliate: Nature United. The study was published in Science Advances and details an array of low-cost natural climate solutions that “are broadly […]
The Leaflet: FGSA’s monthly newsletter (June 2021)
Click here for the June 2021 edition of the Leaflet: June 2021 – Leaflet Issue 4
The Daniels Faculty announces the appointments of two new tenure-track forestry professors
The Daniels Faculty is pleased to announce the appointments of two new tenure-track faculty members to its forestry department. Rasoul Yousefpour will join the Faculty as an assistant professor of forestry economics and policy. And Danijela Puric-Mladenovic, who has been teaching forestry at the University of Toronto since 2006 as an adjunct professor and limited-term assistant professor, will […]
The Leaflet: FGSA’s monthly newsletter (May 2021)
The May 2021 issue of FGSA’s The Leaflet is now out! May 2021 – Leaflet Issue 3
Forestry Alumni appointed to Forests Ontario’s Board of Directors
The Daniels Faculty congratulates Forestry alumni, Malcolm Cockwell and Christine Leduc, on their recent appointments to Forests Ontario’s Board of Directors. Malcolm Cockwell is the Managing Director of Haliburton Forest, a multi-use private land stewardship company responsible for more than 100,000 acres in central Ontario. Malcolm oversees diverse land operations, including an integrated Forest […]
