Forestry News

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 May 2021 issue of FGSA’s The Leaflet is now out!   May 2021 – Leaflet Issue 3    

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 […]

    Mass timber, a category of engineered wood-based structural building materials suitable for large-scale infrastructure projects, promises to change the way buildings are designed. But, to many practitioners in the design and construction industries, mass timber is still a little mysterious. Architects and builders may have seen headlines about tall wooden buildings shooting up in […]

    Enjoy the April 2021 issue of the Leaflet, produced by the Forestry Graduate Students’ Association: The Leaflet – Issue 2 – April 2021

  The Daniels Faculty’s Mass Timber Institute is devoted to the study and promotion of next-generation wood products that promise to change the way we build our cities. Later this month, the institute will be co-hosting a major mass timber conference. TimberCon, which the MTI is hosting in partnership with The Architect’s Newspaper, will take place on March 18 […]

  If you’re feeling stressed, anxious or discouraged, finding the energy to get outdoors may be hard – but it could be one of the best things you could do to lift your mood, particularly during COVID-19. Ontario health-care providers are now offering “Parks Prescriptions” through a new program called PaRx that recommends spending time in nature […]

Enjoy the March 2021 issue of the Leaflet, produced by the Forestry Graduate Student Association:   Issue 1 – The Leaflet – March 2021