The Globe and Mail: The Norway maple is a bully, and shouldn’t be confused with the sugar maple tree
Canadian leaf / Canadian maple tree / a red maple leaf ILLUSTRATION BY RONTECH2000 The following opinion piece for The Globe and Mail by MFC graduate Peter Kuitenbrouwer was published on June 26, 2020. The Norway maple is a hardy tree that thrives much better than our domestic sugar maple in harsh urban conditions. City […]
2020 Forestry Publications
Forestry’s 2020 peer-reviewed publications: Faculty members Papers Reviewed and Published Professor Patrick James Carbayo HR, Pino J, Bonal R, James PMA, Hampe A, Espelta JM. (in press). Disentangling the effects of host genetic identity, ontogeny and spatial distribution in insect herbivory in expanding oak forests. Annals of Forest Science Larroque J, Johns R, […]
Reflections on searching for and finding Kirtland’s Warbler: An Article by Paul Aird, Professor Emertus
Reflections on searching for and finding Kirtland’s Warbler in Ontario and Québec, 1976-2016 An article by the Faculty of Forestry’s Paul Aird, Professor Emertus, which appeared in the August 2018 edition of Ontario Birds, the journal of the Ontario Field Ornithologists.
MFC Student Laura Nguyen Wins Tree Canada’s Urban Forestry Student Award
The Faculty of Forestry congratulates MFC student Laura Nguyen on representing us well by winning the 2018 Tree Canada Urban Forestry Student Award. Tree Canada awards students “who have a strong interest in and dedication for urban forestry as demonstrated by their academic, volunteerism and extra-curricular activities.” Laura was presented with the award at the […]
Recent history and foresters: A Women in Wood Article by Dr. Anne Koven
Anne Koven graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Forestry where she is an instructor and adjunct professor. She served as Vice Chair of the Ontario Environmental Assessment Board where she conducted the Class Environmental Assessment Hearing for Timber Management on Crown Lands in Ontario. She has also been actively involved in […]
A Toronto Star article: Boreal caribou are rapidly dwindling in Canada. It’s critical that we protect their habitat
A Toronto Star article by the Faculty of Forestry’s Professor Jay Malcolm and Adjunct Professor Faisal Moola, and Julee Boan, Boreal Program Manager at Ontario Nature. Scientists have been tracking the decline of boreal caribou in Canada for decades. Researchers have spent years studying the impacts of forestry and other industrial development on this elusive […]
Meet the man on a mission to map Toronto’s oldest trees
Forestry expert Eric Davies says Toronto’s oldest trees have valuable special abilities – they’ve evolved to thrive here for hundreds of years. How old is your most elderly neighbour? 80? 95? Try 250. Maybe even older – assuming your neighbour is a tree. Eric Davies, a U of T PhD candidate in forestry, is on […]
