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John Ecker, Chair, Board of Directors, Ontario Heritage Trust, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Amory Ngan, City of Mississauga, forestry manager, and the Honourable Edith Dumont, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario at the April 17 Ontario Heritage Trust awards ceremony (photo by Dahlia Katz courtesy of the Ontario Heritage Trust). City of Mississauga, forestry manager, Amory Ngan, […]

Many of Toronto’s cherry blossom (sakura) trees were gifted to the city by Japanese and Japanese-Canadian individuals and organizations as a gesture of gratitude for Toronto’s support in welcoming Japanese Canadians who were displaced during and after World War II. The University of Toronto received many of its sakura trees from the Consulate General of […]

Click HERE for the March 2026 edition of the Mass Timber Institute newsletter.

Ontario’s regulator of professional foresters (RPF), the Ontario Professional Foresters Association, features an article by master of forest conservation graduate Stevie Rae Luzzi (MFC 2024) in the latest issue of The Professional Forester. Sharing our roots: journeys to becoming a professional forester introduces some of Ontario’s new registered and associate professional foresters by sharing the […]

Click HERE for the February 2026 edition of the Mass Timber Institute newsletter featuring Yasser Elfahli, Research Assistant and Visiting PhD.

A select number of 2025 Master of Forest Conservation Capstone presentations are now able for viewing on YouTube: YouTube PlayList.  Congratulations MFCs on your great work!   A list of the individual presentations available: Daniel Lowe Characterising Forest Structure and its Impact on Airtanker Drop Penetration Using Airborne LiDAR    YouTube Link Sydney Veres   […]

Rasoul Yousefpour, an associate professor in John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, is among nine researchers from the University of Toronto have received Connaught Community Partnership Research Program awards for 2025-26. Given by the Connaught Fund, the awards support research carried out in collaboration with non-academic community partners and driven by their […]

Click HERE for the November 2025 edition of the Mass Timber Institute newsletter. This issue features an interview with Prof. Rasoul Yousefpour regarding an economic impact assessment report on Ontario’s forest sector produced under his leadership with The Forest Economy and Decision Support Systems Lab at the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Ministry […]