Your Ontario Woodlot Association at Work by Ben Gwilliam, MFC Student
Article written for The Ontario Woodlander, Issue 104 (September 2021), a publication of the Ontario Woodlot Association where Ben Gwilliam interned for his Master of Forest Conservation program. People working together is at the heart of sustainable forest management, as many specialties contribute to our knowledge and understanding of best practices. Organizations that foster […]
The Leaflet: FGSA’s monthly newsletter (October 2021)
Click here for the October 2021 edition of the Leaflet: October 2021 – Leaflet Issue 7
Professor Mohini Sain elected to the Royal Society of Canada
Professor Mohini Sain’s (MIE) research focuses on the sustainable manufacturing of low-carbon and carbon-neutral materials. (Photo: University of Toronto) Professor Mohini Sain (MIE) has been elected a 2021 fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). The RSC’s mission is to recognize excellence, to advise governments and organizations, and to promote a culture of knowledge and […]
Canadian Wood Council and the Daniels Faculty partner to publish “Places of Production: Forest and Factory”
“Places of Production: Forest and Factory” is a new publication from the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, in collaboration with the Canadian Wood Council and the woodSMART Program. The title comes from the research studio of the same name, led by Professor Robert Wright and Professor Brigitte Shim, that explored […]
Welcome from Dean Juan Du
Welcome to the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto! I wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting […]
How the Ontario Woodlot Association is Using LiDAR to Help Woodlot Owners Make Decisions by Ben Gwilliam, MFC Student
Article written for The Ontario Woodlander, Issue 103 (June 2021), a publication of the Ontario Woodlot Association where Ben Gwilliam is currently working his MFC program summer internship. Woodlots provide us with fuel, timber, wildlife habitat, and ecosystem services that will help us to mitigate climate change, but how can landowners measure these to […]
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 […]
