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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 […]

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 […]

  Click here for the June 2021 edition of the Leaflet: June 2021 – Leaflet Issue 4      

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