Daniels Faculty’s Forestry at U of T

05/06/2020

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Victor “Vic” Smith Professor Emeritus Victor “Vic” Smith recently passed away on April 15th. Both a student and faculty member of the Faculty of Forestry, Dr. Smith first earned his BScF in 1949. After venturing up north to work in Espanola, Ontario as a distr...

05/06/2020

Interim Dean Announcement A familiar face will be taking on the role of Interim Dean for the Daniels Faculty starting July 1, 2020. Former Faculty of Forestry Dean, Robert Wright, will replace Dean Richard Sommer who is stepping down at the end of June after ten years. His term will be for one year....

03/23/2020

Updated: March 17, 2020, 2:30pm EST The entire University community is focused on maintaining a healthy environment on our campuses and preserving your educational experience to the extent possible. We will update this page regularly with important updates for U of T’s graduate community. Can’t ...

03/10/2020

Master of Forest Conservation students head north for their annual Winter Field Tour When the weather in the city is at its most frigid, master’s students in the Daniels Faculty’s forestry program head north, to parts of Ontario where the air is even colder. The Winter Field Tour is an annual tr...

03/10/2020

OUFC’s “Making Cities Resilient” Conference Testimonial by MFC Students This past November the Ontario Urban Forest Council’s 2019 Annual Conference was jointly hosted by Tree Canada and the Canadian Urban Forest Networks at the Heintzman House in Thornhill, Ontario, bringing together an all...

03/10/2020

February 2020 Forestry Publications The Forestry website is introducing a monthly feature where we list new publications by our faculty members and researchers. Below are Forestry’s peer-reviewed papers published in January and February 2020.   Faculty members Papers Reviewed and Published Profes...

03/10/2020

03/10/2020

MFC Student, Natalie Heyblom, presented with the White Pine Award at Forests Ontario’s Annual Conference Forests Ontario’s 6th Annual Conference took place in Alliston on February 14th, bringing together close to 400 landowners, forestry professionals, Indigenous leaders, educators and students....

03/10/2020

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus James Bendell Forestry has unfortunately learned that one of our Professor Emeriti, James Bendell, has recently passed away. Professor Bendell was a Professor of Wildlife Biology at the Faculty of Forestry from 1972 to 1991. His research concentrated on population eco...

03/10/2020

2019 Master of Forest Conservation Capstone Presentations Each December our Master of Forest Conservation students complete their program with their Capstone Presentations which involves analysing information and preparing formal reports based on their summer internships and in consultation with ind...

12/17/2019

Meet Eugene Franklin Johnston- Class of 1949 Photo of Eugene Johnston, age 94-years young, taken at the Johnson Brothers Tree Farm I have a story I would like to share with you about a young professional forester, Eugene Franklin Johnston, known by many as “Pud,” who graduated from the Faculty o...

11/21/2019

Mass timber pitch wins hypothetical cheque at the Ontario Economic Summit The Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s annual Ontario Economic Summit was held on November 14th at the Beanfield Centre where the University of Toronto presented the Next Big Idea Pitch Session to predict what’s next on the inn...