UBC Forestry
Congratulations to the Recipients of the ABCFP Sustainable Forest Management Award and MGEM Program Awards
UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship congratulates the winners of the ABCFP Sustainable Forest Management Award, the MGEM Best in Class Award, and the MGEM GTA Award. The recipients demonstrated exceptional leadership and teamwork skills and contributions to teaching that earned them high respect from students and course supervisors.
Malcolm Knapp Research Forest Wild & Immersive Program Offering Bursary Fund To Families With Financial Barriers
The Wild & Immersive program that comes alive at UBC’s Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest (MKRF) is once again flooded with children and youth engaging in outdoor education experiences, and one Maple Ridge family would like to see even more young people participate.
UBC Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Hosting Undergraduate Indonesian Students This Fall
UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship will host 10 undergraduate students from Indonesia this fall, thanks to the Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA) program. The program gives top Indonesian students the opportunity to take university classes not typically offered in their own country, and further develop leadership skills in a multicultural setting.
Enhancing Biomass Utilization for Economic, Environmental, and Social Benefits in British Columbia – What Can Be Done?
AUTHORS: J. Aeyelts, J. Bulkan, D. Roeser (Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship), X. Bi, R. Clift and H. Wang (Faculty of Applied Science Chemical & Biological Engineering) University of British Columbia
In British Columbia (BC) roughly 64 million m³ of logs are harvested annually. Market conditions and government taxes dictate which logs are harvested by forestry companies.
Flipping the Script on Residual Fibre: Enhancing Utilization for a Sustainable Forest Industry
AUTHORS: J. Aeyelts, J. Bulkan, D. Roeser (Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship), X. Bi, R. Clift and H. Wang (Faculty of Applied Science Chemical & Biological Engineering) University of British Columbia
The practice of burning harvest residuals is deeply embedded in British Columbia’s (BC) forestry sector. While this was a logical practice when first mandated in 1938, global and local circumstances have evolved and so must forestry practices.
New Research Identifies Priority Actions For Lower Fraser River Salmon Recovery
The Fraser is the largest salmon-bearing river in British Columbia, supporting 54 unique populations, known as Conservation Units (CUs), of wild Pacific salmon, 19 of which breed in the lower Fraser River. A new open-access study by the Martin Conservation Decisions Lab found that all 19 of these CUs are on a declining trajectory over the next 25 years.
The JEDI Story Behind Forest(Reads)
Forest(Reads) introduces UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship faculty, staff, students and interested individuals to JEDI topics through a literary lens. The inaugural Forest(Reads), coordinated by grad student Arial Eatherton, involved events surrounding Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Candidates Encouraged to Apply for Ubc Future Forests Fellowship
UBC’s Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship’s Future Forests Fellowship (FFF), one of the largest single awards in the world given to an incoming doctoral student in forestry, is once again available in 2022. Made possible by a private Canadian foundation, the award, amounting to $280,000 over four years, was created to underscore just how much forestry research impacts global current and emerging ecological issues.
Turning Skyscrapers into Trees
After years of research, a wood scientist, mechanical engineer, and chemical engineer have invented a new way to protect cities from climate change: turning buildings into giant trees. Or at least, their invention can make some buildings do some of the things that trees can.
Growing the BC Big Tree Registry
“We’ve built the registry to be inclusive so that anybody who wants to participate and nominate a tree can do so, but we also carefully verify each measurement,” says Ira Sutherland, who chairs the BC Big Tree Registry Committee and is pursuing a Ph.D. in historical ecology at UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship under Assoc. Prof. Jeanine Rhemtulla.