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Minnesota Forest Resources Council & the Department of Forest Resources launch Forest Carbon Dashboard.

The IonE has awarded a group including Professor Mae Davenport with a grant to study the agricultural impacts on Manoomin (Ojibwe) / Psiη (Dakota) / wild rice.

Today, members of our University community, along with people throughout the nation and the world, will pause for moments of silence and reflection in honor of George Floyd. On the second anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, we recognize that though the world has changed, our efforts to advance social and racial justice must continue unabated.

"The objective of the prescribed burn on was to reintroduce fire as an ecological and cultural process to promote and maintain the Cloquet Forestry Center's historically fire-dependent forest."

Last fall, the department raised over $4,500 to provide new field equipment to our students to use today in their classes and going forward through their careers.

From the Spring 2022 edition of the Forest Scene newsletter: Dr. Chris Edgar discusses his research contributions to the national forest inventory.

From the Spring 2022 edition of the Forest Scene newsletter: Dr. Kristen C. Nelson discusses her research and how she approaches forming a research question.

Catherine Glenn-Stone, a junior majoring in Forest and Natural Resource Management (B.S.) talks about her path to studying forestry here at the University of Minnesota.

Alumni Greg and Jan Bernu tell their forestry story from different perspectives of the same industry: one as a county land commissioner and the other as an independent forestry and land management consultant.

From the Spring 2022 edition of the Forest Scene newsletter: A letter from Dr. Mike Kilgore, Professor and Head of the Department of Forest Resources, to our community.