Nature’s Past Canadian Environmental History Podcast Episode 15 Available

Episode 15 Forestry Education in Canada: May 26, 2010
[audio: http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/natures-past15.mp3][43:04]

In 1907, the University of Toronto opened Canada’s first forestry school to undergraduate students. This was the beginning of formal forestry education in Canada and great step forward for the profession. However, the history of the Faculty of Forestry reveals a troubled past filled with struggles to balance the interests of the provincial government, private industry, and the university administration. Mark Kuhlberg joins us for an extended interview about his new book One Hundred Rings and Counting: Forestry Education and Forestry in Toronto and Canada, 1907-2007 in which he chronicles the first century of this foundational institution and fills a significant gap in the literature on the history of the development of professional forestry.

Also, Lauren Wheeler, from the New Scholars in Canadian History and Environment Group discusses an upcoming virtual environmental history workshop for graduate students called Place and Placelessness.

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Works Cited

Sean Kheraj, Canadian History & Environment
Mark Kuhlberg, One Hundred Rings and Counting: Forestry Education and Forestry in Toronto and Canada, 1907-2007. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
A.R.M. Lower, The North American Assault on the Canadian Forest: A History of the Lumber Trade Between Canada and the United States. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1938.
H.V. Nelles, The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines, and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1941. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974.
Graeme Wynn, Timber Colony: A Historical Geography of Early Nineteenth Century New Brunswick. Toronto: 1981.
Peter R. Gillis and Thomas R. Roach, Lost Initiatives: Canada’s Forest Industries, Forest Policies, and Forest Conservation. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Adam Crymble, “The End of People Moving?: Follow the Grad Students” on Thoughts on Public and Digital History, 25 May 2010.
Place and Placelessness: A Virtual Environmental History Workshop for Graduate Students