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Green Communities Canada @greencommunities.bsky.social · 1d

Green Communities Canada and @forestry.ubc.ca are excited to release a new report.

The first report of its kind, "Seeds of Change: Cultivating Mini Forests Across Canada," investigates the rapid growth of the mini forest movement in Canada.

🔗 Get the report here:

Seeds of Change: Celebrating the Growth of Mini Forests Across Canada - Green Communities Canada

Green Communities Canada (GCC) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) are excited to release a new report. Seeds of Change: Cultivating Mini Forests Across Canada investigates the rapid growth…

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Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr-spoon.bsky.social · 7d

I hope everyone is enjoying #Silvilaser2025!

@silvilaser2025.bsky.social
@metafor-ulaval.bsky.social @irssubc.bsky.social @alexisachim.bsky.social
@ulaval.ca @forestry.ubc.ca

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Green Communities Canada @greencommunities.bsky.social · 9d

Green Communities Canada and @forestry.ubc.ca are excited to release a new report.

The first report of its kind, "Seeds of Change: Cultivating Mini Forests Across Canada," investigates the rapid growth of the mini forest movement in Canada.

🔗 Get the report here:

Seeds of Change: Celebrating the Growth of Mini Forests Across Canada - Green Communities Canada

Green Communities Canada (GCC) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) are excited to release a new report. Seeds of Change: Cultivating Mini Forests Across Canada investigates the rapid growth…

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Juliet Lu (she/her/hers) @profjulietlu.bsky.social · 8d

My wonderful @forestry.ubc.ca PhD student Joachim Stassart has an article out in Political Geography on corruption and land grabs in Brazil!
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
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Hijacking legality: Corruption and property creation in Brazil's frontiers

Corruption undermines natural resource governance and conservation efforts, fueling deforestation and violence against land and environmental defender…

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · 28d

Join our experts as we look for areas of consensus on the future of BC’s forests at the 2025 Backman Dialogue, Forestry in Flux: Reimagining BC's Forests.🌲

🗓️ October 8
⏰ Doors 6 pm, Event 7 pm, Reception 8:30 pm
📍 Hollywood Theatre, 3123 W. Broadway, Vancouver
🔗 forestry.ubc.ca/events/fores...

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · 29d

Join us in congratulating #UBCForestry Professor and Research Chair in Global Change Ecology of Northern Ecosystems, Dr. Isla Myers-Smith, on being named a Member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.🍁

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Sep 4

#UBCForestry's Dr. @loridanielsubc.bsky.social is leading research in Jasper to determine how well fire mitigation strategies worked. Previous fire suppression policies in Canada increased the risk of bigger, uncontrollable fires in the future.🔥

🔗 The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

In a Mammoth Wildfire’s Remains, Clues to Tame Future Blazes

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Sep 3

Join #UBCForestry and @landfood.ubc.ca on September 30 at 1956 Main Mall as we unite for an Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day.

Learn more: bit.ly/osd-2025
#UBC #OrangeShirtDay

2025 Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day |

Join Land and Food Systems and Forestry for an Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day on Sept 30.

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Sep 2

"We are too reliant on one partner and one product."

The US has more than doubled the duties on softwood lumber from Canada. #UBCForestry's Dr. Harry Nelson explains that this will likely curtail production, impact Canadian facilities and shut down mills.

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Aug 28

We are proud to announce that #UBCForestry Associate Professor Dr. Melissa McHale is one of two recipients of the 2025 Wall Fellowships, UBC’s highest-value internal research awards.👏

Learn more about Dr. McHale's work and the Wall Fellowships: forestry.ubc.ca/news/2025-wa...

Melissa McHale Receives 2025 Wall Fellowships Award | UBC Forestry

UBC Forestry congratulates Dr. Melissa McHale on receiving the 2025 Wall Fellowships, UBC’s highest-value internal research awards.

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Aug 27

#UBCForestry Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Academy, based at the Alex Fraser Research Forest, has wrapped up its summer 2025 field training! 🪵

🔗 Read more about the technical skills and strategic knowledge participants gained: forestry.ubc.ca/.../turning-...

Turning Slash into Solutions: UBC Forestry’s CHP Academy Builds Bioenergy Skills Across Canada | UBC Forestry

The Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Academy, based at the Alex Fraser Research Forest, has successfully wrapped up its June 2025 training.

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Hamish van der Ven @profhvdv.bsky.social · Aug 20

❗Now recruiting MSc and PhD students for September 2026❗

Come work @forestry.ubc.ca on indirect impacts of the internet on the environment. These are funded, thesis-based positions.

Details on the positions and how to apply here: bst.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Aug 18

In this issue, we delve into the social sciences of forestry, highlighting how the academic work, career paths and actions taken by our #UBCForestry community are shaping the future for the sake of humans and the planet.🌎👤

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Aug 18

It's here! 🗞️🚨

We're thrilled to announce that #Branchlines Vol. 36, "Human Dimensions of Forestry" is available now! 🎉

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Ramon Melser @ramonmelser.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excited to share that I successfully defended my PhD dissertation in Remote Sensing (Forestry) at @forestry.ubc.ca. Thank you to all of my fantastic labmates in the @irssubc.bsky.social, as well as my supervisor, Nicholas Coops, and my research committee for all their support.

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Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr-spoon.bsky.social · Aug 14

Having a great time at the #IRSSlab retreat 2025 @ Cowichan Lake!🫶

Thanks to all who demo’d the Outdoors Tips & Tricks!🔨
@la-stack.bsky.social with the #Trimble, @jamesmcglade.bsky.social with the the #GeoSlam & Liam with PostEx👏

@irssubc.bsky.social @forestry.ubc.ca @metafor-ulaval.bsky.social

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Aug 12

Seeking a PhD in landscape ecology & applied conservation?

Funded PhD project at @forestry.ubc.ca w/ Dr. Matthew Mitchell:

* Stipend $32k/yr + benefits x 4 yrs
* Start Jan or May 2026
* Collaborate w NCC & Metro Vancouver
* Open until filled

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Opportunities

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Positions There are currently two open graduate student position in the lab, please see details below! PhD Position : We are currently seeking a...

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UBC IDEA Lab @idea.nursing.ubc.ca · Aug 11

Nature via VR or projector can be transformative for hospital patients & LTC residents 🌳🏥

@nurselillian.bsky.social and PhD students Joey and Lily shared this work at @forestry.ubc.ca’s 2nd International Conference on Forest Therapy #ICFT2025

PhD students Joey Wong and Lily Haopu Ren present behind a lectern with a large slide of their VR dementia care poster projected behind them at the 2nd International Conference on Forest Therapy.

Dr. Lillian Hung speaks during a research panel at the 2nd International Conference on Forest Therapy, seated alongside other panelists in a classroom setting.

Joey Wong speaks with an attendee in front of her poster titled “Co-Creating Virtual Reality with Older Adults with Dementia.”

Lab manager Lily Haopu Ren, patient partner Lily Wong, and PhD student Joey Wong smile together holding a large Instagram-style photo frame at the 2nd International Conference on Forest Therapy.

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Aug 6

"Smoke knows no political boundaries — and neither does fire," says #UBCForestry Professor and Forest Ecologist Dr. Lori Daniels 🔥

The smoke from large wildfires in Canada is drifting southwards to American cities, impacting the air quality in the US.

🔗 Read: www.aol.com/canadian-wil...

Canadian wildfires are choking American cities. Here's what to know

500+ out-of-control fires in Canada are sending smoke across the border, creating hazardous air quality from Chicago to New York.

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Aug 1

Natural Resources Canada released its annual report called the State of Canada’s Forests.🌳

#UBCForestry Lecturer and MIF Coordinator Peter Wood and Professor Emeritus Gary Bull share their thoughts with @theglobeandmail.com

🔗 Read: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Federal forest report obscures logging’s impact on wildlife and climate, conservation groups say

Government should focus on the quality of Canada’s forests, not just the quantity, advocates say

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Jul 31

Congratulations, Cissy Zhang, a MSc student in the Department of Forest Resources Management, on being awarded UBC’s Spring 2025 Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) Fund! 🏆

🔗 forestry.ubc.ca/awards/recog...

Recognizing Community-Driven Collaboration: PRE Fund Awards

UBC Forestry wishes to congratulate Cissy Zhang on being awarded UBC's Spring 2025 Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) Fund!

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IRSS at UBC @irssubc.bsky.social · Jul 31

NEW PAPER 📣 Challenges in teaching silviculture in Canada: the path forward

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✍️: Wotherspoon (@dr-spoon.bsky.social), Moreau, Morin-Bernard, Achim (@alexisachim.bsky.social), Coops, Villemaire-Côté, Irwin & Hagerman

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Jul 30

Vancouver recently increased its urban forest strategy to aim for 30% tree coverage by 2050.🌳

#UBCForestry Master of Urban Forestry Leadership Program Director, Sara Barron, explains that "trees take time to grow, but they can still benefit cities in the long term,"🌱

globalnews.ca/news/1129225...

From tree cover to green roofs, how are cities fighting extreme heat? - National | Globalnews.ca

Studies have shown cities can see higher temperatures during heat waves compared with rural areas, but cities are taking steps to try to reduce that impact.

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Jul 28

Clear-cutting can make severe floods 18 times more frequent!

#UBCForestry Professor Younes Alila and PhD student Henry Pham were a part of a research team analyzing two adjacent watersheds on how clearcutting exacerbates flooding.💧

🔗 Read: news.ubc.ca/2025/07/clea...

Clear-cutting linked to 18-fold rise in extreme floods, UBC study finds - UBC News

New research finds long-term impacts on flood size and frequency decades after trees are removed

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Jul 24

The provincial government estimates that almost a third of forests in BC's northeast could burn by the end of the year.🔥

#UBCForestry Professor @loridanielsubc.bsky.social says, "the area has been in a multi-year drought lasting six or seven years now."

🔗 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/21/o...

The 'why' of wildfires

There are 72 countries in the world whose landmass is smaller than the amount of hectares of forest that have burned across Canada this year — and wildfire season isn't over yet.

www.nationalobserver.com

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