List of historic schools of forestry

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Heinrich von Cotta (1763-1844), "pioneer of scientific forestry"

This is a list of historic schools of forestry, by founding date. Also included is information about each school's location, founder(s), present status, and (where applicable) closing date. Many remain active.

1700s[]

1800-1849[]

Saint Petersburg Forestry Academy
  • 1800 - First formal training of foresters in Russia; 'forstmeister' course established at the Naval Cadet Corps Academy, Saint Petersburg[4]
  • 1803 - (or 'Practical Forestry School'), in Tsarskoye Selo (near Saint Petersburg), Russia; in 1811 moved to the imperial capital to become the , later the S. M. Kirov Forestry Academy; today the .[4][5][6]
  • 1807 - , Aschaffenburg, Bavaria; merged with the University of Munich in 1874[7]
Former Academy of Mining and Forestry, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
Eberswalde Forestry Academy

1850-1899[]

Sir William Schlich, Carl Schenck, and others, Saxony 1892

1900-1949[]

Gifford Pinchot and students at the Yale summer forestry camp, Milford, Pennsylvania, 1910
Students from the Biltmore Forest School (USA), visiting Darmstadt, Germany, 1912
  • 1912 - Madras Forest Academy, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, South India
  • 1913 - School of Forestry, University of Montana. Established by the 12th Legislature of Montana.[18]
  • 1919 - Moscow Forest Engineering Institute, Russia's "first higher education institution for training forest engineers"; now Moscow State Forest University[4]
  • 1920 - Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Studies in the field of forestry began in 1920 as the Department of Forestry at the Agricultural Faculty in Belgrade. The Faculty of Forestry became separate in 1949, the first independent forestry faculty in the former Yugoslavia.[19][20]
  • 1926 - Australian Forestry School, Canberra, Australia. Foundation Principal Charles Lane Poole. Became part of the Australian National University in 1965.
  • 1932 - Saasveld College for Foresters, George, South Africa; now part of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU)[21]
  • 1948, June 16 - , Shanxi Province, China (established by the Chinese Communist Party)

1950-present[]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Shirley, Hardy L. "Professional Education in Forestry," Unasylva, No. 75. Accessed: May 8, 2012.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "About Eberswalde and IUFRO," forestinsects.org, August, 2010. Accessed: April 20, 2013.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Indian Council of Agricultural Research. 2002. "Curriculum and Syllabi for Master's Degree Programs in Forestry." New Delhi, India. Accessed: May 7, 2012.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Teplyakov, Victor K. 1994. "Forestry education in Russia," Forestry Chronicle 70(6): 700-704.
  5. ^ Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia Accessed: May 6, 2012.
  6. ^ "St. Petersburg State Forest Technical University." Archived 2013-04-20 at the Wayback Machine Accessed: April 18, 2013.
  7. ^ Barnard, Henry. 1870. "Technical instruction. Special report of the Commissioner of Education." United States House of Representatives, January 19. Accessed: May 7, 2012.
  8. ^ Slovakia in the UNESCO treasury Accessed: May 6, 2012.
  9. ^ Hungarian Wikipedia, "Wilckens Henrik Dávid" Accessed May 6, 2012
  10. ^ "The History of the University," University of West Hungary. Accessed: February 14, 2013.
  11. ^ Minutes of the "Meeting of the Association of German Forest Experiment Stations," Eberswalde, 1892. Accessed: April 20, 2013.
  12. ^ Husinec, Renata, and Dejan Marenčić. n.d. "Križevci College of Agriculture." Archived 2009-12-29 at the Wayback Machine Accessed: April 13, 2013.
  13. ^ College of Agriculture at Križevci. Accessed: April 13, 2013.
  14. ^ Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, "Introduction" Accessed: May 6, 2012.
  15. ^ https://www.warnell.uga.edu/index.php/about/history
  16. ^ "Our Legacy," School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington. Accessed 5 July 2019.
  17. ^ 100 Years, Chapters 1-3. University of the Philippines Los Banos. Accessed: April 21, 2013.
  18. ^ http://www.cfc.umt.edu/Files/Montanas%20School%20of%20Forestry.pdf
  19. ^ Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade. Accessed: January 22, 2014.
  20. ^ "Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade," Archived 2013-12-11 at the Wayback Machine EU HETIP: Improving Higher Education Infrastructure in Serbia. Accessed: January 22, 2014.
  21. ^ "History," Archived 2013-06-03 at the Wayback Machine Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Accessed: March 1, 2013.
  22. ^ "UBC Forestry History". University of British Columbia. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  23. ^ "News of the world". Unasylva. FAO. 23 (3). 1969. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
  24. ^ "Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences". University of Chittagong. Retrieved 24 May 2018.

Further reading[]

  • Fernow, Bernard E. 1913. A brief history of forestry in Europe, the United States and other countries, 3d. ed. Toronto: Toronto University Press; and Washington, DC: American Forestry Association.
  • Kuhlberg, Mark. 2009. One Hundred Rings and Counting: Forestry Education and Forestry in Toronto and Canada, 1907-2007. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Shirley, Hardy L. 1958. "Forestry education and research in Russia," Journal of Forestry 56, pp. 892–899.
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