Graduation Tracy Wendt has a passion for restoring landscapes. She will continue her work this summer with Trout Unlimited and as a grad student in the fall. Read more.
05-22-2013The Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research found more tourists visiting Montana in 2012 than any previous year - and bringing nearly $2.6 billion into the state economy. Read more about their research results.
05-22-2013UM students are in India for the next several weeks on a study abroad course in the Indian Himalayas. They're joined by a renowned mountaineer and are donating mountaineering gear to local guides. Read more.
05-09-2013Congratulations to all 2013 CFC graduates! View our commencement program here (pdf).
05-20-2013The University of Montana's Climate Change Studies Program offers one of the nation's first undergraduate degree programs devoted to the challenges and opportunities presented by global climate change. View the video
04-29-2013A recent episode of "The Nature of Things" features Professor Diana Six talking about mountain pine beetles and the fungi that live with them.
Video of CFC students and faculty restoring longleaf pine forests with prescribed burning in Georgia.
PhD student Ryan Bracewell was recently awarded a scholarship for his beetle research by the Western Forest Insect Work Conference. Read more.
03-25-2013The Plum Creek Distinguished Lecture Series hosted a seminar on the impacts of a Supreme Court Case to logging roads and the Clean Water Act. Panelists, including representatives from both petitioners and plaintiffs sides of the case, Montana DEQ, US Forest Service, Plum Creek Timber Company, and The University of Montana School of Law, provided an overview of the case and its potential impacts. Read more.
03-01-2013Professor Dan Pletscher has been honored with an award from the Montana Chapter of the Wildlife Society. Dan was given the Distinguished Service Award at the MT-TWS’s annual meeting in Whitefish last week. Read more.
03-03-2013The Wildlife Biology Program was selected as a Program of National Distinction by UM's Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Read more.
02-13-2013The Mansfield Library just posted an online exhibit on the forestry school's 100-year history. View photos, scans of documents, and a history of the school, compiled from collections in the library's archives.
02-11-2013CFC's Professor of Natural Resource Policy Martin Nie has published several studies on the US Forest Service's 2012 planning rule. Read a summary of that work here (pdf).
02-01-2013UM scientists, including CFC Professor Steve Running, just published the cover story in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society on satellite-based drought monitoring. Read more.
01-31-2013CFC's Professor of Forest Entomology and Pathology Diana Six writes The Bark Beetle Blog, covering everything from genomics to management of these insects.
01-28-2013CFC grad students Ted Adams and Jena Ferrarese were awarded a scholarship last spring from Systems for Environmental Management to support their research on wildland fire and technology. The UM Foundation recently published a profile on Adams (see link on the college's Facebook page).
Read more. 01-17-2013CFC student Jimmie McKay, who recently completed his master's degree, recently talked to the Missoulian about going back to school after a career at Smurfit-Stone. Read more here
01-17-2013Publishers have just released the second edition of wildlife professor Scott Mill's textbook Conservation of Wildlife Populations.
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Students in UM's climate change studies program are in a wintersession course in Vietnam. They were welcomed at Nong Lam University for a discussion with students working on environmental issues.
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While Anton Gabrielson was an undergraduate student at the CFC he completed a senior research thesis with Professor Andrew Larson. Anton's research paper on the burning characteristics of sugar pine cones was recently published in the journal Fire Ecology. He continues his interesting work now in far eastern Russia, studying red deer. Read more.
12-20-2012Students in this fall's Introduction to Parks, Recreation & Tourism course developed a blog about Missoula's parks. Graduate student Christina Mills organized the class of undergrads to highlight 31 of Missoula's city parks.
12-14-2012This year's FORS435 Advanced Timber Harvesting conducted a Best Management Practices field review of a timber sale on the North Fork of Elk Creek in Lubrecht. Read more.
12-05-2012A study in a tropical forest in Costa Rica that examined the role tree leaf litter plays in regulating the organic carbon stored in soil was recently selected by the Faculty of 1000 for special recognition. CFC alumnus Jonathan Leff conducted the study with researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of New Hampshire. Based on that research, they co-authored a paper titled “Experimental litterfall manipulation drives large and rapid changes in soil carbon cycling in a wet tropical forest,” which was published the journal Global Change Biology in September.
Read more. 11-28-2012Online maps of Lubrecht's nordic ski trails, developed by Mike Sweet, were awarded second place in the ArcGIS Online Map Contest recently sponsored by a Montana GIS organization. Read more.
11-15-2012The US Forest Service recently recognized former grad student Bob Dvorak and faculty member Bill Borrie with the Excellence in Wilderness Stewardship Research Award for research they conducted on visitor use in the Boundary Waters Canoe Areas Wilderness. Read more.
11-07-2012UM helped coordinate a discovery day for high school students in the Seeley Lake area. Students spent several hours in the woods learning how to monitor forest overstory and how to monitor wildlife in a fuel treatment site. Read more.
11-01-2012New research by professor Solomon Dobrowski and several co-authors assesses the climate velocity (both climate displacement rate and direction) for minimum temperature, actual evapotranspiration, and climatic water deficit over the contiguous US during the 20th century (1916–2005). Read more.
10-29-2012CFC forestry students led an effort to gather more than 400 trees to build the set for the 96th Foresters' Ball, set for next March 22-23. The Kaimin newspaper reports on their efforts in this article and video.
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Joel Meier and Steve McCool, both professors emeriti of the College of Forestry and Conservation spoke to UM alums, current students, and faculty at a reception during the MT/ID Recreation and Parks Conference.
10-09-2012Graduate student Emily Clark drills a groundwater well in Lubrecht Experimental Forest as part of her semester-long project to produce a hydrologic characterization of the forest. Read more.
10-02-2012In Sept., administrators from the University of Namibia visited the College of Forestry and Conservation to discuss our ongoing partnership and how we could expand our joint work in community-based conservation to include other strengths of The University of Montana. Read more.
10-02-2012Since 2011, the CFC has had a research agreement with the Korea Forest Research Institute to cooperate in teaching and research. In September, the assistant general director of KFRI, a research scientist from KFRI, and two faculty members from Kangwon National University visited the CFC. Read more.
09-24-2012Two of this year's UM Distinguished Alumni Award winners are graduates of the college's wildlife biology program. Doug Chadwick and Thomas Riggert were honored for their successful careers during this past weekend's homecoming festivities. Read more.
09-24-2012Tshewang Wangchuk, a doctoral candidate in our Fish and Wildlife program, was recently featured as Explorer of the Week by National Geographic. Read more.
09-17-2012CFC faculty member Kelsey Jencso and information specialist Mike Sweet met last week with Montana's lieutenant governor, who chairs the Montana Governor's Drought Advisory Committee.
Read more. 09-10-2012PhD student Mark Douglas was selected this summer to serve as a Wilderness Fellow in Glacier National Park. Read more.
09-10-2012This summer Woodam Chung, associate professor of forest operations, instructed a course in precision forestry for an international network of forest scientists. Read more.
08-29-2012A recent contribution from the family of CFC alum Arne Jacobsen will provide more experiential learning opportunities for forestry students
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Lisa Eidson, webmaster of CFC's Wilderness.net web site, was recently lauded by the Interagency Wilderness Steering Committee for her help in planning the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Read more.
08-06-2012New research from professor Andrew Larson shows that a recent forest restoration project on the Flathead National Forest successfully restored spatial elements of old-growth forests.
Read more. 07-18-2012The spring edition of this e-publication has two stories on the College.
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06-19-2012M. Sanjayan, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a faculty affiliate in The University of Montana Wildlife Biology Program, has been named science and environmental contributor to CBS News.
Read more. 05-31-2012Forest Ecology professor Andrew Larson and co-authors report their findings that trees bigger than three feet in diameter store a disproportionately large amount of the carbon in their Yosemite National Park study site.
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05-03-2012Nearly 100 student scholarship winners were recognized at the college’s annual awards reception. A Distinguished Alumni Award was given to Missoula wilderness outfitter and teacher Smoke Elser. Rich Janssen received the Distinguished American Indian Alumni Award. Rich is the head of the Natural Resources Department of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
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Undergraduate student, Clinton Begley, creates video from the Winter Wilderness Studies Course Read more.
01-30-2012Survival study: Bitterroot elk calves captured and tagged by game researchers featured in Ravalli Republic Read more.
06-16-2011Explore how climate change is affecting folks on the ground in Bhutan. Follow a 300 kilometer bicycle ride which crosses the Himilayas in three places! The ride kicks off this July. Riders include Nicky Phear, CFC faculty member; Mara Menaham, a student from the Climate Change Studies program; and Katy-Robin Garton, a documentary filmmaker from Missoula. Read more.
09-01-2011The University of Montana is developing the next generation of wildland firefighters. Read more.
11-01-2011Sasha Reed is a former postdoc with DECS professor Dr. Cory Cleveland Read more.
11-01-2011PhD student Eric Rowell was recently awarded a NASA Fellowship through the Montana Space Grant Consortium. Read more.
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