Our School, established as one of the first natural resource programs in the country, has been "creating futures since 1907." On July 1, 2009, the College of Forest Resources became the School of Forest Resources within the University of Washington's new College of the Environment, and on January 1, 2012 the School became the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. Our vision is to provide world class, internationally recognized knowledge and leadership for environmental and natural resource issues. Our programs focus on the sustainable development of products from natural resources and the sustainable management of environments that include wilderness and park-like ecosystems, intensively managed planted forests, and urban environments. Our new name acknowledges the increasingly integrative and interdisciplinary challenges in environmental and natural resources management throughout the world, and the need to educate professionals to meet these challenges.
Future Forestry Leaders Graduate Research Symposium, February 24-25, 2012, Vancouver, BC
SEFS Sustaining our World Lecture with alum Eric Dinerstein, '79, '83, Chief Scientist, World Wildlife Fund, March 1, 2012
SEFS Graduate Student Symposium, March 2, 2012
Plant Biodiversity Conference, March
13-14, 2012, UW Botanic Gardens
Wildlife, Water, and Silviculture seminars are open to the public!
Engage Science Speaker Seminar Series, "UW Science Now," at Seattle's Town Hall features several SEFS graduate students.
Read UW Today story and watch slide show on a multidisciplinary project that won a SEED Award for excellence in public interest design, "A Peruvian slum gets a massive green makeover." Professor Susan Bolton was a participant.
Read UW Today story and watch slide show on saving trees toppled under heavy snow in the Washington Park Arboretum, "If a tree falls in the ‘forest,’ UW Botanic Garden arborists hear."
Eric Dinerstein, ’79, ‘83 is a 24-year veteran of the World Wildlife Fund, where he has led an unprecedented effort to identify every ecoregion on earth and define the most biologically important wildlife species. Known as the “Global 200,” this effort guides WWF’s fieldwork in more than 100 countries and has helped develop key strategies to protect a number of endangered species, including tigers, elephants, one-horned rhinos, and snow leopards. Dinerstein will give the SEFS Winter 2011 Sustaining our World lecture, "All Together Now: Linking Ecosystem Services, Endangered Species Conservation, and Local Livelihoods," on March 1st, 6 p.m., in Kane Hall 220. MORE >>
