NEW GISF Research Paper 011: Large Timberland Transactions in the Northern Forest 1980 - 2006
Lloyd C. Irland, John Hagan, and Jack Lutz

Forests and Carbon: A Synthesis of Science, Management, and Policy for Carbon Sequestration in Forests
Mary L. Tyrrell, Mark S. Ashton, Deborah Spalding, and Bradford Gentry, Editors

The Global Institute offers week-long courses that bring the latest thinking on sustainable forestry management to working professionals.
Executive level courses are offered for management professionals with no background in forestry whose work requires an understanding of forestry, as well as for those with forestry background.

Forest Stand Dynamics is an intensive course for forestry practitioners.
Rescheduling 2012 Forest Stand Dynamics - We are looking into rescheduling the cancelled 2012 Forest Stand Dynamics Course for either March 11 - 16 or April 29 - May 4.  Please contact Barbara Ruth if interested.

Students are involved with GISF in many ways, from student assistantships to collaborating on speakers series and events.

The Art of Wood

The Art of Wood is semester long celebration of the cultural and aesthetic values of forests and wood products.

Yale Forest Forum Lunchtime Seminar Series
YFF Lunchtime seminars are now credited .5 CEU for CT Forest Practitioners.  See Barbara Ruth to receive certificate.

February 16, 2012
Bill Possiel, President, National Forest Foundation and Michael Parks, Yale FES MEM candidate

"Our National Forests and Grasslands - Water, Carbon, Biodiversity and Natural Wonders"
 

February 23, 2012
Dan Perlman, Associate Provost for Assessment and Innovation in Student Learning and Associate Professor of Biology, Brandeis University

"Early Days at the Yale School of Forestry: A Pictorial History of the 1913 and 1914 Field Seasons"

NEW: Embracing Complexity: Meeting the Challenges of International Forest Governance. A Global Assessment Report
Ben Cashore, Director of the Global Institute's Program on Forest Policy and Governance served on a IUFRO panel of experts on forest governance, which has issued a new study looking at the effects of international accords on deforestation.

Highlands Regional Study: Connecticut and Pennsylvania 2010 Update is now available online. Global Insititute members contributed to the 213 page report, identifying areas of high conservation values.
 

Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry Lantern Slide collection: Rare Images from Forestry’s Past

Images from the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry's Lantern Slide collection: Rare Images from Forestry's Past.

Since its founding in 1900, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has been in the forefront of developing a science-based approach to forest management, and in training leaders world-wide.

The Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry established in 2000 continues this tradition. It's mission is to integrate, strengthen and direct the School's forestry research, education and outreach to address the challenges of sustaining forests in the 21st century and a globalized world.