Thunder Bay's Lakehead University's Faculty of Forestry and Forest Environment has changed its name to the Faculty of Natural Resources Management. The faculty has also restructured its undergraduate programming.
Ulf Runesson, faculty dean said the name change better reflects the "mission to meet related challenges and opportunities," such as adapting to climate change, responding to new economic realities for Ontario, and more motivated public toward forestry stewardship.
Academic vice president Laurie Hayes said the new faculty provides an easy pathway for graduates who want to enter the final two years of specialization.
"Lakehead has a longstanding commitment to academic leadership in forested ecosystems, a commitment which continues to be a focus with these recent changes."
Lakehead has had educational programming in the forest sciences since the 1950s which began with forest technologist diplomas and evolved through the addition of bachelors and masters degrees, later expanding to PhDs in forest science.
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