Lakehead University Forestry Association - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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Dr. A.J. Kayall MJS Dr. W. Carmean RES K.W. Hearnden Director Associate Professor Dean of Students R.T. Walker MJS G. Vanson MJS R. Pickard RSA Technical Assistant Technical Assistant Technical Assistant 5

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From the Top This has been a year of change and transition for the Lakehead University School of Forestry, and also for forestry in Canada. Early in the year Ken Hearnden, after many years of dedicated service as director of the School of Forestry, assumed the responsibilities of Dean of Students, and our Director Dr. Jim Kayll took over the helm of the School at the end of the year. During 1981 we will closely examine the past and present programs of the School of Forestry, and then we will take steps leading to the development of new programs that will address the current and future needs of forestry education in Ontario and Canada. The future programs of the School of Forestry must be developed with an awareness that forestry in Canada also is in a stage of change and transition. We are moving from a time of exploitation and extensive management into an era of intensive management and more com- plete utilization. These changes are spurred by increased Canadian and world populations, by increased needs for forest products, and by the need for alternative sources of energy. The themes for the 1980 and 1981 LUFA Symposium reflect these forestry changes - in 1980 the theme was Biomass, and in 1981 the theme was Forest Management Agreements between forest industry and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. More intensive forest management of the future will require new forestry practices that presently may be considered theoretical and impractical. And no doubt the future will see new and radically different forestry practices emerge from research yet to be accomplished. These forestry changes are bound to produce radical changes in forestry employment as well as changes in forestry education in Canada. More intensive forest management and more advanced forestry practices will require greater number of foresters. These forestry graduates will need advanced scientific knowledge, and they also will need superior administrative skills. And producing greater numbers of forestry graduates having superior training will require an expansion and an improvement of forestry education at Lakehead University as well as at other Canadian Schools of Forestry. We will need more faculty having advanced and specialized knowledge, and also we will need more sophistocated laboratory and field equip- ment. Our forestry degree program must be expanded and improved. Our graduate program must likewise be expanded and improved so that highly trained graduate students will be available for the needs of forest industry, government agencies, Canadian forest research stations, and Canadian Schools of Forestry. Dr. Willard H. Carmean, Acting Director.

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Dr. A.D. MacDonald MJS Associate Professor K. Kovacs Lab Demonstrator MJS m D. Mothersill Lab Demonstrator MJS A. Spring Lab Demonstrator Dr. W. Parker Professor G. Hamilton Lab Demonstrator F. Bennett Lab Demonstrator T. Spanton Lab Demonstrator RES MJS MJS Dr. P. Knowles Assistant Professor PCH A. Grey Lab Demonstrator MJS T. Krickl Lab Demonstrator MJS Log Boom, Longlac MJL 6