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The Ontario Forest Research Institute (OFRI) is home to MNR’s main forest research section. Researchers at this institute are working hard to better understand forests and their responses to human activities. What they learn helps ensure that Ontario’s forest management policies, planning, guides, and practices are firmly rooted in science.
If you’d like to know more about OFRI, browse this website or e-mail your questions to information.ofri@ontario.ca. Who's at OFRI besides forest research?
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OFRI news feed
Go to: Far North/climate change | boreal forests |
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence/southern forests | bioeconomy
- OFRI scientists recognized nationally and internationally for their expertise; conference talks focused on using biofuel, managing mixedwoods, and controlling tree diseases
- Recorded seminar: So Happy Together: How J.D. Irving is Using Endophytic Fungi to Help Tree Seedlings Tolerate Insects and Disease
- OFRI’s growth facilities: Growing research successes for more than two decades
- May we suggest..? 10 OFRI publications every resource professional should have on their e-reader
- Tiny beetle vanquishes Bellevue Park's purple loosestrife — Victory tempered by arrival of new invader (Sault Star article)
- Got uncertainty or incomplete data? New book tells how expert knowledge could help
- Recorded seminar: MNR’s Natural Heritage Information Centre
- Read all about OFRI's memorable discoveries over 20 years
- What do we know about permafrost peatlands and the effects of climate on peatland carbon? + facts about peat and peatlands
- Want to help fight climate change? Plant a tree! Here's how to do it
- Research snapshot: Modelling effects of climate change on diameter growth of jack pine and black spruce + facts about jack pine and black spruce
- Research snapshot: Balancing sustainability with carbon when it comes to forests mitigating climate change + facts about forest carbon
- Journey of a peat core: from a frozen peatland in the Far North to a lab at OFRI
- Assessing the vulnerability of Ontario’s Clay Belt area to climate change + facts about the Clay Belt
- Far North peatland carbon: A quagmire of questions
- Will Polar Bear Provincial Park be growing maple in 2100?
- Climate envelopes are moving—will Ontario’s trees be left behind?
- Sink or source? Modelling carbon stocks in Ontario’s forests
- Hey, kids! Check out MNR's Far North activity book!
- Recorded seminar: Extensive Conifer Needle Browning in Northwestern Ontario in Spring 2012
- OFRI researchers are the first to test jack pine rooted cuttings in the field with excellent results + facts about jack pine
- New report gives a bird’s eye view of one of Ontario’s largest 2011 wildfires
- Maintaining aspen quality in boreal mixedwoods + facts about trembling aspen
- Recorded seminar: lidar in forestry
- Sensitivity of lichens to forest herbicides + facts about lichens
- Eastern white cedar research + facts about eastern cedar
- Recorded seminar: Earthworms and other invasive species
- Managing plants that compete with eastern white cedar
- Regrowing mixedwood forests after severe wind storms
- Two decades of plant diversity research
- What have we learned about releasing conifers from competition?
- Regenerating boreal mixedwood forests without losing the conifers
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence/southern forests
- Does it look like someone splashed black paint on your maple's leaves? It's black tar spot!
- Beech bark disease leads to cutting of hundreds of trees at Killbear Provincial Park—and new OFRI research
- How a seed cut can affect white pine seed production
- “Cat poop on a stick” fungus has funny name; fruit growers not amused
- Recorded seminar: The Relentless Advance of Beech Bark Disease: What Will It Leave Behind? (watch CTV news interview with John McLaughlin about beech bark disease!)
- Recorded seminar: Managing White Pine Blister Rust Using Genetic Resistance: Are We Ready for a Compromise?
- The amazing journey of Ontario former blowsand areas (recently updated!)
- Research snapshot: Dooks needle blight on the rise in white pine; Macedonian pine hit especially hard + facts about eastern white pine
- Invading aliens attacking American beech; new research note offers help + facts about American beech
- Recorded seminar: Lidar in forestry
- Recorded seminar: Forest certification
- Can introducing genetic resistance help manage blister rust in eastern white pine?
- How a laser is helping researchers to see Ontario’s Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forests
- Research into saving the endangered butternut
- Research snapshot: Could Ontario become a producer of value-added chemicals from wood-based bio-oil? + facts about bio-oil
- Ontario's forest bioeconomy: Wood pellets, biodiesel, medicines, and more!
- Recorded OFRI seminar: Bioeconomy doubleheader
- Canada yew sustainable harvest guidelines get the thumbs up
