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Mark Kuhlberg

Mark teaches in the history department at Laurentian University, and his major focus is forest history. His first book, One Hundred Rings and Counting: Forestry Education and Forestry in Toronto and Canada, 1907-2007 (UTP, 2009), chronicles the first century of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Forestry. He is revising for publication an analysis of the Ontario government's approach to dealing with the province's pulp and paper industry between 1894 and 1932. His present project entails a SSHRC-funded examination of Canada's pioneering efforts to combat forest insects using chemicals released from aircraft during the 1920s. He has published academic articles that address topics ranging from industry's silvicultural initiatives in northern Ontario during the 1920s to the remarkable career of a "good" Agent in the Department of Indian Affairs during the first half of the twentieth century. For more than one decade, he has worked for First Nations in northern Ontario preparing historical reports to substantiate their timber and flooding claims.

Mark is extremely active in the realms of both forest history and contemporary forestry operations. He sits as one of four Canadian members on the [American] Forest History Society, based at Duke University in North Carolina. He is also one of the founding members of the Forest History Society of Ontario, and sits on its board. In addition, he has been involved in local forestry boards in the Sudbury area, has delivered numerous papers at professional forestry conferences, and has been nominated to sit on the Council for the Ontario Professional Foresters' Association.



	Mark Kuhlberg Email: mkuhlberg@laurentian.ca Mark teaches in the history department at Laurentian University, and his major focus is forest history. His first book, One Hundred Rings and Counting: Forestry Education and Forestry in Toronto and Canada, 1907-2007 (UTP, 2009), chronicles the first century of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Forestry. He is revising for publication an analysis of the Ontario government's approach to dealing with the province's pulp and paper industry between 1894 and 1932. His present project entails a SSHRC-funded examination of Canada's pioneering efforts to combat forest insects using chemicals released from aircraft during the 1920s. He has published academic articles that address topics ranging from industry's silvicultural initiatives in northern Ontario during the 1920s to the remarkable career of a "good" Agent in the Department of Indian Affairs during the first half of the twentieth century. For more than one decade, he has worked for First Nations in northern Ontario preparing historical reports to substantiate their timber and flooding claims. Mark is extremely active in the realms of both forest history and contemporary forestry operations. He sits as one of four Canadian members on the [American] Forest History Society, based at Duke University in North Carolina. He is also one of the founding members of the Forest History Society of Ontario, and sits on its board. In addition, he has been involved in local forestry boards in the Sudbury area, has delivered numerous papers at professional forestry conferences, and has been nominated to sit on the Council for the Ontario Professional Foresters' Association.
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