Forest Department
The faculty has scientific teams fully prepared to solve complex natural problems of forest management, diagnosing forest habitats, forest protection, planning and performing economic activities as well as predicting the effects of their implementation for both the forest itself and the geographical
The faculty has scientific teams fully prepared to solve complex natural problems of forest management, diagnosing forest habitats, forest protection, planning and performing economic activities as well as predicting the effects of their implementation for both the forest itself and the geographical environment of which they are part.
In the last five years, research has focused on the following priorities:
• structure and dynamics of forest vegetation in mountainous regions of southern Poland
• research on the development of natural and developed stands; structure and production of forest ecosystem biomass
• modeling of potential productivity of mountain stands
• models of forest development and functioning in various ways of development
• impact of the type and intensity of thinning treatments on the growth of mountain beech and fir stands
• use of molecular markers to identify and determine the biodiversity of forest biocenoses
• circulation of elements in forest ecosystems
• forest remediation
• research on species of pathogenic forest tree fungi
• research on forest tree disease processes and their conditions, with particular emphasis on mountainous and industrial areas
• research on bionomy and ecology of selected groups of phytophagous insects and their entomophages
• improving knowledge of the climate and its conditions in mountain forest communities
• research on distinguishing highly productive provenance of the main forest tree species for widespread cultivation in mountain conditions
• atmosphere-stand-soil water balance study in lowland and mountainous forest communities
• examination of technical and technological parameters of selected forest machines and their impact on the environment
• optimization of timber harvesting and the use of forest resource bases in sustainable and sustainable forest management
• the impact of anthropogenic pollution and extreme climatic conditions on the activation of biotic factors harmful to transformations in forest environments
• impact of forest environment transformations in the Carpathians on the functioning of animals
• forest management in mountain health resorts.
History of the Faculty of Forestry of the Agricultural University Hugo Kołłątaj in Krakow
In the years 1890-1923 an Agricultural College existed at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University. Systematic research and lectures in the field of forest sciences as part of this study began in 1919, when the consent for the creation of the Department of Forestry was obtained. Its organizer, manager and authority in this field of research was prof. Stanisław Sokołowski.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the growing number of cathedrals and factories led to some difficulties in efficiently managing a very large department. In 1923, pursuant to the regulation of the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment (from August 18, 1923), eleven departments and departments of the Agricultural College from the Faculty of Philosophy were separated and incorporated (September 15, 1923) into the newly created Faculty of Agriculture. The employees of the College (42 people in total) moved to the new faculty. Students of the Agricultural College, enrolled in the Faculty of Philosophy, were matriculated again at the Faculty of Agriculture. Members of the former Agricultural Commission of the Faculty of Philosophy passed to the Council of the new faculty, and the first dean of the faculty for the 1923/24 academic year was the current director of the College - prof. Stefan Surzycki. The full name of the new faculty was the Faculty of Agriculture of the Jagiellonian University. Under the agreements concluded, the Faculty of Agriculture provided itself with the help of the faculties and plants of the Faculty of Philosophy, necessary for the implementation of the new study program.