1. Hryhoriy Krynytskyy, Prof., Dr. Sc. (Doctor of Biological Sciences).
2. Vasyl Lavnyy, Prof., Dr. Sc. ( Agricultural Sciences).
3. Serhiy Kopiy, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof.
4. Vasyl Pavliuk, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof.
5. Vasyl Mazepa, Prof., Dr. Sc. ( Agricultural Sciences).
6. Anatolii Novak, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof.
7. Liubov Kondratiuk, Assistant Lecturer
8. 8.Oksana Mykhailiv, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof.
9. Yuriy Zvarych, Assistant
10. Volodymyr Zaika, Prof., Dr. Sc. ( Agricultural Sciences).
11. Ivan Delehan, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof.
12. Ivan V. Delehan, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof.
13. Volodymyr Kramarets, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof.
14. Iryna Вazyuk-Dubey, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof.
15. Vasyl Khodzinskyi, Assistant
16. Iryna Matsiakh, Ph.D., Assistant Lecturer
17. Pavlo Khoyetskyy, Prof., Dr. Sc. ( Agricultural Sciences).
18. Elvira Rizun, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof.
19. Olha Palamarenko, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer.
20. Nataliya Pavlyuk, Ph.D., Assistant Lecturer.

The Department of Silviculture is the basic graduating department in the specialties Forestry and Hunting Management, trains specialists of educational and qualification levels of bachelor's and master's degrees. The structure of the department includes four sections: forestry, physiology and biochemistry of woody plants, forest protection, hunting. The Department has postgraduate studies, doctoral studies, the sector of applicants for scientific degrees. There are research laboratories of physiology and biochemistry of woody plants, molecular genetic markers, silviculture, entomology and phytopathology, hunting.

Educational and scientific level of training of doctors of philosophy is provided by the following disciplines:

• Protection of forest plantations
• Close-to-nature forestry
• Plant growth
• Variety of forest ecosystem tetrapods

• «New technologies of plant protection»– prepared in English by P.h.D.. Iryna Matsiah.
• «Forst politik» – prepared in German by P.h.D., prof .Vasyl Lavnyy
• «Waldbau» ("Silviculture") – – prepared in German by P.h.D., prof .Vasyl Lavnyy «Forest fires» – prepared in English by assistant lecturer Liubov Kondratyuk  
• «Ochrona lasów przed pożarami» –  prepared in Polish by P.h.D., assoc.prof Serhiy Kopiy
•  “Forest ecology”- prepared in English by P.h.D., assoc.prof  Serhiy Kopiy

In terms of science, the Department supports the introduction in Ukraine of selection system, close-to-nature forestry and the development of a new multifunctional model of forest management by types of forests and forest management, taking into account landscape and basin (watershed) principles, which integrates social, environmental and economic management goals. The model provides for an increase in the forest cover of the territory, an increase in the biotic stability and productivity of the stands, leveling the age structure of the forests, a clarification of the age of main felling in accordance with the principles of managing by the target programs, the efficient use of stands excluded from the final cutting, an increase in the volume of timber harvesting while preserving the protective functions of forests, rational use of wood.

Taking into account the scientific achievements, the main lines and priorities of the research activities of the Department are defined:

• methods and technologies for conversion of even-aged stands into mixed all-aged stands with a complex spatial structure based on natural regeneration in order to switch from a clear-cutting system of forest management to selection system, close to nature;
• forest-physiological and genetic-breeding basis for the cultivation of highly productive, biotically resistant stands;
• genetic potential of populations of major forest-forming species of Ukraine, its conservation and rational use;
• pathological processes in Ukraine’s forests and development of regional forest-protection systems;
• rational reproduction and use of resources of the hunting game fauna.

       In order to conduct research according to the defined areas, the Department set up a number of research-and-production permanent areas in the state forestry enterprises of Lviv and Ternopol regional forestry and hunting departments.

To train highly qualified forestry specialists, organize large-scale scientific and production experiments and deepen scientific research, the Department of Silviculture closely cooperates with the institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, sectoral research institutes of the State Forestry Committee of Ukraine and state forestry enterprises. The scientists of the Department also maintain creative relations with scientists from Poland, Slovakia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, France, Belarus, Moldova, Romania and several other countries.

In the future, it is planned to expand stationary forest-physiological and genetic-breeding studies of highly productive, biotically resistant forest phytocoenoses on the basis of close-to-nature forestry, intensification of work on theoretical analysis and generalization of the obtained research results concerning the formation and functioning of forest phytocoenoses, updating the material and technical base of research on woody plants.

1. Biocoenotic principles and molecular-genetic mechanisms of cultivation of biologically stable highly productive forests (2015-2017).

State Registration No.: 0115U002314. Fundamental work. Research supervisor – H.T. Krynytskyy , prof.  DBISc

Research results. Data on the distribution of mottled butt rot and some bacteriosis in pine stands. Data on defensin gene polymorphism in the genomes of trees with different resistance to pathogens of forest infections. Conclusion about the prospects of using defensins as genetic markers for the assessment and selection of genotypes of Scots pine which are resistant to biotic stress. Biocoenotic concept of introduction of close-to-nature forestry on molecular genetic basis.

2. Forestry-technological basis for the formation of mixed all-aged stands of the Carpathian region based on natural regeneration (2019-2010).

State registration No.: 0119U002106. Applied work. Research supervisor – H.T.Krynytskyy, prof. DBISc.

Research results. Analytical materials about the condition, growth and development of young generation of the forest, its species composition and uneven age in research-and-production permanent areas. List of science-based forestry and technological activities for the formation of mixed all-aged stands.

3. International project (expertise) under the Regional programs “European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) East Countries Forest Law Enforcement and Governance II Program” and “ENPI East Countries FLEG II. Theme of work:

Assessment of Forest Pests and Diseases in Native Boxwood Forests of Georgia" (July 2015 - February 2016). Research supervisor:   I.P.Matsakh , Ph.D.( Biology)

Species composition of pathogens and insect phytophagus that influence the condition of natural populations of Kolkhid boxwood. Proposals have been submitted to counteract the invasive species Cydalimaperspectalis and Calonectriapseudonaviculata.

4. Assessment of the condition and development of measures for the conservation and regeneration of the forest stands of the reserve in accordance with the requirements of the provisions on the Project for the arrangement of the territory of the PA Medobory and the protection of its natural complexes (2015-2016). Research supervisor: V.O. Kramarets, associate professor, PhD in Agr. Sci.

The condition of forests after thinning treatments is investigated. The factors affecting the functioning of forests under conditions of the conservation regime are characterized. Measures are proposed regarding the possible impact on secondary stands with the aim of forming oak forests indigenous to the region.

5. Development of projects for creation of objects of the nature reserve fund: forest reserves of local importance Solotvina, Zarychia, Razgirche, Rudno (2019). Research supervisor : V.O. Kramarets, associate professor, PhD in Agr.Sci.

The feasibility of creating four local reserves in Lviv region is substantiated.

6. Development of proposals for improving the functioning the hunting industry in Ukraine in accordance with the principles of sustainable management of natural resources (under the FLEG II International Program "Enforcement and Management in the Forest Sector of the Countries of the Eastern Region of the European Neighborhood and Partnership Institute - 2", joint project with the scientists of Azerbaijan , Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Russia). - 2015-2016 .

Research supervisor: P.B. Khoyetskyy, professor, DAgrSc.

Research results. The state of game management in the Carpathian region is analyzed. Recommendations have been prepared on optimizing the age and gender structure of populations of game ungulates (red deer, wild pig, European roe deer) and their rational use.

7. International Research Project Increasing the Adaptive Capacity of Forests in Western Ukraine, Northwestern Russia and Southwestern Germany to Changes in Environmental Conditions and Public Needs (SURGE), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (Germany) for the period May 1, 2016. - June 30, 2018. Research supervisor: V. Lavnyy , professor. DAgrSc.

Research results. In Germany (district of Freiburg), Russia (district of St. Petersburg) and Ukraine (district of Lviv), forest areas were studied, where felling of conversion of even-aged stands into mixed all-aged ones with a horizontally and vertically closed structure were conducted on the basis of natural renewal, the results of felling were analyzed with the aim of introducing selection system of close-to-nature forest management in forestry enterprises.

1. Horoshko Myroslav, Ph.D., Professor
2. Myklush Stepan, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor
3. Hrynyk Heorhiy, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Assoc. Prof.
4. Kahaniak Julian, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor
5. Ilkiv Ivan, Ph.D., assoc. Prof.
6. Havryliuk Serhii , Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.
7. Khomiuk Petro, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.
8. Korol Mykola, D., Assoc. Prof.
9. Kuryliak Viktor, D., Assoc. Prof.
10. Myklush Yuriy, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.
11. Oleh Chaskovskyy, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.
12. Vytseha Ruslan, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.
13. Nagorniak Bogdan,  research assistant
14. Portakh Stepan, research assistant

Bachelor Programs:

Specialty 191 Architecture and urban planning

Educational and professional program

Landscape architecture: Basis of Geodesy

Specialty 205 Forestry

Educational and professional programs

Forestry: Geodesy, Biostatistics, GIS in Forestry and Hunting, Forest Mensuration, Forest Inventory, Remote Sensing, Forest Paperwork, Forest Cadastre,

Hunting management: Geodesy, Biostatistics, GIS in Forestry and Hunting, Forest Mensuration and Hunting Inventory, Hunting Inventory, Remote Sensing in Hunting

Forestry engineering: Forest Mensuration and Inventory, Engineering Geodesy

Specialty 206 Park and gardening

Educational and professional program

Park and gardening: Geodesy, Biostatistics, GIS in Garden and Park Service, Landscape Mensuration, Landscape Mensuration and Garden and Park Inventory

Master programs:

Specialty 191 Architecture and urban planning

Educational and professional program

Landscape architecture: Park and Forest Inventory, GIS in Landscape Architecture

Specialty 205 Forestry

Educational and professional programs

Forestry: Forest Management, Information Technologies in Forest Management, World  Forest Resources, Special Kinds of Forest Management, Modeling of Forest Ecosystems, Permanent Forest Management, Environmental Monitoring

Hunting management: Environmental Monitoring

Specialty 206 Park and gardening

Educational and professional program

Park and gardening: Modeling of Park and Gardening Ecosystems

PhD Programs:

Specialty 205 Forestry

Educational and scientific program

Forestry: Mathematical Modeling and Experiment Planning, Analytical Methods for the Study of Forest Ecosystems, Information Technology in Forestry

1. GIS: project design (Myklush Yuriy, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.)
2. Remote sensing (Havryliuk Serhii, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.)

The department carries out scientific and pedagogical activities by professor M.P. Goroshko (morphological structure and biometric assessment of forests), S.I. Myklush (evaluation of stand productivity and aspects of multipurpose use of forest resources), Yu. Kaganyak (spatial-parametric structure of mixed plantations), H.H. Hrynyk (growth and productivity of mountain stands), associate professors O. Chaskovskyy (assessing forests by remote sensing), M.M. Korol (particularities of  forming mountain spruce stands), I.S. Ilkiv (study of morphological features and productivity of beech stands), S.A. Havryliuk (particularities of interpretation of images of forested areas), P. Khomiuk (estimation of the dynamics of forest stands in the places of ​​intensive forest management), V. Kurylak (structural potential of beech forests of the Carpathian region), R. Vytseha (forests inventory and forests monitoring) Y.S. Myklush (sustainable management and evaluation of silvicultural and recreational features of forests).

Academic staff of the department have prepared and published 18 textbooks and manuals in the following disciplines: «Biometry» (M. Goroshko, S.I. Myklush, P.G. Khomiuk), «Forest management», «Management of hunting areas», «Forest management», «Forest measurements», (M. Grom), «Forest measurements, (E. Tsuryk), «GIS in forestry» (S.I. Myklush, M. Goroshko, O.G. Chaskovskyy), «Remote sensing of the Earth in forestry» (S.I. Myklush, S.A. Havryliuk, O.G. Chaskovskyy), «Fundamentals of forest cadastre» (M.P. Goroshko, B.N. Dzyadevych, I.S. Ilkiv), «Park measurements» (Y. Kaganyak, A. Strochinsky, M.P. Goroshko) «Inventory of landscape objects (Y. Kaganyak, M.P. Goroshko, M. Korol, O. G. Chaskovskyy).

• ERASMUS +
• COST ACTIONS

FP1206 - European mixed forests - Integrating Scientific Knowledge in Sustainable Forest Management. (EuMIXFOR)

CA15226 - Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions

BALTIC UNIVERSITY PROGRAM

DAAD PROJECTS

H2020. DIABOLO. Distributed, Integrated and Harmonised Forest Information for Bioeconomy Outlooks

Inventory of green areas of Dendropark "Podillya" in Khmelnytsky 10.2015-12.2015. (0116U004043)

«The scientific rationale of creation of the dendrological park of local importance "Near the Garay" in Zhovkva, Lviv region»

(73100000-3 Research and experimental development services). Agreement SA № 08.10-13-18 for creating scientific and technical products.

«The scientific rationale for creating the park-monument of landscape art of national importance "Adamivka" in Truskavets, Lviv region»

(73100000-3 Research and experimental development services). Agreement SA № 08.09-06-19 for creating scientific and technical products.