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The Forest Research Institute is an institute of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and is a premier institution in the field of forestry research in India. It is located at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, and is one of the oldest institutions of its kind. In 1991, it was declared a deemed university by the University Grants Commission. It was found
ed in 1878, as the British Imperial Forest School, by Dietrich Brandis. In 1906, it was re-established as the ‘Imperial Forest Research Institute’, under the British Imperial Forestry Service.