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This work, prepared for the special issue of Journal Floresta, aimed to bring together the most significant contributions made by professors and collaborators in the area of Forest Management in the undergraduate and graduate courses in Forestry at the UFPR during the last 50 years. For its elaboration, it was decided by the sectorization of its content in themes, whose sequence included the evolution in the fields of forest mensuration, forest inventory, geotechnologies, statistics, planning and optimization of forest production, biomass and carbon in forests and their products, forest management, and their prospects. The reports clearly showed that during this period there were major evolutions and improvements in the training of forest engineers, as well as masters and doctors in this field of knowledge. The research was developed during this period, not only in the theoretical domain, but also in the technological and operational ground, due to the group's strong interaction with the productive forest sector and with the public institutions of the state of Paraná and the federal government. The training of masters and doctors was expressive, with the highest productivity in the Graduate Program in Forest Engineering at UFPR. In all the topics covered were presented the new directions for the evolution of scientific and technological knowledge in the field of Forest Management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]