Its is one of many attraction in dehradun city.FRI was founded in 1878 as the British Imperial Forest Research Institute and later changed to Indian Forest research institute during the 1900.
Before FRI the Forest research institute was inplace of the famous Doon school at Mall Road.
FRI Dehradun is one of the oldest institutions of its time. For a short period of time it was also listed in the guinnes world record for being the largest brick made structure on earth.
The lush greenary is about a massive 450+ hectares of land.It supports lab, museums and old geographical land maps.
Within in its campus its host the indra gandhi national forest acadamy.which is a penical in terms of advancement in bio paper technology.
The Fri has many museums like siliviculture, entomology, wood and non- wood museums.
Has one of the rarest safes of the british era as well.It is truely marked by feel of great and breathtaking attention to detail.