The institute's history is virtually synonymous with the evolution and development of scientific forestry, not only in India, but over the entire sub-continent.

The building was listed for a time, in the Guinness Book of Records, as the largest purely brick structure in the world.

The institute has a developed infrastructure of all equipped laboratories, library, herbarium, arboreta, printing press and experimental field areas for conducting forestry research.

[5][6] FRI and College Area campus is a census town, between Kaulagarh in the north and the Indian Military Academy to the south.

IIFM is an independent autonomous organization of MoEF and has good liaisons with FRI for forestry research and related activities.

Presently IIM Kashipur running its executive management course on weekends for working person in this campus.

There are six sections in the museum: More than a dozen movies Dulhan Ek Raat Ki, Krishna Cottage, Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, 404, Paan Singh Tomar, Nanban, Student of the Year, Student of the Year 2, Dilli Khabar, Yaara, Genius, Dear Daddy and Maharshi were majorly shot in this campus.

[8] Rash Behari Bose worked here as a head clerk, before becoming a full-time participant in the Independence movement.