Value Forestry Engineering | The redfor.ar launches the Week of Forest Sciences throughout the country
With virtual and face -to -face talks, from August 11 to 16, an open call to young people, students, researchers, teachers and the general public will be held in the countrys forestry faculties. The proposal is framed in the Forest Sciences Week: an invitation to connect with our forests, in order to know the goods and services they provide, to assess them.
An event of national scope promoted by the Argentine Network of Forest Science and Technology (Redfor.ar), will be held from August 11 to 16, and will be attended by professionals from the five forest faculties located in La Plata, Misiones, Esquel, Formosa and Santiago del Estero. The initiative seeks to bring the value of the professional in Forest Sciences closer to the community, through a complete program of educational and scientific activities. The proposal is given within the framework of the celebration on August 16 is celebrated on the day of the Argentine Forest Engineer, in commemoration by the first forest engineer who graduated from an Argentine university. It was in 1963, in the Faculty of Forestry Engineering of Santiago del Estero, then dependent on the National University of Córdoba, which was received by Ing. Ftal. Héctor Reuter.The professionals are dedicated to the management, planning and administration of natural resources, to the conservation of biodiversity as strategic areas of knowledge. Those in charge of constantly finding the paths so that the society of forest products can be supplied continuously and environmentally correctly, in recent years it gained even more weight due to the question of global warming and the increasingly rigorous environmental legislation Forestry and sustainable management to preserve and guarantee production in balance with the conservation of nature.
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