Registration opens for a new edition of the forest restorer course

Next week registration will open for the second cohort of the forest restorer course, a training that was born in the Andean Region in response to the fires that affected large areas of forest in recent years. The training will begin on August 7 and will be held at CEA 3 in Mallín Ahogado. The information was confirmed by Juan Pablo Acosta, a member of the Union of Land Workers (UTT) Patagonia, who explained that the new edition will have the participation of different educational institutions and organizations linked to environmental and territorial work. A proposal that seeks to consolidate The forest restorer course will have its second cohort after a first experience that brought together around one hundred participants from different points of the Andean Region. The initiative arose from the need to train people trained to intervene in recovery processes of areas affected by fires, forest management and prevention of new outbreaks. Since its beginnings, the proposal combined theoretical instances with field practices in sectors impacted by fire. These included areas of Puerto Patriada, one of the places that suffered the greatest damage during the fires recorded last summer. The intention of the organizers is that the training becomes a permanent tool to strengthen the work of environmental restoration and generate specific knowledge linked to the mountain territory. Who organizes the training According to the UTT Patagonia, the new edition will be promoted jointly by the CEA 3 of Mallín Ahogado, the Agrotechnical School 717 of Lago Puelo, the CET 23, the El Bolsón Hospital and the organization itself. In addition, it will be accompanied by the Mallín Ahogado Andean Forest Service Nursery, an institution that participates in different tasks related to the production of forest species and the recovery of degraded areas. A job designed for forest restoration During the first edition, the UTT defined the forest restorer as a new job oriented to the recovery of ecosystems affected by fires and other situations of environmental degradation. The training addresses contents linked to forest management. forest, ecological restoration, production of native plants, fire prevention and territorial work. In parallel, the organization promotes the holding of a Forestry Congress in the Andean Region scheduled for November, where it is planned to debate public policies linked to forest management and environmental restoration. In this framework, the second cohort of the forest restorer course will seek to continue an experience that began after the fires and that now aims to consolidate itself as a stable training proposal in the Andean Region.