The person who could value the forests, Claudio Donoso Zegers

 

The person i am going to  talk about is chilean forestal engineer Claudio Donoso Zegers, he was an academic and professor at the Universidad Austral and Universidad de Chile.

Donoso dedicated his life to study and define the types of forest in Chile. All the information that he collected from the forest was written in several publications where they are found about forest ecology, forest dynamics and forestry. 

The contributions that Donoso made to the forestry scientific community are inmense, he was the one who carried out the preliminary studies to demonstrate that Nothofagus leonii is a hybrid between Nothofagus obliqua and Nothofagus glauca.

Also he contributed to the national policy with its contribution to value forests and benefit society. He actively participated in the design of policies, laws and regulations for Chile´s native forests. And important milestone was the creation of the forest typology for Chile (1981).

He contributed to the creation and development of the Asociacion de Ingenieros Forestales por el Bosque Nativo. 

Undoudtedly he is one of the best references for forestry engineering students and for lovers of the Chilean native forest.