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 February 21, 2024

Bioluminescent fungi, Oct 2023

Bioluminescent fungi -Hygrocybe prieta
Hygrocybe prieta: bioluminescent fungi. This is a mushroom of the waxcap genus Hygrocybe. *

Exploring the Enchanted Forest: Night-Time Hikes with Kurt Miller in Las Casas de la Selva Forest.

A team of adventurous explorers was granted the extraordinary opportunity to witness one of the natural world’s most enchanting phenomena: the trails of the Las Casas de la Selva rainforest illuminated by the ethereal glow of bioluminescent fungi. Under the expert guidance of the esteemed mycologist Kurt Miller, the participants embarked on a mesmerizing midnight trek. This unique journey allowed them to immerse themselves in the forest’s captivating luminescence, where the natural radiance of the fungi became the highlight of their adventure.

Kurt Miller, with his expertise and passion for fungi, led the group through the dense foliage, unveiling the hidden wonders of the forest under the cover of darkness. The bioluminescent fungi, a phenomenon where fungi emit light through a chemical reaction, turned the forest into a living, glowing entity. This extraordinary sight, often unseen by the day’s light, offered participants a unique glimpse into the mystical life of the rainforest.

The event, seamlessly organized by Raquel Torres-Arzola, included not just the hike but an immersive experience with an overnight stay in the heart of the rainforest. Raquel’s efforts ensured that every participant was well taken care of, providing a delicious dinner and breakfast that catered to all food preferences, making the adventure as comfortable as it was exhilarating.

Special thanks are also due to 3t, Paula Isabel Arzola, Abdelmonem Assi, and Andres Rua, whose contributions were invaluable in making the event a success. Their help with organizing and managing the logistics allowed participants to fully immerse themselves in the experience without worry.

For those adventurous souls who missed out on this spectacular event, there’s good news. Raquel Torres-Arzola is your go-to contact for signing up for future expeditions. These night-time hikes are tailored for those who are able to navigate the forest’s terrain after dark. Whether you’re looking to join as an individual or as part of a friend or family group of up to 18 people, there’s an opportunity for everyone. It’s important to note that these adventures are designed for physically fit participants over the age of 15, ensuring that all involved can safely enjoy the hike.

Las Casas de la Selva rainforest offers more than just a hike; it offers an opportunity to connect with nature on a profound level, to see the unseen, and to learn from experts like Kurt Miller. If you’re seeking an adventure that combines the thrill of exploration with the beauty of nature’s own light show, then this is an experience you won’t want to miss.

Stay tuned for more opportunities to explore the glowing heart of the rainforest and witness the magic of bioluminescent fungi with Kurt Miller and the dedicated team that makes these journeys possible.

Lentinus scleropus at Las Casas de la Selva, Patillas, Puerto Rico.

Thank you, Kurt Miller, for your love of fungi.

*Hygrocybe prieta: bioluminescent fungi. This is a mushroom of the waxcap genus Hygrocybe. Described as new to science in 1990, it is found in Puerto Rico, where it grows on clay banks under boulders and elevated tree roots.

Friends of Las Casas de la Selva Movies Puerto Rico Hardwoods Wood Woodwork Woodworker
 April 25, 2023

Puerto Rico Has Wood! 2023

Andres Rua has made an incredible documentary about wood in Puerto Rico. What a cast of characters!!
Dedicated to Frank H. Wadsworth



Movie with English subtitles: https://youtu.be/nYVenNN6VgU?si=SWDyebeq9cYE7_Iw

Este proyecto ha sido realizado gracias a:

Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño y el National Endowment for the Arts

‘Puerto Rico Tiene Madera’, Un proyecto de Andrés Rúa

Videos y fotos de archivo:

Andrés Rúa, Thrity Vakil, Thomas Marvel Fuller, Ariza Torres

Asesoría técnica:

Thomas Marvel Fuller, Raquel Torres Arzola, y Paula Arzola

Música:

Andrés Rúa González

Partiparon:

Juan Luis Villalobos – Artesano, Ciales

Javier Otero – Aserraderos Otero, Ciales

Javier Fernando Otero Sastre – De tal Palo, Ciales

Rafael Joglar Ph.D. – Catedrático UPR, Rio Piedras

Ariel Lugo Ph.D. – Instituto Internacional de Dasonomía Tropical

Jorge Nieves – Historiador

Dania Rivera Ocasio Ph.D. – Servicio de Extención Agrícola, Corozal

George Félix Ph.D.- Ingeniero Forestal

Carmen Eloisa González – Artesana

Mark Nelson Ph.D. – Institute of Ecotechnics – Nuevo México

Saul (Guatú) Pérez Soler – Aserradero ArteGuatú, Quebradillas

Edgardo González – Director, Centro para la Conservación del Paisaje

William Gould Ph.D. – Centro para el Cambio Climático del Caribe, USDA

Magaly Figueroa – Instituto Internacional de Dasonomía Tropical

Yariliz Quiles Martínez – Instituto Internacional de Dasonomía Tropical

Humfredo Marcano Vega Ph.D. – USDA, Análisis de Inventario Forestal

Scott Landis – Fundador y P residente Greenwood Global

Sheila Emily Ward – Sociedad Internacional de Forestales Tropicales

Evelyn Vázquez – Artesana

Jan Rivera Lugo – Arquitecto, SiempreNunca, Carolina

Daniel Franco Rodríguez – Luthier, Caguas

René Delgado – Taller Escuela, Carolina

Roberto Bello – Biólogo, Centro para la Conservación del Paisaje

José Juan González – Aserradero Rio Encantado, Florida

Thrity Vakil – Tropic Ventures Research and Education Foundation, Patillas

William González – Arbolista Certificado ISA, Econet, Caguas

Sally González -Catedrática UPR, Mayagüez

Hector Rodríguez – Programa Fomento Artesanal, PRIDCO

Oscar Abelleira Ph.D. – Catedrático Asociado UPR, Mayagüez

Enrique (Quique) Casanova – DRNA, Utuado

Gerardo Hernández – DRNA, Orocovis

Yivaldo Juan Morales – Estudiante graduado, UPR Mayagüez

Anthony Pérez Méndez – Auxiliar de Investigaciones, UPR Mayagüez

Oscar Marecelo Suárez Ph.d. – Profesor UPR Mayagüez

Elvin Roman Aponte – Estudiante graduado, UPR Mayagüez

Jonathan Luquis Ramos – Estudiante subgraduado, UPR Mayagüez

Norman Greenhawk

Eva Holupchiski

Carlos Narváez

Karim González

Jairo González

Agradecimientos a:

Programa Apoyo a las Artes y al personal del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño  y del National Endowment for the Arts

Raquel, Paula, Jairo y Karim

Juanita, Andrés, Ramón, Vanessa, Axel, a toda mi familia y al pueblo de Patillas PR.

Thrity, Tom, Ariza, Eduardo y José, de Puerto Rico Hardwoods

A todo el personal del Instituto Internacional de Dasonomía Tropical del USFS

Al personal del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales

Institute of Ecotechnics

Logía Derecho , Libertad y Dignidad de los Valles de Patillas #73

Centro de Innovación Educativa del Museo de Arte de PR

Gorilla Lawn  Care & Property Maintenance

Isabelita Colorado y a toda  la familia del Dr. Wadsworth

Dedico este trabajo a la memoria del Dr. Frank Wadsworth.

(3t’s tribute to Frank: https://designrr.page/?id=252059&token=1021058104&type=FP&h=6612&fbclid=IwAR0VPJnnRZNRnnpGYNoLDSmo5hpySNmYszWAn955Fd_t92v4syJLZncsoaQ)

Community Friends of Las Casas de la Selva
 November 26, 2019

Happy Birthday to Frank H Wadsworth 104 years old today! Nov 2019

To our favorite forester, Frank, who turns 104 today. Thank you for all the inspiration you have given to us over many years now. Happy Birthday!!

  • Frank and 3t, 2009
  • 3t and Frank, 2009, planning our Liberation study. L-R: Andres Rua, Mark Nelson, Enrique Santiago-Irizarry, Molly Robertson, and Bridget McNassar. Photo by Isabel Colorad0
  • 2010
  • At Puerto Rico Hardwoods, Caguas with 3t and Andres, 2018
  • September 2019
  • Symposium “No Escape:The Reality of Climate Change Here & Now” 30th Oct 2019 Photo by Thrity Vakil
  • Frank at Las Casas de la Selva in 2009. Photo by Thrity Vakil
  • 3t and Bridget McNassar, 2009 at The International Institute of Tropical Forestry. Meeting with the foresters our Liberation plots got named after. L-R: Edgardo Gonzalez, Frank H. Wadsworth, & Peter Weaver, Photo by Andrés Rúa
  • Andres, Frank, and 3t, 2009
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 October 14, 2017

HELP US rescue the wood from fallen trees after Hurricane Maria

Friends around the planet! Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico. All around us there are fallen trees of valuable hardwoods. We cannot allow these tree trunks to be dumped into landfill or chipped into small pieces. Help us raise the funds needed to begin the process of dealing with the situation.

The road in front of us is long and hard, but we must be responsible for our futures and create sustainable living on this small island of Puerto Rico, in every way possible. If you feel helpless right now, here is one way to help relief efforts, by helping us to save tree trunks from the debris and to mill the wood for use.

Puerto Rico Hardwoods (PRH),maintains that sustainability must start with minimization of waste, and intelligent use of local resources rather than contributing to the devastation of forests in other countries.

As many of you know, PRH was created and developed by Andrés Rúa and Thrity Vakil. As founders and former directors of the Agroforestry Development Advisory Council (CADA), Rúa and Vakil’s broader vision is to promote sustainable forestry on the island, and to reduce the vegetative waste going to landfill. They are both current Directors of Tropic Ventures Sustainable Forestry and Rainforest Enrichment Project in Patillas, Puerto Rico, established 30 years ago by The Institute of Ecotechnics.

Thank you for your support. We cannot do it without you.

14th October, 2017

Friends of Las Casas de la Selva Teeshirts
 December 7, 2016

Buy an Eye On The Rainforest Teeshirt

Everyone who has ever been to Las Casas de la Selva, Sustainable Forestry project in Puerto Rico knows how important it is for us to access our forest. Several years ago, we lost our main bridge completely after the impact of two hurricanes and many tropical storms. We would like to build a new bridge, and access road, but we really need your help. Here’s a tee designed by 3t, that looks great, is reasonably priced, and will help us raise funds. 3t and Andrés are grateful for all you can do. Buy one for yourself (and one for a friend) as a Christmas or holiday gift, and we will work to make this bridge and road manifest together. Thank you!

Bridge/Road Building Project-Las Casas de la Selva
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 August 7, 2016

E. E. King volunteers at Las Casas de la Selva, June 2016

Writer, biologist and artist, Evie King came to volunteer and worked on many diverse projects around the homestead, painted some cheerful frogs and lizards onto the bare walls of el teatro, and also helped out with managing a teen Earthwatch team. Evie first came here in 2005 to partake in some of our earlier Earthwatch research expeditions. Thank you Evie, we really appreciated having you here! And thanks for all the chocolate! (more about Evie below)

E.E. King is a performer, writer, biologist and painter. Ray Bradbury calls her stories “marvelously inventive, wildly funny and deeply thought provoking. I cannot recommend them highly enough.” Her books are;” Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife,” “Real Conversations with Imaginary Friends,” “The Adventures of Emily Finfeather – The Feathernail and Other Gifts” and “Another Happy Ending.” She has won numerous awards and been published widely. She is the recipient of two International Tides painting fellowships, and two international biology Earthwatch grants. She was an adviser for the J. Paul Getty’s and the Science Center’s, Arts &; Science program. She was the Science and Arts coordinator in Bosnia with Global Children’s Organization (a summer camp for war orphans and refugees) in 2000. She was the founding Arts & Sciences Director for Esperanza Community Housing Corporation . She has worked with children in Bosnia, crocodiles in Mexico, frogs in Puerto Rico, egrets in Bali, mushrooms in Montana, archaeologists in Spain and planted butterfly gardens in South Central Los Angeles. https://www.elizabetheveking.com/

Friends of Las Casas de la Selva Volunteers
 July 26, 2016

London actor/producers join Las Casas de la Selva for labor in the forest! June 2016

Both Claudia and Irving have been long-term associates of the Institute of Ecotechnics, and we were delighted to have them come and volunteer at Las Casas de la Selva. Irving traveled with Johnny from London and stayed for over May into June month, whilst Claudia came in for two weeks at the beginning of June. We loved every moment of their stay, and appreciated their help, with overall management of groups, the timber business, and nursery work.

See images of their time here.

About Claudia Bolton: Founder member of Beryl and the Perils (that 3t saw back in the 1980s whilst at College studying theater design with Malcolm Griffiths at Trent, Nottingham)– Fast Furious Feminist Fun in the 70’s/80’s. Warped seriously first time around, ICA/ Edinburgh at the Regency Cinema. 79-80 with Ken Campbell; Warped again second generation with Ken and Daisy Eris Campbell. Actor/Managed that beast for 2 years at the Drome 1999-2001.

In between Warps: among many other things, in lieu of a theatre PHD, she played Winnie in Sam Beckett’s Happy Days and toured herself around the world. – “As Winnie you can pick up a Willie `anywhere, after all he only has 5 lines!” – She performed it in Nepal, On the beach in Bali, In The Outback, at BIosphere 2 in Arizona, NYC and finally at a proper Beckett Festival in Holland with the Incredible Orlando, blind Jack Birkett, playing Willie. Through the 90’s Claudia put on original productions everywhere, especially guest directing at the painter Symon’s, Space Island LIght Industrial Theatre in Bali – an exquisite open air ampitheatre designed by Buckminster Fuller. In 1999/2001 Claudia created the role of the `Serpent in Peter Greenaway’s prop Opera. ‘100 Objects to Represent the World,’ another far more glamorous World Tour! From Salzburg to Rio, Naples to Mexico City and on, though sadly never London.

Post Warp 2, what to do? Small shows! Table Top Theatre – dramatic story telling of classic tales in short form. Greek Tragedy, Hamlet. still very available for hire! Also creating original dramas for kids (home schooling). Directed Robert Anton Wilson’s, Wilhelm Reich In Hell, in the 80’s at the October Gallery London which was a gas, as it was to meet him and get personal permission. Also “Deconstruction of Countdown” – based on William Burrough’s Naked Lunch for Studio 7 at October Gallery, 2013. Claudia is really thrilled that the Cosmic Trigger Play is manifesting NOW in a wonderful lineage of evolutionary Theatre.

About Irving Rappaport: Irving Rappaport is an award winning film and theatre producer whose West End shows include ‘The Seven Year Itch’ starring Darryl Hannah, ‘Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell’ starring Peter O’Toole, ’Jesus My Boy’ starring Tom Conti and the musical ‘Hit Me! The Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury’. He is a member of London’s Southbank choir which performs at the Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth Halls and recently assisted artist Gerry Judah in the creation of two six metre sculptures commissioned by St Paul’s cathedral to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. He is extremely proud to have supported the Showstoppers since their first performance in 2008.

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 July 26, 2016

John Allen, Founder of Las Casas de la Selva, May 2016 visit.

Johnny came to visit for the month of May. Here is a link to more images of his time here. Pic credits: 3t Vakil, Irving Rappaport, Andres Rua.

John Polk Allen is a systems ecologist and engineer, metallurgist, adventurer and writer. He is best known as the inventor and Director of Research of Biosphere 2, the world’s largest laboratory of global ecology, and was the founder of Synergia Ranch. Allen is a proponent of the science of biospherics. Allen has also conceived and co-founded nine other projects around the world, pioneering in sustainable co-evolutionary development. He studied anthropology and history at Northwestern, Stanford, and Oklahoma Universities, and served in the U.S. Army’s Engineering Corps as a machinist. He graduated from Colorado School of Mines and received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School.

In the early 1960s, Allen headed a special metals team at Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corporation which developed over thirty alloys to product status. Allen worked on regional development projects with David Lillienthal’s Development Resources Corporation in the U.S., Iran, and Côte d’Ivoire where he became an expert in complex regional development. In the mid-1960s Allen and a group of associates attempted a solder flux company that failed. He has led expeditions studying ecology, particularly the ecology of early civilizations: Nigeria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tibet, Turkey, India, and the Altiplano.

Allen began the first manned Biosphere Test Module experiment in September 1988, residing in the almost fully recyclable closed ecological system environment for three days and setting a world record at that time, proving that closed ecological systems would work with humans inside. As the vice-president of Biospheric Development for the project, as well as Executive Chairman, Allen was responsible for the science and engineering that created the materially closed life system, as well as the development of spin-off technologies.

Allen currently serves as Chairman of Global Ecotechnics, an international project development and management company with a Biospheric Design Division engaged in designing and preparing to build the second generation of advanced materially closed biospheric systems and ecologically enriched biomic systems; in the EcoFrontiers Division he owns and operates innovative sustainable ecological projects of which he was the co-founder and chief designer in France, Australia (5000 acre savannah regeneration project), Puerto Rico (1000 acre sustainable rainforest project) and England.

He is Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Linnean Society, and the Explorers Club.

Johnny’s invention, Biosphere 2, the world’s largest laboratory of global ecology. Biosphere 2 set a number of world records in closed life system work including degree of sealing tightness, 100% waste recycle and water recycle, and duration of human residence within a closed system (eight people for two years, early 90s).

Under the pen name Johnny Dolphin, Allen has chronicled his personal history alongside the social history of his many destinations in novels, poetry, short stories, and plays. https://www.synergeticpress.com/authors/john-allen/

  • Johnny with Lucilla at her office in Old San Juan.
  • Johnny with Santtos at his home in Guavate (affectionately known in PR as “Pica Piedras de Guavate“, Flintstone). Santtos is an activist, a multi-talented artist, and is a master stone-mason, and master gardener.
  • Johnny & Irving Rappaport, (award winning film and theatre producer in the UK). Marie Harding, also a founder of this project, and President of Tropic Ventures, came to visit for a week.
  • Andrés and 3t with Johnny at the Grupo Guayacan Award Ceremony, in Hato Rey.

Lucilla Fuller Marvel, AICP, PPL, and Buckminster Fuller Institute Board Secretary, has more than 30 years of experience in urban and social planning, housing and community development in Puerto Rico. Since establishing Taller de Planificacia’s Social (Social Planning Workshop), a consulting firm, in 1973, she has worked with community organizations, private entities, and city and state governments in the preparation of needs analysis, social sector studies, housing plans, and strategic plans. Ms. Marvel co-founded the non- profit Puerto Rico Housing Network in 1996. She is also a member of the Board for the Center for the New Economy, a recently created independent think tank in Puerto Rico and the Chana and Samuel Levis Foundation.

L-R: Corey, Denise, George, Miho, Magha, Flash, 3t, Johnny, Irving and Andres. May 2016

Pic credits: 3t Vakil, Irving Rappaport, Andres Rua.
Link to Google image album https://goo.gl/photos/wcYZHEXxiKe9muc68

Friends of Las Casas de la Selva Volunteers
 March 8, 2016

Thank You! To all our 2015 Volunteers

  • 3t, Andres, and Magha
  • Alfredo Lopez, PR
  • Bill Davidowski
  • Cho Hee Shrader and Chris Deforce, USA
  • Daniel Dioguardi and Kaen Babis, USA
  • Helen Galli, USA
  • Kamal Daghistani, USA
  • Lizbeth Velez, PR
  • Natalie Harrison, UK
  • Norman Greenhawk
  • Stratton Yatron & Matt, USA
  • Tim Dehm
  • Wanda Rodriguez, PR
  • Will Robinson

We are really thankful that individuals decide to come and volunteer their talents, time, and labor at Las Casas de la Selva. The project is a perfect place to immerse yourself into a new biome: the rainforest of Puerto Rico!

Special thanks to Tim Dehm, who stayed for three months and looked after Las Casas de la Selva for the month of October, in 2015, whilst 3t and Andres attended the annual Synergist Conference, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Education Events Forest products Friends of Las Casas de la Selva
 January 22, 2016

Walk-Talk-Tour 31st January 2016

We will always share news of a Walk-Talk Tour. Join our email list to stay informed of this and other events at Las Casas de la Selva.

WALK-TALK-TOUR -This tour will be in English.
9.30am-2.00pm, Sunday 31st January, 2016.
Cost: $20.00 per head includes lunch. (Children under 10 years free.)

Where: In the homestead, forest, and woodshop facilities of Sustainable Forestry Project,
Las Casas de la Selva, Patillas, Puerto Rico. Disabled facilities very limited.

Clothing: Please wear suitable shoes or boots for a forest walk. Open-toed sandals, or flip flops are not suitable at all on uneven paths and potentially muddy trails. Wear long trousers and a long-sleeved shirt. We reserve the right to refuse entry to the forest to anyone unsuitably dressed.

Schedule:
9.30am: Coffee and Cake, orientation
Digital presentation of the history of Las Casas de la Selva and ongoing work, and introduction to Puerto Rico Hardwoods.
11.00am: Guided Forest walk to see plantations, identify trees, understand the history of land-use, & current projects, including planting of endangered tree species.
12.30pm: Gourmet lunch with organic salad, fruit juices, tea and coffee.
1.00pm: Tour of the wood workshop, drying sheds, & projects in progress.
An opportunity to buy or order wood, or beautiful hardwood products seen at our homestead.
2.00pm: Group Photo and Finish.

BOOK NOW:
Please send an email with the following info to 3t at: wanderwoman3t@gmail.com
• How many people?
• Dietary restrictions (meat/veg) or allergies if any.
Please ask for directions if needed.

See you here! 3t and Andres
Some of the products that will be available.

Friends of Las Casas de la Selva
 November 29, 2015

Frank H. Wadsworth 100 years old Dec 2015

Congratulations to our most favorite forester. Frank we salute you highly on this most auspicious day.
Happy 100th Birthday!

  • Frank Wadsworth & Johnny Dolphin
  • Johnny Dolphin, Eliezer Nieves Rodriguez, (‎PR DNER) & Andrés Rúa
  • Frank and his wife, Isabel Colorado
  • Mycologist, botanist, Jean Lodge
  • Ornithologist, Joe M. Wunderle
  • Forester, Peter L. Weaver
  • Andrés and historian, Jorge Nieves.
  • 3t, Nick Brockaw, Director of The Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies (ITES) and Director of the Luquillo LTER Program, & Johnny Dolphin
  • Peter Weaver & 3t
Friends of Las Casas de la Selva
 July 12, 2015

July 2015 VolunTREEadventures

If you are ready for a life challenge, interested in your personal development, and feel that you have useful skills and proficiency, or perhaps would like to learn how to do something completely new and different, hold a genuine love of the natural world, and want to live with other people and experience cultural changes, and life in another biome, please contact us. We welcome you to participate in VolunTREEadventure, the project’s total system as a volunteer. Three weeks is a good way to start.

  • Alfredo Lopez Nieves
  • Cho Hee Schrader and Chris DeForce
  • Hellen Galli
  • Stratton Yatron & Matt
  • Will Robinson
We give big thanks and appreciation to everyone that comes to live with us and volunteer their time and energy; we meet as strangers and leave as friends.
Andres, 3t, and Magha.
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 December 27, 2014

Hilda Soltero – 30 years later “a dream made into reality”, December 2014

Hilda Soltero was the Secretary of The Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources in the early 1980s, and it was she that flew John Allen over the island when he was looking for a place to start a sustainable forestry project. Dr. Mark Nelson and John Rubio Druitt met with Dr. Frank Wadsworth in 1983 to discuss the possibilities. In 1983, Las Casas de la Selva was born. Today in December 2014, we shared with Hilda great discussions, stories, visions and plans, and enjoyed the company of her two sons and four grand kids. Thank you Hilda for your continuing support of tropical forestry, along with this project here in Patillas, and look forward to working with you on the mission of sustainable forestry in Puerto Rico.

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 December 10, 2014

Symposium and Exhibition of Forest Products at IITF, 6th December 2014

SEE MORE IMAGES HERE:
https://plus.google.com/photos/114745085458651133282/albums/6089798854434161681?authkey=CLytzaWvsMmIfg

L-R: Luis Soto, (Land Authority Director) Carmen Guerrero, (Secretary of DNR), Connie Carpenter, Magaly Figueroa, (USDA State & Private Forestry), Andrés Rúa, 3t Vakil, (Tropic Ventures and Nuestra Madera), Magha Garcia, (Director Pachamama Organic Farm), Sheila Ward, (Mahogany for the Future), Edgardo Gonzalez (Landscape Conservation Center).
Forestry Friends of Las Casas de la Selva Uncategorized
 May 30, 2014

75 years of Forestry!

International Institute of Tropical Forestry celebrated its 75th year anniversary and a wonderful event at the Fundacion Luis Munoz Marin (FLMM) gave everyone a chance to meet up and connect over the whole days symposium, followed by a wonderful and lively reception in the evening. 21st May 2014
See more great images of this event here. Pix by 3t and Andrés

Tropic Ventures was honored to be mentioned in the recently published 2102 IITF Accomplishments. See PDF here.

Gracious thanks to FLMM, and IITF.

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