Post 2: The Best Concert I've ever seen

I didn't go to the big concert, because when my favorite musical group or singers came to Chile, I wasn't have money, and it was really expensive. However, One day of indepence holiday, Los Bunkers, were in my neightborhood. This day I went with my best friend, his boyfriend and two friend more. We try to join in one site, but it was a lot of people, then we went into the enclosure, and we find us. The group arrived late, but when they starts all was dark, and suddenly one little red light in the depths of the stage started to blink, and then the music of " Bailando solo" was sound, All the people sang like a chorus. The people was crazy when they sing "Santiago de Chile". In a moment, the people was jumping and some people open the beer and let it drop to the others and I was with my hair by the smell of beer. Except of this, We had a great time and came to our house's very late.

Post 1: A country I would like to visit

I would like to visit Canada, I like this country a lot, because its people are very consciencious with the nature and the use of their residue and when I was a little girl I had to speak about this country. They are very extrict with the norms of the nature care, even they don't let live anyone in the country, They choose the people who live in this country very carefully (that follow the norms), it's a very peaceful country. Canada has a very cold weather in its winter, because it's in a opposite hemisfire than Chile, while they are in winter, we are in the summer. I would like to visit Toronto, Otawa, Montreal, vancouver and other cities, but the place I would like to get to know most is the Niagara parks butterfly Conservatory, that its a place in which they have over 2000 colourful tropical butterflies in a botanical park. Finally I would like to study a master or other postgrade in the University of British columbia, because they have the most beautiful faculty of forestry and their landscapes are wonderfull. 

Welcome post english 2016

Hello everybody
My name is Valeria Pinto, I'm 20 years and I study Forestry in the Universidad de Chile, I'm in the third year of my career. One of my weaknesses is the oral and written expression, I can to try in this curse improve this aspect. Isn't complicate for me understand that others says me in English or read text in English. I would like to know more thecnical vocabulary of my career for develop more this area.
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Level 4 term 2 2016

NWFP (Non-wood forest products)

   For some years come to develop the idea that a forest is not only valuable for the potential timber productivity, today we know other applications and services that give us the forest and in some cases without cutting any tree, I speak of non-wood forest products.

Although it has been discussed there is no agreement on terminology to describe NWFP, however according to FAO it has adopted the following definition:

"Non-wood forest products consist of goods of biological origin other than wood, derived from forests, other wooded land and trees outside of forests"

Therefore we can say that are extracted forest products such as berries or fungi gourmet quality, as well as resins and tannins used in the chemical industry, among other products we can provide the woods ... then show you a list of NWFP:

• essential oils

• Leaves and branches (infusions, decoration, extraction of tannins)

• tannins

• Extraction of fungi and fruits (gastronomy)

• oleoresin (turpentine, adhesives, waxes), etc...

Depending on the species and the ecosystem in which is embedded the forest there are several NWFP in general the marketing of these products, except the chemical industry, it is quite casual for that is also difficult to quantify, because there is a lot of plants and animals that can be presented as NWFP resources.

one place I would like to visit

When I heard about the Fray Jorge nacional park, I wanted to visit, but I don't have enought money for travel. Fray jorge is a very special place because is a relict (or fossil) forest, which it's a exemplary of the Valdivia forest (evergreen forest), but in the north of chile, located in the Coquimbo region in the middle of  semiarid zone. All this is possible, because a dense fog called "camanchaca" rises up to the mountain from the sea and becomes trapped in the forest, it thus enables this place survive. This park protect some species of fauna like the humboldt penguin(Spheniscus humboldti), Culpeo Fox (Lycalopex culpaeus) and the chungungo(Lontra felina) and other species of flora like the tree "olivillo" (Aextoxicon punctatum) and creepers (epiphytic plants) like "medallita" (Sarmienta scandens) and "copihue" (Lapageria rosea).

  This place was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO and administered by CONAF. Entry is $2.500(CLP) for the adults and $1.300(CLP) for the children and youth.

A career-releated website

         One website releated with my career is www.infor.cl of the "Instituto Forestal", this have a lot of information about the forestry industry and other releated areas, It have stadisctics, inventory of forestry ecosistems, forestry library and proyects of the institution. They have a variety of investigation areas like the inventory and monitoring of the forestry ecosistems, economic and political forestry, silviculture and forestry management of native and exotic ecosistem, products and tecnology of wood. I like this site, because it's very helpful with their investigations and I have to read about my career, for homework also and for study. The institution belong to the ministery of agriculture of Chile and their information is recognized. I don't use this site always because they have a lot information, if I need numbers or percentage, I use this page. furthermore they have news and events about the forestry industry and the management of the native forestry, they have a journal "cifor"and they have volumes about theirs investigation which there a very interesting topics and finaly they have links of interest.