Our Faculty has historically played a leadership role in the training of professionals articulated through the intense research in natural resources conservation, natural forests, forest plantations, and timber products processing in Chile. Such research scope is now widely diversified around topics related to forest management and ecosystems services, forest restoration, land change and water use, wood products, biodiversity, global and climate change, forest fires, forest genetics and biotechnology, forest operations, use of geographic information systems.
In addition to the undergraduate programs in Forestry and Natural Resource Conservation, we are proud to offer two graduate programs: a Master of Science in Forests and Environment and PhD in Forest Ecosystems and Natural Resources.
Our Faculty is an international player in Forestry Sciences and Natural Resource Management with a leadership position through our teaching programs, peer-reviewed scientific publications and reports, national and international projects, and the worldwide recognition granted to our academics and researchers.
We invite you to be part of our Faculty and to deep your learning journey. We have 4,000 hectares (9,900 acres) of forestlands, covering a great diversity of native tree species (old growth temperate rain forests), exotic forest plantations (radiata pine, eucalypts, others), and an arboretum where you will find a wide collection of the most varied species. Our forests are a huge reservoir of Carbon and biodiversity: home of unique endemic animals of great socioecological value, such as the Black Snail, Chucao tapaculos, Mountain lion, Chilean cat, the Pudu deer and the Darwin´s frog, all embedded in the complex sociocultural landscape of Southern Chile.