Luis Fontes

Instituto Superior de Agronomia, the place where I work, has released a new video to promote its study courses. It seems to me that is difficult to add more images than what was added in this video as the video is incredibly short (about 33 seconds). However, being a forester and having done my forestry degree at Instituto Superior de Agronomia, I have to confess that I found that there is an absence of images related with forestry which makes this video a bit poor to promote the forestry course. As a positive note it is certainly a good idea to make this video and is a step forward to make it. Hopefully next time it will be a better one. Finally I am convinced that for those interested to make a degree in agriculture, forestry, landscape architecture and agro-industry will have at Instituto Superior de Agronomia a very good option to choose from.

I am just starting writing on this blog. I am not sure if I will make it often, we will see. As I am a forester I have chosen to start the first post with a photo of trees. Portugal has major Atlantic and Mediterranean influences and this picture shows a Mediterranean open forest where species like holm and cork oaks predominate. This type of forest if often managed as an agro-forestry system where forest is grown with livestock or some extensive agricultural crops. In Portugal Mediterranean area, recently, another native species has been increasing in distribution: the stone pine. This species is highly adapted to the summer droughts and is very interesting due to the high value from its pine nuts.