ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS FATE must have tested me last Friday, April 21, for I found myself physically located in a piece of earth where two public personalities I am not fond of were scheduled to appear. On that day, I was at UP Los Baños, for the celebration of the 107th founding anniversary and alumni homecoming of my alma mater, the UPLB College of Forestry and Natural Resources (UPLB-CFNR) as one of its coral jubilarians, having obtained my BS Forestry degree in 1982. Environment Secretary Gina Lopez was supposed to be the guest speaker. As part of the celebration, a seminar on responsible mining was also held in the morning, giving particular emphasis on forestry’s contribution to the...
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