Tomás Monfil

Tomás Monfil (died 2009) was a Chilean forester, and one of the principal persons behind the reforestation program of CONAF in Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region in the 1960s. Monfil contributed to the reforestation of about 8000 ha in Aysen where 2800000 ha forest had previously been burned during the colonization in the early 20th century. Later he served as regional director of CONAF in Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region in the 1970s before being appointed chief executive of CONAF's Complejo Forestal y Maderero Panguipulli that managed more than 300000 ha in the zones of Panguipulli and Neltume and had more than two thousand employees.