Florencio Támesis

Florencio Támesis is informally known as the 'Father of Philippine Forestry'. He was the first Filipino to be appointed as Director of the Bureau of Forestry (now known as the Forest Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources), and was the first Filipino to serve as Dean of the UP's College of Forestry (now known as the College of Forestry and Natural Resources). A hall in UP Los Banos is named after him.

He joined the Bureau of Forestry under the Department of the Interior of the American colonial government as a Ranger in July of 1909. He assumed the position of Head Ranger in 2014, assistant director by 1935, and was appointed by President Manuel L. Quezon as Director in 1937. In 1923, the government sent him as a pensionado to the US to earn a master's degree in forestry. In 1958, President Carlos Garcia awarded his family with the Presidental Medal of Merit for being an 'Outstanding Family'.

Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the New Philippines (1936, p. 626-627, Images 336-337)

Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 2165, Image 113)

Who's Who in the Philippines: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men of the Philippines, Volume II 1940-1941 (1940), by Franz J. Weissblatt (p. 184-185, Images 232-233)

Immigration to New York City, New York, United States (1957)