Lucila Rojas remembers the days when she and her neighbors risked their lives to cook a hot meal over a wood-burning stove. “We had to steal firewood, because there was no longer any left in the places where you could freely look,” she said. “Sometimes we were chased (by landowners), even by gunshots. I was fed up. I didn’t want any more war.” A 1995 Central Bank report noted that Chile’s remaining old growth forests could disappear within 30 years if the current deforestation rate continues. Image:Villaseca 2008 2.jpg Environmentalist Serrano, however, doesn’t find that surprising.