| Matthew Brewer (U. of FL) and Joe Dowling (U of FL) worked with the Program's field coordinator Nacho Escorriolas and Fundacion Vida in the design of a champion tree program for Costa Rica. All students participated in an effort to field test the methodology. |
Matthew Brewer and Program Field Coordinator Ignacio "Nacho" Escoriolas present a methodology for measuring champion trees to a group of interested governmental and non-governmental organizations at the Costa Rica Institute for Biodiversity. |
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Costa Rica Program students offer an alternative methodology, a group tree hug, around an endemic mountain cypress at the private cloud forest reserve of Jorge Serrano. Students spent the night at the Tico owned and operated ecotourism lodge in the cloud forests of Cerro de la muerte ("hill of the dead") |
