As part of its effort to save the jaguar, Osa Conservation is trying to create a contiguous "corridor" of territory on the northern shore of Golfo Dulce between the Corcovado and Piedras Blancas National Parks, to increase the amount of undisturbed forest that is available for the animals to roam.
In this place, in this time, in this small town bordered all around by woods and rural land, any animal wanting to broaden its territory needed only to cross a few two-lane, tree-loomed roads into this or another swath of undisturbed forest.
A cheat sheet provided me with a translation of the Latin inscription that had seemed so strange to me when I first entered the meadow: "We have dedicated this house to you, oh shining sister of Phoebus, and as an honor to you may the undisturbed forest always grow".
In a book published in 1998, Dr Leach and Dr Fairhead argued that large tracts of supposedly undisturbed forest were actually regrowth on areas which had been intensively cultivated until the slave trade reduced the population.In this section Growing or going?
undisturbed forest stand.
However, colonies of the invasive M. maximus were absent inside the undisturbed forest in March 2012.
The range of species was similar to that found in a large, undisturbed forest on the nearby mainland.
The vegetation structure within the avalanche path was considerably different than that of the undisturbed forest.
However, it is common for these regrowth stands to be much denser than undisturbed forest.
Undisturbed forest and surface erosion are certainly no contradiction in terms even in the absence of mass movements.
6 Ihe,Awgu I 06° 30'N,7°1752 1752 mm Typic paleudult Toeslope Natural undisturbed forest (sacred land).
