Saturday, April 13, 2013

Sierra de las Minas field visits

I spent Monday-Wednesday of last week on a work trip to Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve (SMBR) in the eastern part of Guatemala.  The core part of SMBR is a cloud forest and is one of the best places to see quetzals in Guatemala (we saw quite a few).  After spending Monday night in cabins in the nuclear zone of the park, we then stopped to see some coffee projects, fire management areas, and a marble quarry.









Hard to tell, but this really is a quetzal

And here it is flying away














Agro-forestry system for organic coffee

Drying coffee

Preventative burning for forest fire control

Marble quarry/cutting



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