While America celebrated with fireworks and BBQs, I headed up
to the Peten department in northern Guatemala for site visits. The morning of the 4th we visited the
Mayan ruins of Yaxhá, in the Yaxhá-Nakúm-Naranjo National Park, where we have
been supporting community tourism projects.
We got a nice long visit from a group of howler monkeys while on top of
one of the pyramids.
The following day we visited some of the sites associated with
the forestry concession programs in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. The basis of the forestry concession program
is sustainable timber (and non-timber) management in the multiple-use zone of
the park. In this case, the cooperative
that we visited was in the process of preparing their certified (under the
Forest Stewardship Council) mahogany harvest for export to the U.S.
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