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Date
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Times, places, topics, activities
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Hosts, speakers, contacts
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8/6
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11:15 meet at Biltmore, or 11:45 meet at Airport
13:45 AA775 to Miami, 17:25 AA981 to San Jose
18:20 Arrive San Jose, Hotel Roma Shuttle to
Hotel
Dinner and group meeting
Lodging at Apart-Hotel
Roma
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Apart-Hotel Roma
Tel. 260-0127/ 260-6339, Jardines de Roma, Heredia
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8/7
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6:30 breakfast
7:00 check-out and load bus
7:30 tour of InBioparque (9:15 coffee break)
9:30 lecture on bioprospecting
10:45 depart for Universidad Nacional (UNA)
CINPE, INISEFOR, and lunch in university cafeteria
15:00 depart for San Jose
15:45 FONAFIFO, lecture on environmental service
payments and advance payments for timber
17:00 depart for Turrialba
Dinner and group meeting
Lodging at CATIE
Guest Houses 2-102 and 6-102
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Erick Vargas
INBioparque
Tel. 244-4730
Olman Segura Bonilla
Director CINPE, UNA
Tel. 260-1600/260-1270
Eladio Chaves Salas
Director INISEFOR, UNA
Tel. 277-3851
Edgar Ortiz
FONAFIFO
Tel. 257-8475, ext. 47
Netzy, CATIE Lodging
Tel. 558-2450/558-2459
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8/8
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6:30 breakfast at CATIE
cafeteria (or guest houses)
7:00 check-out and load bus
7:15 – 17:00 Agroforestry lecture and field trials,
organic coffee farm, field trials of exotic and native species
(REFORCAT), lecture on forestry and forest management issues in
Costa Rica, lunch somewhere along the way
17:00 Depart for La Selva, dinner along the way
Lodging at La Selva
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Elias de Melo Virginio
Dept. de Agroforesteria
José Joaquín Campos Arce, Head of Forestal
and Ambiente y Desarrollo Rural Depts., Tel. 556-0401, 2318 w/in
CATIE
Francisco Mesén, Reforcat
La Selva
Tel. 766-6565
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8/9
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6:00 breakfast at La
Selva
7:30 FUNDECOR
10:45 CACSA
12:00 lunch at La Selva
13:00 – 17:30 introduction to La Selva, tour
of GIS facilities, review of projects such as HUERTOS and BOSQUES
18:00 dinner at La Selva
19:15 Carbon Dynamics (Jaguar classroom)
Lodging at La Selva
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Pedro González
Chaverri
Director de Operaciones
Pedro Rojas, CACSA
Tel. 766-6206
Joel Alvarado, Antonio Trabucco, OTS –
La Selva
Tel. 766-6565/6566/6567
Alvaro Redondo (Bosques)
Ricardo Bedoya (Huertos)
David Clark (Carbon)
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8/10
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5:30 birdwatching
6:30 breakfast
8:30 natural history walk
10:30 free time (river swimming?)
12:00 lunch
13:00 ecotourism discussion with guides
14:00 – 17:30 comparison of various forest types
at La Selva to secondary forests seen yesterday; possible hike
to TRIALS (more river swimming?)
18:00 dinner
19:00 group meeting
Lodging at La Selva
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OTS Guides
Tel. 766-6565/6566/6567
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8/11
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6 – 9:30 free
time for birdwatching, hiking (breakfast available 6-6:30);
check-out and load bus
9:45 depart for La Fortuna
12:00 lunch
13:00 – 17:00 discussion with the Association
for the Sustainable Development of the Z-13 Community, including
visit with families in community.
18:00 dinner
19:00 thermal waters, volcano watching, etc.
Lodging at La Catarata
(Z-13)
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La Catarata Lodge
Tel. 479-9522
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8/12
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6:30 breakfast
7:00 check-out and load bus
7:30 CODEFORSA
11:45 lunch
12:45 depart for Hacienda La Pacifica
14:15 Hacienda La Pacifica
16:15 depart for Palo Verde
18:00 dinner at Palo Verde
19:30 introductory talk
Lodging at Palo Verde
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Johnny Mendez
CODEFORSA
Tel. 460-1650
Alejandro Sanchez
Hacienda La Pacifica
Tel. 669-6050
Eugenio Gonzalez
OTS – Palo Verde
Tel. 661-4717
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8/13
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6:00 breakfast
7:00 hike
12:00 lunch
13:30 Tempisque river by boat
18:00 dinner
17:15 talk on tropical dry forest restoration
bus departs for western side of park
Lodging at Palo Verde
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OTS – Palo Verde
Tel. 661-4717
Gerardo Barboza
Guanacaste Conservation Area Tel. 666-5051
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8/14
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6:00 breakfast and departure
to meet bus
10:30 Finca Garza, Maderas Preciosas
Lunch, dinner, and lodging at Fundación Escuela
de Reforestación, Garza
19:30 group meeting
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Ronald Guerrero
Maderas Preciosas
Tel. 666-1629 (Liberia)
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8/15
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6:30 breakfast and beach
(lunch on your own)
15:30 depart for Monteverde, dinner along the
way
19:30 group meeting
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Monteverde
Tel. 645-5564
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8/16
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7:00 – 7:45 free time on trails
7:45 depart for SkyWalk/Trek
8:15 – 11:15 SkyWalk/Trek
12:00 lunch, check-out and load bus, gift-shopping
13:30 talks on preserve management and conservation
easements (at Preserve and/or Institute)
14:00 Santa Elena – free time (gift-shopping)
17:00 Depart for Heredia
Lodging at Apart-Hotel
Roma
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Rafael Bolaños
Manager MCFP
645-5112
Nat Scrimshaw
Director, Monteverde Institute, Tel. 645-5053
Apart-Hotel Roma
Tel. 260-0127/ 260-6339, Jardines de Roma, Heredia
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8/17
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Breakfast on your own
and free time in Heredia
10:00 Check-out and shuttle to airport
Final
group meeting at airport
12:48 AA988 to Miami
19:30 AA588 to RDU
21:41 Arrive RDU (van return to Biltmore)
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