Linton Park Mountain Project

FOREST RESTORATION ON JAMAICA:
A COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECT
TO RE-ESTABLISH ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES
IN A DEGRADED COCKPIT OF
COCKPIT COUNTRY AT
LINTON PARK MOUNTAIN

IKONOS image, courtesy GeoEye/Forestry Department.
(Click here for an interactive panorama of the LPM site)

Windsor Research Centre (WRC) is pleased to have received a grant from the National Forest Programme Facility to support the community participation in our Forest Restoration Project at Linton Park Mountain. The main purpose of the grant was to involve the local community, Duanvale, in a research programme to determine the feasibility of creating a sustainable, native forest through their participation in the design and implementation of its set-up.

Informal Community Meetings	We held a series of 5 Informal Community Meetings (see report) to mobilise interest: These were held in the street, outside strategically located business places, and were well-attended by local community members.
Formal Meetings & Workshops	We held a Formal Community Workshop (see movie) at the Duanvale Community Centre (see report) and an Experts Workshop (see report) to determine species' composition and planting modalities.
Field Workshops	Three planting workshops were held to demonstrate techniques for lining out and planting (see movie) (see report).
School Workshop	A single workshop was held for Duanvale Primary School (see movie).

Experimental Design ('random block')	Each Block has 25 Plots. Green = grass left in place Brown = grass removed manually Yellow = herbicide treatment Each Plot has 36 seedlings at 1 metre spacing	Species (to date): Bastard Cedar Breadnut Cecropia ('Trumpet') Mahoe Spanish Elm

FOREST RESTORATION ON JAMAICA:A COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTTO RE-ESTABLISH ECOLOGICAL PROCESSESIN A DEGRADED COCKPIT OFCOCKPIT COUNTRY ATLINTON PARK MOUNTAIN

FOREST RESTORATION ON JAMAICA:
A COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECT
TO RE-ESTABLISH ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES
IN A DEGRADED COCKPIT OF
COCKPIT COUNTRY AT
LINTON PARK MOUNTAIN