James, A coqui is a small frog - an official symbol of Puerto Rico.
http://www.elboricua.com/coqui.html Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Parton" <[email protected]> To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:42 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico Neil, Do you have any pictures taken there? They would be interesting to see. What is a coqui? An insect I presume? James P. On Mar 30, 7:41 am, neil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > I spent a month and a half at El Verde, the research station in the El > Yunque National Forest. I had just finished my undegrad degree and was > assisting two Ph.D. students with their fieldwork. One student was > studying crayfish populations [literally tag & recapture] while the > other was modeling recovery from Hurricane Hugo. They had set up the > Big Grid, a large permanent plot to study forest response to > disturbance. > > We went all over the island that summer and climbed El Yunque. Many > fun times. The things I remember best were the ripe mangoes in the > forest, a stream side tree that produced a small fruit with thin, > crispy & slightly sweet flesh like a pear, but smelled like perfume, > and the large leaves of the pioneer tree species, Cecropia. And, if a > coqui got into the kitchen or your bunk room, you would almost go deaf > from its call until you released it back into the wild. > > PR and the forest is pretty cool. > > neil > > On Mar 29, 3:50 pm, James Parton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ENTS, > > > I was surprised to find a tropical rainforest in the US national > > forest system. I would have thought if we would have had one anywhere > > it would have been in Hawaii. They might have a state forest though. > > > Has anyone ever visited El Yunque in Puerto Rico? > > >http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/ > > >http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/about/index.shtml > > >http://www.solboricua.com/elyunque/ > > >http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/natural-resources/index.shtml > > >http://www.topuertorico.org/reference/yunque.shtml > > > James Parton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
