Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest

Figure 1.1. (top) Group photograph of the residents of Monteverde at the last Quaker Meeting in 1957 in the old
squatter house that they made into a meeting house and school. The expanded dairy plant now covers this site.
Photograph by John Campbell. Figure 1.2. (bottom) Wilford "Wolf Guindon, one of the original Quaker settlers,
describes the biota he has worked to protect as a guard for the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. He practiced
dairy farming when the group first arrived in the early 1950s, but later became an ardent advocate and spokes-
person for conservation of the preserve. Photograph by Gregory Dimijian.