By Roberta Ward Smiley | CEO and founder
Today a second notice arrived to remind me that a progress report was due and I’m very sorry for leaving you all hanging but I’ve been waiting for some vital information concerning this project so that I could pass it on to you.
I posted this project initially in mid 2012…a lot of time has passed since then and consequently the majority of the six landowners who wanted to participate have changed plans for their land or even passed away. Aware of this, Matt Lee, the president of LRFF, and I met a couple of weeks ago and decided that we could revise the “Reforesting Guatuso” project and include only Jeffrey Lacayo’s property at the Maleku Palenque Sol. I told Matt it was small enough that we might have enough funds to implement it with the donations we have received to day and the roll over of funds from another project we want to deactivate for the same reason.
That’s where we stand currently with this project, waiting for the land measurement to be confirmed by Jeffrey. I talked to him and he wants to go on but things move real slowly in Costa Rica. When I get the land area to be planted I can revise the budget for the area, amount of trees, fencing, labor, etc. You will see the new project and will be the first to know when we can begin the nursery and start planting.
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