Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused lasting damage to Puerto Rico's natural ecosystems, especially El Yunque National Rainforest. Intervention is required to expedite recovery and maintain crucial areas such as riparian corridors. The current protocols used by the USFS to assess these areas do not explicitly outline a procedure for involving local communities. We generated a guide containing methods to supplement existing assessment protocols with community input and implemented it within El Yunque National Forest to carry out a restoration project.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Wood, Stephen Anthony
• Schmitt, Matthew Tyler
• King, Jason Patrick
• DeMaio, Jared Thomas

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043019-135126

Keyword

• Technology and Environment

Advisor

• Williams, Nicholas E.

Year

• 2019

Center

• San Juan, Puerto Rico Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• USFS

Date created

• 2019-04-30

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-02-03