- City:
- Isla de Mona, PUERTO-RICO
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Forestry and Agriculture, Landscaping and Tree Planting
- New Deal Agencies:
- Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA), Territories & Reservations
Description
Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration forestry division efforts included reforestation work on Isla de Mona during the 1930s. Dept. of the Interior report:
Mona Island—lying in the Mona passage separating Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic—some 25 square miles in extent, formerly rich in tropical timber, and virtually a deserted island, with two cave-dwelling families and three lighthouse keepers as its sole inhabitants, is now being reforested.
Source notes
"Annual Report of the Department of the Interior"; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 (pg. 336) https://books.google.com/books?id=s8MgAQAAIAAJSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 19, 2017.
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