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Tropical Forest Regeneration
La Reserva Forest Foundation

How We Work

All of our work is dedicated to the following goals:

  • To promote tropical forest growth and increase biodiversity

  • To educate others about the crucial importance to the planet of the tropical forest environment

  • To provide research opportunities to those interested in forest regeneration and  recovery, medicinal plants and other biological sciences

  • To teach others how to participate in the restoration of tropical forests worldwide

  • To trap carbon and subsequently ease the impact of our carbon footprint

  • To restore and increase habitat, giving flora and fauna the chance to expand and migrate

  • To purchase or put under contract more acreage for reforestation than is currently being destroyed

  • Provide jobs planting trees, collecting seeds and seedling and maintaining reforested areas

The La Reserva project is based on offering cash incentives to private landowners to retain existing forest islands and to regenerate tropical forest in open pastures. Our initial steps will connect existing forest with “tree bridges” or biological corridors that permit animals an increased area for their migratory patterns.

 Funding for this project stems from the following sources:

  • The generosity and donations of institutions, corporations, governments and private individuals

  • The sale of indigenous tropical seedlings from our nursery to people who want to reforest their properties

  • Tours of the La Reserva forest

In support of La Reserva Forest Foundation’s activities in Costa Rica, we maintain an office in Hood River, Oregon.  The Oregon site functions as a “virtual” entity with volunteers from several states, including Colorado, Oregon and Washington, who help plan and manage our educational and fundraising efforts.   We have no salaried positions in the United States; rather, we depend exclusively on the commitment of volunteers to our shared belief in the importance of tropical forests to the world’s future.

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
— Mourning Dove


Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.
— Chief Seattle


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Contact:
Roberta Ward Smiley
Phone Costa Rica: 011-(506)-8856-2977
Email: info@la-reserva.org


our postal mailing address in Costa Rica and The USA is:

In Costa Rica
La Reserva Forest Foundation
Apartado Postal 63-5710
Tilarán, Guanacaste
Costa Rica

In the United States
La Reserva Forest Foundation
520 Marine Street
Boulder, Colorado  80302