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Article: Message in the plaza: landscape, landscaping, and forest discourse in Honduras.
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- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras, December 2001. A city bus--retired from its former life as a school bus in Minnesota--crawls along with the traffic, pumping out diesel exhaust. Under the driver's side window is a bumper sticker whose message, like the other messages in this landscape, offers some insight into the contemporary thought and culture of Honduras. Its message is also, I believe, pertinent to a consideration of forest issues and perception in Honduras: "We'd better plant some trees or we're screwed."
A repeat-photography study I conducted in Honduras examined landscape change in a portion of the country between 1957 and 2001 (Bass 2003; see Figure 1). The ...