From the staggeringly diverse wildlife found in and under the canopy of Monteverde, Costa Rica’s cloud forest to the quirky social and political history of the town’s founding by a group of dairy-farming, Korean-War-protesting Quakers, the small, mountain community is a research hot spot for scholars from across the disciplines.
Whether studying utopian communities or the mating rituals of the Resplendent Quetzal, people have been traveling to Monteverde for decades to conduct original, primary research.
But it’s the location’s shortcomings — specifically what it can’t offer researchers studying there — that make it particularly fascinating to UVM library associate professor Laurie Kutner.
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