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Costa Rican History
In 1992, Jon led current president Oscar Arias around Dartmouth College campus (NH) for three days before the first-time president eventually gave the graduation speech for Jon's class. Who would have known they would both end up in Costa Rica together again?

 

Thank you to Brian Kohl for hosting this web site. See his great photo gallery.

2008 Publications

  • Barreras para la implementación de los planes de manejo para áreas silvestres protegidas en Costa Rica. Estudio por Gabriel Robles, Nelly Vásquez, Róger Morales, & Jon Kohl. 2008. The Nature Conservancy Technical Series.
  • “Heritage Interpretation vs. Environmental Education as an Ecotourism Conservation Strategy.” (August 2008) Chapter in Ecotourism and Conservation in the Americas: Putting Good Intentions to Work. CABI Publishing. See description.
  • Stories of the Reef.” (PDF, 6 MB, 48 pp) Photojournalistic report covering all programs that the Summit Foundation supports to protect the Mesoamerican Reef (August 2008).
  • Links of a Chain: Waves of Global Volunteers seek high impact in needy communities. Worldview Magazine (Spring 2008). Profile of Global Volunteers, magazine of the National Peace Corps Association.

Recent Projects

Proceedings-Guide on Environmental Interpretation Presented in Bolivia

30 September. Based on the four-day workshop Jon gave last September in Bolivia, workshop organizers compiled content of the workshop and fashioned it into a manual, presented on 30 September for use at a Bolivian university.


Heritage Interpretation in the Poconos, Pennsylvania & Illinois River Valley

July. Jon and Fermata, Inc. are developing an interpretive framework for all of the Poconos region and Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. Jon will also facilitate a feasibility study for a guide certification program in the Poconos. Also working on a framework for the Illinois River Valley which goes from Chicago to the Mississippi River.


Covering Conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef

April. The Summit Foundation hired Jon to study and write about its many funded projects for the conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef. After visiting Mexico and Belize, reading dozens of background documents, and conducting 45 interviews, Jon wrote a photojournalistic report about the reef, focusing on learning, engagement, and enforcement.


Jon and TNC/CATIE Writing Papers on Implementation Barriers

San José, Costa Rica. July. Jon is lead authoring a paper based on a study done by staff from The Nature Conservancy, and CATIE that investigated why so many management plans in Costa Rica go unimplemented.

 

Speaking

Lecture Tour in Cameroon and Liberia on Ecotourism Development

August, Africa. Jon earned his second Strategic Speaker Initiative Grant with the US State Department, this time to visit Africa for two weeks to discuss ecotourism development. His last grant took him to Ecuador and Bolivia last September on the topic of environmental interpretation.


Presented at 4th International Partners in Flight Conference

February, McAllen, Texas. Representing Fermata, Inc., Jon made a presentation entitled “Interpretation Engages People, Forges Relationships” as part of the Engagement in the 21st Century workshop, coordinated by Fermata president, Ted Eubanks. Partners in Flight aims to promote intercontinental migratory bird conservation.


Presented Paper at Latin American Parks Congress

October 07. Jon presented a paper at the Congress in Bariloche, Argentina on the barriers to park planning implementation. He represents the World Heritage Centre/UNESCO. He presented the same paper on the session about park planning.

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Personal News

Dion Featured in Woodworking Blog

29 May. After visiting the This Is the Place State Park in Salt Lake City, a living historical village from the time of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith and so impressing the furniture maker with his hammering skills, Dion appeared on his blog as the craftsman's youngest apprentice. See full text or see blog live.

 

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Photo of the Month

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“Rocket Wedding.” Girl watches fireworks at a friend’s wedding, Atenas, Costa Rica. November 2008

 

Other photos of the month

December 31, 2008