. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas. . MONTANE & ELFIN I iAIN FOREST LITTORAL WOODLAND â¢â¢. DRY SCRUB WOODLAND D CULTIVATED Figure Vegetation cover in Dominica in Pre-Arawak times. 1945 and 1985. â Evans I 19861 Grenada dominated by mountain peaks, steep ridges and deep, narrow valleys. The island's principal peak. Mount St Catherine (833 m). is located in the northern half of the ridge that runs north-south through the centre of the island. The slopes are comparatively gentle in the east where there are some fairly extensive coastal plains. The western sid
. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas. . MONTANE & ELFIN I iAIN FOREST LITTORAL WOODLAND â¢â¢. DRY SCRUB WOODLAND D CULTIVATED Figure Vegetation cover in Dominica in Pre-Arawak times. 1945 and 1985. â Evans I 19861 Grenada dominated by mountain peaks, steep ridges and deep, narrow valleys. The island's principal peak. Mount St Catherine (833 m). is located in the northern half of the ridge that runs north-south through the centre of the island. The slopes are comparatively gentle in the east where there are some fairly extensive coastal plains. The western side is more rugged. There are low hills in the north-east and south-west. June to December is the wetter season, with some risk of hur- ricanes. On the coast rainfall is about 1500 mm. in the moun- tains it may reach 5000 mm. Average annual temperature at sea level is about 30°C (CCA/IRF. 1991c). The Carib Indians living on the island at the time of French occupation in 1650 were more or less completely exterminated by 1654. The island was taken over by the British in 1762. won back by the French in 1779. returned to Britain in 1783 and then became an independent nation within the Commonwealth in 1974. The population is mostly of African origin, descendants of the slaves brought in to tend the sugar cane. There are six major settlements located in the coastal area of the island, the largest is the capital. St George's. Average population density is 294 people per sq. km. In the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, sugar cane was the main crop on the island. Agriculture is still the single most important sector of Grenada's economy. Nowadays, the principal export crops are cocoa, bananas, nutmeg and mace. Forest Resources and Management Figure shows the distribution of the vegetation on Grenada as indicated by Beard in 1949. The most recent map of actual vegetation cover was compiled from interpretation of aerial pho- tographs taken in 1982 (Eschweiler, 1982). A
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