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To understand the extent of deforestation in the Chorotega Region of Costa Rica, Juan Pablo Arroyo-Mora and colleagues used aerial photography and remote sensing data to track changes in the forest cover area across different land use capability class (categories that indicate possible uses of forest land.) Due to the Chorotega region's accessibility, various types of forest areas were converted to cattle practices as rising international meat prices drove a cattle ranching boom in the 1960s and 1970s. By the mid 1980s, however, increased public awareness and environmental reforms, along with a decline in meat prices, engendered a natural forest regrowth, as evident by the ________