The Revegetation of the McClean Monument

Abstract

The McClean Monument is the name given by the Botany Group of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club to the quarry on the Lady Young Road from which material was taken for widening the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in the years 1976-1979. When the proposal was first put forward for the site to be used as a quarry, there was great public opposition to it, and after months of debate and controversy, permission for the excavation was given by the then Minister of Works, Mr. Hector McClean, hence the name.