Today, we celebrate 250 years of the Main Ridge Forest Reserve. 13 April 1776 marked the end of an eleven-year battle to preserve Tobago’s thickly forested spine, thus cementing in history one of the earliest acts of the ecologically sensible. The deed was done not for the glorious biodiversity within — but for the ridge’s role as a watershed. While it was valued for the water it provided to the surrounding estates, we now understand the contribution of Main Ridge to far exce