When tropical storm jeanne hit haiti and the dominican republic in september, 2004, there was over 20 inches of rainfall in 24 hours-more than a third of the rain that typically falls during an entire year. forestry practices in these two tropical countries have been quite different, with most of haiti's forests having been removed by 1990, and the rapidly growing population becoming increasingly dependent on subsistence farming in mountainous regions of the island. tropical storm jeanne created a national disaster for haiti with over 3000 lives lost, but the dominican republic experienced very short-lived effects. one immediate consequence of haiti's forestry practices after tropical storm jeanne was