Protecting Watershed Areas: Case of the Panama Canal

Protecting Watershed Areas: Case of the Panama Canal provides foresters, hydrologists, and park managers with a case study of the Panama Canal watershed area to help you make the most of your efforts in protecting ecological areas. Through this unique book, you will discover how the Carter-Torrijos treaty that will return the Panama Canal to the Republic of Panama on December 31, 1999 will affect the 2.6 million inhabitants of that area as well as this complex ecosystem. This valuable book includes a focus on both technical and biological observations in the field as well as library research to help you make the most of book learning and field research in your endeavors to protect forest reserves and other protected areas.

Mark S. Ashton, PhD, ME, is Associate Professor of Silviculture, and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in New Haven, Connecticut. Jennifer L. O'Hara, MFS, BA, is a doctoral candidate at Yale University in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut. Robert D. Hauff, MF, BA, is a research ecologist in Micronesia for the USDA Forest Service Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.