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Harker, James
1975
Journal
Panama - Cerro Campana
Motel Su-Lim, 740 m. elev, Cerro Campana,
Panama Province, Panama
8 August has some nice stands of virgin
forest and other tracts of second growth which
has been left alone for at least 75 years, the
Pan-American highway traverses populated
lowlands covered by agricultural
tracts, second growth, and thickets, with almost
no original forest. Useful descriptive
notes see in a pamphlet called "Finding Birds
in Panama" by Ernest Edwards and Horace Loftis
sponsored by the Panama Audubon Society, c.1971, which
also has excellent detailed accounts of
various side roads leading into the more
remote areas. Most of Cerro Campana has
been cleared for cattle grazing, lumber,
or agriculture, and the only stands of
mature forest lie in the steepest canyons,
cliffs, or other inaccessible areas. We
examined forested areas along the road
above the Motel Su-Lim including
the vicinity of a large water tank along
a small brook which crosses the road (840 m.)
but no salamanders were found. I saw
one brownish frog ~ 4cm SVL but could not capture it at the above locality
in addition to several tadpoles in the small