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Hawken,
James
1975
Journal
Panama - Boquete area
Hotel Fundadores, 1100m. elev., Boquete, Chiriquí
Province, Panama
9 August 7:00 AM Arrived here last night with Jim Lynch
after driving essentially straight from Cerro
Campana including a stop at the Agriculture
Ministry in Santiago to try to procure proper
exportation permits (the officials seemed helpful
and instructed us to pick them up in a week).
The Pan-American highway or traveled
yesterday traversed mostly lowlands which have
been essentially cleared for agriculture, habitation, lumber; essentially
most of the original forest remains except in
isolated clumps in deep drainages or slopes
above fields cleared on a few upper mountain
slopes above lower cleared areas.
10 August 7:00 AM Jim Lynch and I left yesterday morning at
~8:45 AM to walk the southern flank of Volcán
de Chiriquí W of Boquete using U.S. Army map
Service maps Sheet 3742 III, series E762,
labelled Boquete, and Sheet 3642 II, series E762,
labelled El Hato Del Volcán; the former map field
corrected in 1960, the latter in 1965. Driving N on
the main road through Boquete we turned left (West)
just after passing the town canal and
continued on this road towards and past the