Species Harvested, Wood Volume Removed, and a Rare Endemic Tree (Haptanthus) from a Honduran Lowland Forest

For at least a century, the area of tropical American lowland forests has been in decline. One reason for this decline is logging. Logging operations in Honduras are rarely associated with botanical expeditions that identify the timber and non-timber species. This article documents the common and scientific names of trees harvested from a north-coast Honduran lowland forests from 1972-1979. During these nine years more than 50 tree species were...