Saving Central America's disappearing conifers. (includes related article) From: American Forests | Date: March 1, 1989| Author: Kaufman, Wallace | COPYRIGHT 1989 American Forests. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

We have finally begun to study these richly promising trees at the very moment many approach extinction. The "last-stand" rescue effort is gaining momentum and support.

Mayans of Guatemala believe that the last great chief to fall to the swords and Aztec troops of Conquistador Pedro Alvarado was Tecun Uman. In 1953, 425 years later, Dr. Fritz Schwerdtfeger, studying Guatemala's forest insects, found a tree with a stature that could carry Tecun Uman's name. It is a pine t...

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