THE AUTHOR 



NEDAVIA BETHLAHMY is Principal Forest Hydrologist for 

 the Streamflow Regulation research work unit of the Intermountain 

 Forest and Range Experiment Station in Moscow, Idaho. He began 

 his career with the Forest Service in California in 1940, and since 

 that time has worked and conducted experiments in watershed man- 

 agement research in the Northeastern, Southwestern, Pacific North- 

 west and Intermoimtain Regions. During the years 1966-1968, he 

 was assigned to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United 

 Nations to help the Republic of China solve the watershed manage- 

 ment problems of Taiwan. He is a Graduate Forester from Penn 

 State, and holds M. F. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and Cornell 

 Universities. 



