Ivory-billed Woodpecker Project

Fort Collins Audubon Society Seeks Your Help!

Earlier this year, Cornell University researchers announced in Science that at least one IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER persists in the Big Woods swamp of Arkansas. The Nature Conservancy and the US Government have responded by raising money for land acquisition to protect the threatened habitat of this magnificent bird, thought to have gone extinct more than half a century ago. Already, 18,000 acres have been protected in a 550,000 acre area. The Nature Conservancy-led effort seeks to protect an additional 200,000 acres over the next 10 years. FCAS would like to join this effort, and plans are being developed to raise money for land protection and to send a delegation in January 2006 to try to see the woodpecker(s) via a managed tour approved by the Nature Conservancy and other Arkansas conservation organizations. If you are interested in supporting or participating, please contact Nick Komar, quetzal65@comcast.net, 970-416-7527. Tax-deductible donations may be sent online at www.fortnet.org/Audubon/donate.htm or mailed to FCAS, PO. Box 271968, Fort Collins CO 80527-1968, check payable to “Fort Collins Audubon Society” Memo: Woodpecker Project.