The official Nature Conservancy announcement of the 2005-6 winter search for the Arkansas Ivory-bill(s) is now posted, if you just can't get enough of these bulletins:
http://nature.org/ivorybill/press/press2174.html
Largely the same info that is already out there, but I did find the current list of "Ivory-billed Woodpecker recovery partners" rather impressive and noteworthy (the charisma of this bird can't be denied!):
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Recovery Partners
- American Bird Conservancy
- American Forest Foundation
- Anderson Tully
- Arkansas Forestry Association
- Arkansas Forestry Commission
- Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
- Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission
- Arkansas Parks and Tourism
- Arkansas State University
- Arkansas Wildlife Federation
- Audubon Arkansas
- Audubon Mississippi
- Civic Enterprises
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Ducks Unlimited
- Earth Conservation Corps
- Environmental Defense
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
- Florida Gulf Coast University
- Georgia Department of Natural Resources
- Greenwood Plantation
- International Paper Company
- Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
- Louisiana Forestry Association
- Louisiana State University
- Mack’s Prairie Wings
- Mississippi River Trust
- Mississippi State University
- National Audubon Society
- National Council of Air and Stream Improvement
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- The Nature Conservancy
- Smithsonian Institution
- South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
- Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
- Trust for Public Land
- Turner Endangered Species Fund
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- University of Georgia
- University of Missouri
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Farm Service Agency
- U.S. Forest Service
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Geological Survey
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