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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: David Luneau, Scott Simon; Bob Harrison. Timecode In: 00:14:05. Timecode out: 02:00:54. Notes: Ivory-billed Woodpecker search; Hardwood swamps. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Flowing water. Timecode In: 01:50:14. Timecode out: 01:52:20. Show: ELVIS (Ivory-billed Woodpecker) Log of DAT # 3 Engineer: William McQuay Date: January 27, 2005 DL = David Luneau SS = Scott Simon Bobby = Bobby Harrison CJ = Chris Joyce Bill = Bill McQuay 00:42: Willliam McQuay: WM: Okay, it's Thursday the 27th. We're at Boom. Everything we've had so far from my recordings are spaced omni. DPA mics inside the zepplin. 01:15 We're heading down to the canoes. FX: 02:53 Clean push off from the bank and getting into the canoes 03:05 More push offs. Making adjustments in the boat. 05:20-10:19 ** AMBI: Getting situated [not much talking] and heading off in the canoes. [low motor sound] 10:20-12:20 [NG] AMBI moving along in the canoe but talking from the other canoe 12:20 - 15:15: [NG] AMBI slightly off mic conversation and description by David in Bill's boat. 15:17: CJ: [off mic in the other boat] David, how did you feel when you realized the ivory bill was not in Florida, it was not in Louisiana, it was right here in your own backyard? DL: It was a wonderful day. Those 8 hour drives to Louisiana to go looking for it are tough to get up the energy for, but when I found it was just a little over an hour from my house, it was a wonderful day. The most wonderful part was knowing we really had good confirmation that the bird still existed. And then secondary to that was the fact that it was very close to home¿ CJ: Had you been here before. DL: I grew up in Arkansas and had never even heard of Bayou DeView. Until right after the Pearl search I had never been in the White River refuge. It's not a place that, other than hunters or fishermen, the average person who even spends time in the outdoors in Arkansas doesn't spend much time in the White River refuge. There's one way in and out, basically, from the east side, It's down in the corner of the State, it's not on any major thoroughfare. So it's used mostly by hunters and fishermen. I had never been to it, but after the Pearl I was all charged up looking for ivory bills, so I decided to see what it looked like for the first time ever, and I was impressed. CJ: [on mic] Did you come before it was first sighted by Gene? 17:03 DL: Yuh, I came here right after the Pearl search in 2002, in April that year. Robert, the guy in the video, my brother-in-law and I went down to check it out. And the second cottonmouth I just about stepped on kind of changed my mind about spending a lot of time down there in the spring, so that's when I planned to come back the next winter, early 2003 and have a little search. We did a little search and the first thing we saw was a scaled tree. I had not heard of any sightings, not heard of any even lousy reports, and we went down there, got out of the car, there was a tree across the road, so we had to stop, got out and looked, and one of the guys said hey, the beaver's been working on this tree. And I started looking at it. And it was too high for a beaver, and it looked just like the scaling we had seen in the Pearl, so that was the first moment of excitement that there might be something here. [18:07] DL: Watch the tree here, we're getting a little bit of wind, blows us sideways. Get up in the woods a little bit, and there's usually not much wind. 18:27- Ambi -paddling. [Initially begins with very good paddling in the clear, then people start to chat off mic until 22:37] 22:37-23:20 FX: Bird calls - Woodpecker Chatter about enormous cypresses dated at 1500 years. SS: Historically a lot of the swamps like this had more cypress. After the cypress was cut, the tupelos woul... (Notes truncated)
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- 18 Jun 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 18 Jun 2010 - Ben Brotman