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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: David Luneau, Scott Simon. Timecode In: 00:01:54. Timecode out: 00:46:03. Notes: Ivory-billed Woodpecker search. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: John Fitzpatrick, Scott Simon. Timecode In: 00:54:51. Timecode out: 01:31:42. Notes: Ivory-billed Woodpecker search. Equipment Notes: Spaced Omnis. Show: ELVIS (Ivory-billed Woodpecker) Log of DAT #4 Engineer: William McQuay Date: January 27, 2005 JF = John Fitzpatrick SS = Scott Simon DL = David Luneau CJ = Chris Joyce Bill = Bill McQuay Chris Joyce and Scott Simon, Bill McQuay and David [?] heading off in the canoes. Bobby in another canoe. Chit chat until 28:22 when Bill records a minute of AMBI. 28:22 - 29:32 AMBI quiet bed on the river [Good = G] 28:58 FX Wood ducks Chit chat with Bill about cameras, fresh scaling on trees, paddling which I am not logging until 47:40 when: "We're about to hit shore" + Ambi of landing to 48:16 Second boat with Chris and Scott arrives. 48:20 AMBI: Bill walking 48:32: Bill ID. So all that was spaced omnis on the 27th Chris and Bill set up two DATs, two mics: 54:49 CJ: I want to be able to get a clear chronology. Gene started the ball rolling I guess when he did the first siting. Who was the first to find out? Fitz or Scott? 55:10 Simultaneous JF: My first encounter with it was Tuesday, March 2 [2004] because I had just flown back from Minnesota on the 1st. And that Tuesday morning Tim Gallagher was in my office telling me the story. He looked bad. CJ: Gene saw it first. Who did he go to first. JF: He went to his kayak site. SS: After Gene was in the woods with Tim and Bobby, and after they had all been together [JF: That was on the 27th], he was convinced that there needs to be conservation of this place. So at the same time that Tim Gallagher was talking to Fitz, Gene called me about the same day. And he said this will make your week. I can guarantee you this will be the most interesting call you will have had all week. JF: But prior to that Gene had put his sighting on the web which had made its way up to Tim's office in the early 20s or late teens of February. Tim called Bobby and they agreed to meet . SS: I think I was probably the third person that Gene had called. He called Conservancy's board member, and another birder, then me. The day after that I talked to all those people. At the end of the day I got a message from my assistant Susan Bornay [sp. could be Mornay], John Fitzpatrick, who's a member of TNC Board and Director of the Lab at Cornell wants to talk with you tomorrow at 10am in the morning. And at 10am Fitz called and introduced himself, very gracious, asked about me, and just described he had a research project. JF: Right, we had worked very well with the Conservancy at the Pearl River in 2002, and I knew privately that we couldn't do what we needed to do which was to get in and start looking around and get some acoustic devices going. We couldn't do that without good aerial photography, TNC is a specialist in that, so I knew we wanted to work with TNC if for no other reason than just logistically, but also this is a conservation story - huge - and it's going to be eventually that we work with TNC anyway, so I said let's just first get some photography, so I started asking Scott do they have a GIS office, yes, of the White River area, yes¿..how far north SS: North to like Bayadaview. JF: Cache River¿.So you know Bayadaview. CJ: At this point you didn't know that he knew JF. No. I assumed he did not. CJ: And he knew that you did not know that he knew JF: Yes. He also, I assume had a strong sense of why I was calling. SS: I completely knew why you were calling. It was obvious. I had not had a phone call from a member of the Board of Governors before. But I also knew that this was an effort that would be lead by... (Notes truncated)
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- 23 Jun 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 22 Jun 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 23 Jun 2010 - Ben Brotman