ibwo license plate
Arkansas residents can get a license plate with the IBWO. The extra $35 you pay for the special plate goes to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and is used for conservation scholarships and conservation education. Here is my first one (I have several now).
Old News
In March 2005 we did a "re-enactment" where we went back out to the site of the video with IBWO and PIWO models with movable wings and shot video with the same camera at the same distance, equally out of focus. There is a clip of the re-enactment on the DVD, but here is a still image from the video - can you tell which is the IBWO model?
Old growth and tall trees - Standing under 375'+ tall old-growth redwood trees is an indescribable experience. Only 4% of the old growth redwoods remain in the American west, but that's about 4% more than what remains of the old growth southern bottomland hardwood forests.
I put a few pictures here to give you an idea of what old growth looks like. Many thanks to Michael Taylor for the 2007 guided tour of some of the world's tallest trees!
Sad News - Larry Chandler passed away on March 16, 2007, apparently from pneumonia complications. Larry was a generous man and a great artist and will be missed by friends and family.
Two of his works are shown elsewhere on this page: the conservation stamp and the Arkansas IBWO license plate. In addition, he painted the 2005 Arkansas duck stamp that also has an Ivory-bill on it.
Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.
Click here (4.9MB PDF file) for a link to an interesting paper about possible beneficial relationships between woodpecker and oak trees in east Texas (by Bill Holliday).
Camera comparison - I wrote an article comparing five different models of remote cameras for Birding magazine, which was published in the March/April 2007 edition. The article compares cost, features, sensitivity (to birds), response times, ease of use, ease of service, battery types, and more. Check out the American Birding Association web site for information on becoming an ABA member or for getting copies of their magazine.
NOVA - NOVA ScienceNow featured the rediscovery of the IBWO as one of the top 8 science stories of 2005 on January 10, 2006. Watch it here.