| Delaware
Water Gap /Ivory-billed woodpecker |
Dale
Luthringer |
| May
14, 2007 05:20 PDT |
ENTS,
I just spent a weekend with Bill Sweeney, environmental
education
specialist supervisor at Jacobsburg Environmental Education
Center
located near the Poconos on the eastern side of the state. We
had an
excellent time documenting new old growth sites and finding a
new 160ft
class white pine in the Delaware Water Gap National Park.
Bill is one of the few state employees who actually knows old
growth
when he sees it. He has a keen eye for sites that the untrained
eye
could easily pass up, and is my main state contact for old
growth in
Eastern PA.
On another note, he showed me an article he wrote on the
ivory-billed
woodpecker which was recently published in the March/April 2007
Birding
Magazine. It was a very good read. I then remembered there being
a
good show of interest in a past thread concerning ivory-billed
woodpeckers, and thought some of you might be interested in
hearing his
take from his actual siting years before the recent hype of a
"new"
discovery of ivory-bills.
Dale
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