This entire week is being celebrated on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with the First Annual Yucatan Bird Festival. The idea, supported by Governor Patricio Patron Laviada, Secretary of Tourism, Carolina Cardenas, and Mayor Ana Rosa Payan Cevera, is to promote interest in conservation and ecotourism throughout Yucatan with art exhibits, workshops, conferences, field trips, and competitions. USGS Patuxent biologist Chandler Robbins will give a paper on land use strategies to benefit bird populations, and assist with establishing a bird monitoring program.

Contact: Chandler S. Robbins 301-497-5641

From 4-7 November 2002, Daniel Twedt participated in a Forest Management Workshop in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This workshop, jointly sponsored by USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, provided education, discussion, and field exercises for wildlife managers and foresters. Dr. Twedt's presentation was titled, Remodeling Bottomland Forests for Birds. This presentation focused on how birds respond to uneven aged timber management that is prescribed to improve wildlife habitat.

Contact: Dan Twedt 601-629-6605

HiLites Contact: B.H. Powell, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, 301-497-5782

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