The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service adopted a 

 policy of informing the public of locations of re- 

 ported ivory-bill sightings as opposed to restric- 

 tion of such information advocated by Herbert 

 Stoddard and some other knowledgeable people 

 (Letter from Director, Fish and Wildlife Service 

 to E. V. Komarek of 12 September 1967, mem- 

 orandum to Secretary of Interior from Director, 

 Fish and Wildhfe Service of 20 July 1967; Letter 

 of 1 July 1967 from John Dennis to George M. 

 Sutton). 



C p. bairdii. Establishment of refuges in areas 

 where birds are still known to exist in the most 

 important step in management, for without pre- 

 servation of habitat, fast disappearing due to lum- 

 bering, the bird cannot survive. Further effort to 

 locate existing birds is needed to pinpoint pros- 

 pective refuge areas (Lamb 1957). Plans were 

 made to erect nesting boxes as an experiment to 

 substitute for suitable dead pine stubs which were 

 disappearing. Whether this was done, and if so 

 what happened, is unrecorded (Lamb 1957). For- 

 est reservations have been established at Cuepyal 

 and Jaguane under auspices of the Academy of 

 Sciences since 1963. Each reservation is watched 

 and no further exploitation of timber is being per- 

 mitted, although much of the larger timber has 

 already been removed (Lamb 1957; Fisher et al. 

 1969). 



The ivory-billed woodpecker is protected un- 

 der the Protected Migratory Bird Treaty Act, 40 

 Stat. 755: 16 WSC 703-74, 3 July 1918; as 

 amended 3 December 1969. PL 91-135. 



AUTHORITIES 



James T. Tanner 

 Dept. of Zoology 

 University of Tennessee 

 Knoxville , Tennessee 37916 



John V. Dennis 



3 Joy Street 



Nantuckett, Massachusetts 02554 



Paul W. Sykes 



P.O. Box 2077 



Delray Beach, Florida 33444 



PREPARER'S COMMENTS 



From the evidence presented, I believe that a 

 few ivory-bills still exist in the United States, but 

 they are so nomadic that it will continue to be 



difficult to verify the occasional sighting. Never- 

 theless, every effort should be made to locate 

 nesting pairs and to take measures to preserve 

 nesting habitat in those locations. Then additional 

 feeding areas should be artificially created near 

 such locations. -J. W. Aldrich. 



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