supplement those offered by the Recovery Team, appointed 

 by the USDI Fish and Wildlife Service. 



Acknowledgments 



We express our appreciation to all the reviewers, members 

 of the Technical Working Group, and the authors, who worked 

 so smoothly together to assemble this compendium of 

 knowledge of the murrelet. Behind the scenes, employees of 

 the Pacific Southwest Station's Redwood Sciences Laboratory 

 did the lion's share of the work in first assembling the data, 

 and preparing the manuscripts. Sherri Miller, Deborah Kristen, 

 Ann Buell, Tina Menges, Jennifer Weeks, Brian Cannon, 

 Robin Wachs, Kim Hollinger, Jim Dahl, Brian O'Donnell, 

 and Michelle Kamprath worked tirelessly in the "Murrelet 

 House" in downtown Arcata during 1993 to enable the authors 

 to publish their data. John Young and Beth Galleher, Pacific 

 Northwest Station, USDA Forest Service, Olympia, 

 contributed to CIS data assembly and analysis. Garland 



Mason, Mike Lennartz, and Barry Noon were very supportive 

 of the entire effort, and we are grateful to them. 



The final manuscripts were edited by technical 

 publications editors B Shimon Schwarzschild, Sandra L. 

 Young, and Laurie J. Dunn; and the layouts were designed 

 and produced by visual information specialists Kathryn 

 Stewart and Esther Kerkmann all of the Pacific Southwest 

 Research Station. 



Finally, we acknowledge the herculean effort that Linda 

 Long provided at all stages of the manuscript preparation, as 

 she directed all of us towards producing an excellent product. 



We hope that this effort will serve well the bird and the 

 people charged with its management. Most importantly we 

 dedicate this volume to the biologists who have spent so 

 many cold, lonely, but exhilarating hours in pursuit of this 

 sprightly, energetic bird, both on the ocean and in the forest, 

 where it turns into a hurtling, small, dark shadow, as it 

 enters the primeval forest in pursuit of its largely still 

 mysterious habits. 



C. John Ralph George L. Hunt, Jr. 



Technical Editors: 

 Martin G. Raphael John F. Piatt 



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USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-152. 1995. 



