ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



This project could not have been carried out without the help of numerous people. Most 

 importantly, I thank Kent H. Redford and John G. Robinson for suggesting that a study of Maya 

 subsistence hunters in Quintana Roo, Mexico, would be a wonderful opportunity to mesh my interests 

 in indigenous peoples and the natural history of Neotropical birds and mammals. For their suggestions 

 during the planning stage and for helping me to interpret the data, I would like to thank the members of 

 my committee: Allan F. Bums, John F. Eisenberg, Kent H. Redford (Chairman), Allyn MacLean 

 Stearman, and Melvin E. Sunquist. Allyn MacLean Stearman and Allan F. Bums were especially 

 instrumental in helping me see the human side of this project and ir appreciating the role indigenous 

 people play in natural resource use and management. I thank John Smallwood and Jaime E. Jimenez 

 for their guidance on statistical analyses and computer programming. 



Funding for this project was provided by World Wildlife Fund-U.S. (Project 6470), World 

 Nature Association, Organization of American States. Roger and Bemita Jorgenson (my parents), 

 Centro de Investigaciones de Quintana Roo, and Program for Studies in Tropical Conservation/Tropical 

 Conservation and Development Program (University of Florida). The Secretaria de DesarroUo Urbano 

 y Ecologia kindly granted a research permit to work in Mexico (# 301878, dated 17 October 1990). 



My host agency in Mexico was the Centro de Investigaciones de Quintana Roo (CIQRO). I 

 thank Eduardo Suarez Morales, CIQRO Director, and his staff for their patience and assistance, 

 especially with respect to purchasing a truck, providing several field assistants, obtaining research 

 permits, coordinating the identification of scientific specimens, and organizing an airplane 

 reconnaissance flight over the study area. I especially thank Alvaro del Campo Parra Lara, Jesus 

 Pahna Gutierrez, Laura Perez del Valle-Cunille, Enrique Montes de Oca, Julio Rafael Castillo Espadas, 

 Teresa Jimenez A., Julio Juarez G., Miguel A. Marmolejo, Mariano Ceballos. and Daniel Navarro L., 



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