9414

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9414
• Author: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
• Title: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Annual Report.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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""t:::l it is the high-risk projects that have the years and in Arkansas' piney woodlands pledges to continue and to accelerate
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stream has been our growing portfolio tiple grants to study forest fragmenta- investments in local economic activi-
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-<: breeding bird and other affected Institute of Tropical Forests received the Foundation has published and
wildlife conservation programs as three years of funding to compare the distributed an annual directory of
integral management elements on our survival of wintering migrants in shade birding festivals. In that short time,
industrial forests. We were careful to and sun coffee plantations. The birds the number of festivals has grown
bring forest product industry represen- definitely prefer the former; hence from approximately 30 to over 120. In
tatives into the original organization ~ we have initiated a grant stream 1994, we gave a grant to the Harlingen
of Partners in Flight, ~ ,- Area Chamber of Commerce in Texas
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and they have been ~-- ::3.. marketing of to host the Rio Grande Birding
principal investors and --:',' ~ , . shade coffee. FestivaL which has been a major boon
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cooperators ever since. In 1996, we initiat- to the south Texas economy. Similarly,
Beginning with our grant ed work in North and we provided funding for the Homer,
in 1992 to the Illinois South Carolina with Alaska Chamber of Commerce for
Natural History Survey Westvaco to assess the their Kachemak Bay Shorebird
to assess the impacts of effects of corridors on Festival. We also provided funding for
logging, tract size, and bird habitat in managed Michigan's Jack Pine Viewing Tour in
"edges" on nesting suc- forests, and with the heart of Kirtland's warbler habitat.
cess of Neotropical International Paper on In 1996, we again underwrote the Rio
migrants, we have forest management on a Grande Birding Festival in Harlingen
underwritten a steady landscape scale. Finally we and provided the chamber of com-
stream of grants in and have underwritten multi- merce a grant to acquire Ramsey
around working indus- pie grants with Potlatch Nature Park as a keystone parcel for
trial forests in the U. S., and Boise Cascade in the their festival. Additional grants were
Canada, and Latin forests of the Idaho pan- made to acquire vital migration habi-
America, such as handle and west-central tat at High Island, a Texas oak motte
Manomet's work in the Idaho to address the effects north of Galveston that is a world-
Rio Bravo Forest of of forest management on famous birders' destination to observe
Belize to set guidelines avian productivity. In migrants in the spring.
for tropical forest man- 1997, these partnerships A fourth stream of funds is focused
agement. We have been culminated in the signing in the arid West on protecting and

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