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BIOLOGY /SPECIES <br />Whooping Crane <br />DR. JIM LEWIS <br />Dr. Jim Lewis is a retired Fish and Wildlife Biologist who resides in Albuquerque, New <br />Mexico. Upon his retirement in 1997, Dr. Lewis was an Endangered Species Biologist with <br />the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Regional Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. Lewis <br />received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Michigan and Michigan State <br />University, respectively, and completed his doctoral dissertation on sandhill cranes at <br />Oklahoma State University. Dr. Lewis held the position of U.S. Whooping Crane <br />Coordinator and Recovery Team Leader from 1984 to 1997. He was co- chairman of the <br />first International Whooping Crane Recovery Team formed in 1995. He was instrumental <br />in developing international agreements with Canada and 13 U.S. states to protect <br />whooping cranes in migration and on the wintering grounds, worked closely with the Grays <br />Lake and Florida reintroduction projects, and served as the Service's representative to the <br />Avian Power Line Interaction Committee. He has authored or co- authored numerous book <br />chapters and more than 70 published scientific articles, and served as editor and co- <br />chairperson of the first four Proceedings of the North American Crane Workshop. Dr. <br />Lewis currently resides at 7712 Midge NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109 505 - 821 - 3823). <br />(excerpted from Proceedings of the Seventh North American Crane Workshop, p. vi) <br />DR. RODERICK C. DREWIEN tA <br />Dr. Drewien is presently a Research Biologist with the Hornocker Wildlife Institute, 2023 <br />Stadium Drive, Suite 1A, Bozeman, Montana 59715. Dr. Drewien received his B.S. in <br />Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University, M.S. in Wildlife Science from South <br />Dakota State University, and Ph.D. in Wildlife Science from the University of Idaho. He <br />has studied migratory birds throughout western North America since 1963, and worked <br />with sandhill cranes and whooping cranes in the Rocky Mountain region and elsewhere <br />since 1969 and 1975, respectively. He has published 36 scientific papers on sandhill and <br />whooping cranes. He supervised the whooping crane cross - foster experiment in the Rocky <br />Mountains, 1975 -94, and was an advisor and member of the U.S. Whooping Crane <br />Recovery Team for 18 years, 1976 -94. He was the U.S. representative for 12 years (1977- <br />88) working with the Canadian Wildlife Service to develop and implement a capture, <br />banding, and marking program for wild, juvenile whooping cranes in Wood Buffalo <br />National Park. He has been involved in the capture and banding of over 200 whooping <br />cranes in Canada and the U.S., and has captured and banded over 1,700 sandhill cranes <br />in the Rocky Mountains. <br />13 <br />