[obol] Field notes

[Jay Withgott]

This is fabulous news, Alan!  This has indeed needed doing for a long 
time.  Tell me more -- is this being done just by you, or nationally 
by them, or by different people in different regions individually, or 
... ?  And did you convince them, or have they been looking for 
people & ways to do this nationally?    - J



At 7:03 AM -0700 11/2/06, Alan Contreras wrote:
>I am in the final stages of an agreement with National Audubon to allow the
>scanning and reissue in searchable form on CD or the web of all field notes
>from Oregon, Washington, western British Columbia and adjacent parts of
>other reporting regions published in Audubon Field Notes, American Birds and
>their successors from 1948-2001.
>
>I am not sure yet who will do the scanning and which organization will issue
>the final product, but this has needed doing for many years.  I think NAS
>will sign off pretty soon.  ABA owns a few of the recent issues but when I
>talked to them last year, they thought this was a good idea as long as it
>didn't damage current subscriptions.  Thus a five-year buffer.
>
>
>
>--
>Alan Contreras
>EUGENE, OREGON
>acontrer at mindspring.com
>
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>can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear
>material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an
>administration that can," - Richard Perle, former Reagan assistant secretary
>of defense, former Bush appointee on the Defense Policy Board.
>
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