Ivory Bill Seminar Moves

    M. David Luneau, Jr., who took the only video ever taken of the ivory-billed woodpecker when the bird was discovered in eastern Arkansas in 2004, will be the featured speaker at a seminar hosted by the University of Arkansas at Monticello’s School of Forest Resources Oct. 10 at 7 p.m.

   Due to public interest in this event, the seminar has been moved to the Fine Arts Center. The seminar is free and open to the public.

   Luneau, an associate professor of electronics at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been actively involved in the search for the rare bird, a species thought to be extinct. Luneau led a six-person international team which searched the Pearl River in Louisiana in 2002, and he organized and led a search for the woodpecker in the White River National Wildlife Refuge in 2003.

     For more information, contact the School of Forest Resources at (870) 460-1052.   

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