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["Bert Hale" <blhale@xxxxxxxx>]

  a.. To whom it may concern:
I have a very slow computer and it would take three weeks to say what I would 
like to 
about Mr. Wallace.

His knowledge of things from ferns to salamanders to animals is astounding.

His memory is better than an elephant.  I spent 5 years in the military (3 
tripps to 
Europe and one to Pacific). I cannot remember when nor where--yet Wallace 
can tell you the first Bird Cub meeting I attended, whose house it was at, the 
speaker and probably the type car I was driving.

All was not a bed of roses though. We spent 3 winters trapping hawks. Rain,
sleet snow or ice did not stop him. Once he set a trap on a  blind curve with 
ice on
the road and stoppedd to wait for a hit. I told him to take me home, if he 
wanted 
to get killed that was alright with me. He did total a car once.

I am not an avid birder. If it is small and brown it is a sparrow.
If it is large and black it is a buzzard. If it is not black it is a hawk --if 
large a chicken
hawk and if small a sparrow hawk.

On a few occasions i have introduced his as a speaker that is a "legend in his 
own
mind".

Don,t expect him to roll over and play dead -- Carollyn-- his wife would kill 
him.



Bert  Hale