[tn-bird] MAPS station bander needed (Sullivan Co.)

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NOTE:  The following message is an announcement
that the The Institute for Bird Populations, located at
Point Reyes Station, CA, is seeking a bander to take
over Richard Lewis' MAPS station operation in 
Holston Valley, east of Bristol, near South Holston Lake
in Sullivan County, TN. 

Richard says he has operated the station for 5 years
in the woodlands he owns at his home.  He also noted
that he would be willing to provide some help to any
bander who might take over his MAPS station.

The following message was sent to me by Wes James,
a TN-Birds subscriber at Lenoir City, TN who works as
a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Regional Wildlife 
Biologist.  Wes had received the message via his son,
Kevin, who was relaying it on behalf of Dr. Mark Stanback
at Davidson College.

The forward message follows my signature.

Wallace Coffey
Owner
TN-Birds
Bristol, TN
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From:     Danielle O'Grady 
Sent:      Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:14 PM 
To:         Master Bander 
Subject:  Bander Needed 

Dear Master Bander, 

I am with The Institute for Bird Populations and
the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship
(MAPS) Program.  Our program collects 
standardized mist-netting and banding data from
over 450 banding stations across the United States
and Canada, most of them operated by
independent banders like yourself.  One of our
operators, Richard Lewis, can no longer operate
his station and we are trying to find a person to
take over the operation of his station.  He knows
of no one that can take over the operation of his
station. 

I obtained your name from a list the Bird Banding
Lab provided to The Institute for Bird Populations
to help us with this task.  The station in question
is located near Bristol in Sullivan county, TN and
your listed address is within 200 miles.  We realize
that you probably can not take over the operation 
of this station, but could you please notify your
sub-permitees, or other banders in the area, that
we are looking for a new MAPS operator? 

The MAPS Program was created in 1989 to
assess and monitor the vital
rates 
and population dynamics of North American
landbirds in order to provide critical conservation
and management information.  MAPS data are
used to describe patterns in the vital rates
(productivity and survivorship) of target species,
and relationships between these patterns and
ecological characteristics and population trends
of the target species, station-specific and
landscape-level habitat characteristics, and
spatially explicit weather variables.  Information
from these patterns and relationships are then
used to identify the causes of population
declines, formulate management actions and
conservation strategies to reverse declines and
maintain healthy populations, and evaluate the
effectiveness of management actions and
conservation strategies. 

MAPS has received the support and endorsement
of many federal agencies and conservation groups,
including the USDA Forest Service, the National
Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
the Biological Resources Division of the USGS,
the Department of Defense Legacy Management
Program, the National Audubon Society, and the
international cooperative Neotropical Migratory
Bird Conservation Initiative, "Partners in Flight."
MAPS data have been used in a number of
conservation and management planning documents,
including land management planning on DoD military
installations in the Midwest and Texas, timber sale
plans on national forests in Oregon and Washington,
and the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, a report
solicited by the United States Congress.  If you or
your sub-permitees are interested in further
information about MAPS you can visit the MAPS
portion of our web site at www.birdpop.org or
contact me. 

The commitment required for this station is
8 banding days, one approximately every ten 
days, from May 11 to August 8.  In addition
to the banding data, each operator records the
number of hours each net was operated, the
species encountered at the station, and habitat
information. 

Please let me know as soon as possible if you
know of someone that might be interested in
this station as we need continuous long term 
data for our program to be effective as possible.
If you are unable to help with the station
mentioned above, but are interested in beginning
operation of your own station we would also 
welcome your efforts there. I greatly appreciate 
any help you can provide in our efforts to keep
our stations operating.   Thank you. 

Sincerely, 

Danielle O'Grady 
MAPS Coordinator 
619-448-3460 

Main Office: 
The Institute for Bird Populations 
P.O. Box 1346 
Point Reyes Station, CA 94956-1346 
Phone: 415-663-1436 
Fax: 415-663-9482 
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Visit IBP's website at www.birdpop.org 
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