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Clarendon
Big Woods Birding Festival May 4;
Bring Your Own Binoculars!
April
16, 2002
The City of
Clarendon, one of the community partners in the
Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial in Arkansas, will hold
a festival for nature-lovers Sat., May 4.
The May 4 Big Woods Birding Festival will include programs
in the Clarendon Visitors Center, 204 Madison, from
10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. on wildlife and plants of the area.
Guided tours for birdwatching, butterfly-watching,
and botany study will go on throughout the day, with
the birdwatching tour beginning at 6:50 a.m. All tours
will begin and end at the Visitors Center.
The festival also will include cake walks, a pancake
breakfast, and other activities.
The city will hold a similar festival, focusing on
bird life in the area at the time of the Louisiana Purchase,
in May 2003.
The following agencies and businesses are sponsors
of the Big Woods Birding Festival: Arkansas Department
of Parks and Tourism, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission,
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, Audubon Arkansas,
Audubon Society of Central Arkansas, Clarendon Chamber
of Commerce, Entergy, General Motors Corporation, The
Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Visions for Clarendon, Wild Birds Unlimited, and the
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.
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