come to Arkansas because of this news.

      Maps and specific driving directions from Brinkley AR, to White River National Wildlife Refuge at St. Charles, Hickson Lake, and

The Big Woods Conservation Partnership, which is led by The Nature Conservancy, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and others,  decided to create interpretive areas at the Cache River and White River national wildlife refuges and to post directions to these interpretive areas in a direct effort to minimize impact at the site where the ivory-billed woodpecker has been spotted.

      The Partnership felt as though interested people would come to Arkansas with or without specified visitation areas, and the Partnership felt creating designated interpretive areas near the area where the ivory-bill has been spotted would accommodate the needs and desires of those who will

opened in 1982, it has worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission as well as private citizens, corporations, and foundations, to bring into conservation management more than 120,000 acres in the Arkansas delta.

— Hillary Wakefield 

with bottomland hardwoods,    

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the habitat of the ivory-billed woodpecker.

      The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that preserves plants, animals and natural communities representing the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. Since The Conservancy’s Arkansas office

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