Yes, Fuertes made great contributions. There's a bronze plaque where a sanctuary was created in his honor shortly after his untimely death - the area now often called the swan pond. Cayuga Bird Club Historian Jane Graves has the documentation of this - contemporary newspaper accounts of the plans and fund-raising for that purpose. Websites are notorious for being inaccurate, and the City of Ithaca website referring to Renwick Wildwood (the name on the concrete arch) as Fuertes Sanctuary is unsubstantiated by any historical record that our historian has found so far. Please use the correct name, not perpetuate the misnomer. If someone sends you a reference to an official renaming of Renwick as Fuertes, please let us know.
--Dave Nutter
Hi everyone,I know this issue has been discussed many times before and I know that opinions are divided. For every email I get that says we should call the woods Renwick, I get three that say we should call it Fuertes. The official website of Ithaca calls the 55 acres south of Stewart Park the "Fuertes Bird Sanctuary". It describes this both in text and on the map. Given the huge contributions that Fuertes made, we (eBird) are happy to follow the official City of Ithaca website and go with calling the 55 acres the "Fuertes Sanctuary".Christopher WoodeBird Project LeaderCornell Lab of Ornithology--Cayugabirds-L List Info:Archives:Please submit your observations to eBird!--
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