Offers guided field trips to area birding places in three states up and down the Mississippi R., including Beaver Creek Valley State Park in Houston Co., Reno dike and quarry in Houston Co., Great R. Bluffs in Winona Co., Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa, and Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin. Habitats include blufflands, grasslands, bottomland hardwood forests, and backwaters-some accessed by canoe. Birding by bike. Birds should include warblers, raptors, sparrows and waterfowl. Seminars, birders' picnic, social hour, art gallery.
Featured speaker:George Fenwick of the American Bird Conservancy. Contacts: <http://couleeaudubon.org/festival104.html>; <[email protected]>; U.S. postal service: Upper Mississippi River Campaign, 1707 Main St., Suite 105, LaCrosse, WI 54601; Phone 1-608-784-2992; Fax: 1-608-782-0296. Fred Lesher, LaCrosse __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

