Jim Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of the Carpenter Nature Center in = Hastings, will be giving a talk entitled "In Search of the Ivory-billed = Woodpecker" at the Northland Arboretum in Brainerd at 7pm on Thursday, = September 22. This program is sponsored by the Brainerd Lakes Area = Audubon Society and is free and open to the public. Jim will present an = eye-witness account of his participation in the search for the Ivory-billed= last winter and his own observation of this bird. For more information, = contact Pam Perry, BLAAS Program Chair, at 218/828-4718.

