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<DIV>A Sierra Club contact from the DeKalb area has asked me for advice about
how to handle doing a Christmas Count in an area that also is actively hunted.
They know there are Pileated Woodpeckers present at this IDNR site which would
be a new species for their count circle, but no one wants to bird the area
because hunters also are actively using the area.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Has anyone out there figured out a way to avoid the conflict? How did
you set it up? Did you ask for a one-day hunting ban with the IDNR or US Fish
& Wildlife Service? Or perhaps by asking the hunters' clubs in the area to
avoid the site on that day?</DIV>
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<DIV>Any advice you can offer would be appreciated.</DIV>
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<DIV>THANKS!</DIV>
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<DIV>Christine Williamson</DIV>
<DIV>Chicago/Cook</DIV>
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