2002 Award Recipients:
Ty Bays - Phelps Dodge Corporation
Paul Boucher - Gila National Forest
Deborah Finch - U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
David Ogilvie - U Bar Ranch
Ralph Pope - Gila National Forest
Roland Shook - Western New Mexico University
Scott Stoleson - Rocky Mountain Research Station

Excerpt from Program:
"The Quivira Coalition is pleased to announce that its First Annual Clarence Burch Award is being given to the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Project, located on the Gila River, near Cliff, NM.

"This award honors a partnership between scientists, ranchers, private land owners, and public land managers in a project whose goal is to gain a better understanding of the complex ecological issues involving the critically endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher.

"The U Bar Ranch, home to the largest population of Southwestern Willow Flycatchers in the United States (240 breeding pairs out of a total of 450--500 for the entire subspecies), has important lessons to teach about the positive relationship between scientific research, habitat restoration, progressive ranch and farm management, and private and public land owner support."