My shoveling through the Fermata archives is getting even more revealing. I came across a copy of AVITOURISM IN TEXAS – Two Studies of Birders in Texas and their Potential Support for the Proposed World Birding Center. Authored by Dr. Jon Stoll (University of Wisconsin at Green Bay) and I, this research, among other studies by us and others, set the stage for the development of the World Birding Centers.

What it also revealed? I am getting old! The date of this document is October 12, 1999!

And, as long as I am feeling ancient, I am reminded that we began the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, the first to be developed in the world, in 1993. Someone remind my dear friend and partner Madge Lindsay the next time you see her!