Re: Update on the CBC count report

[Bpworthing@aol.com]

Harry LeGrand makes a series of very cogent points on the latest National 
Audubon plan togut the CBC report volume, whatever they may be calling it 
this year. I for one, subscriber to American Birds since the early 70's, will 
not spend the $10.00, a modest enough charge, just to see my name in print. 
Further, I feel like Harry that collecting the $5.oo per person fee, to get 
the gutted out data published, is probably not worth it, but then they may 
not even put it on the web if you don't have at least some money, and names, 
attached to it. So perhaps the answer is to put a minimum of names, and fees, 
with each count, and use the net, however inconvenient, for data extraction.
I like Harry's suggestion that The Chat resume publication of the data, 
perhaps purged of participant names, other than the compiler, and with 
location data only shown when a center has been shifted, etc. And if NAt Aud 
doesn't want us to inffringe on their name (CBC), we can call them winter 
counts.
Pete Worthington

SC.