Offer of Free* Illustrated Talk: ---- The Bald Eagle: A Retrospective - A Future

David Hancock, biologist and publisher, is pleased to address your group with a well illustrated slide lecture on the west coast bald eagles – their conservation and biology.

This brings together his ‘earlier life’ researching on eagles on the west coast via foot, aricraft and boat, his recent travels covering his current eagle studies along the Washington, British Columbia and Alaskan coasts.

David covers;

---- bald eagle biology – he dispels a number of eagle myths.

---- the recent invasion of eagles into SW B. C. & NW Washington State.

---- the Urban eagles that are now nesting on made-made structures.

---- the best viewing areas in the NW and the various Bald Eagle Festivals

---- he reviews the habitat requirements should you want to encourage more eagles – even to making artificial nests.

You specify the focus of your interest and I will focus the info.

For illustrated lecture contact:

David Hancock

Hancock Wildlife Research Center

19313 Zero Avenue,
Surrey BC Canada V3S 9R9

OR

1431 Harrison Avenue
Blaine WA USA 98230

604 538-1114 Fax 604 538-2262
David@hancockhouse.com
WEB www.hancockhouse.com

* I happily accept an honorarium to cover the travel!

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Photo of David Hancock on the Chilkat River AK by Glen Browning

The above book gives you a succinct summary of the biology of the Bald Eagle. If is fully illustrated in color and we give discounts on classroom sets.

For more details on David Hancock biography:

http://www.hancockhouse.com/research/DavidBio.pdf

In this article I'm concentrating on the most typical storage medium for digital photos today, the CD/DVD.

We all use CDs - either by getting them produced from our film at the processing lab, or because we just don't have enough hard disk (or reliable enough computers) that we feel confident of keeping our precious photos safe "online".

When CD-Rs were first proposed as a consumer digital storage medium some seventeen years ago in 1988, they rode on the coattails of the original "pressed" CDs introduced a few years earlier as a distribution medium. The pressed CD is touted as having a longevity measured in centuries. The problem is, many CD-Rs we can purchase at the local computer supply store will last only from as little as a year to the typical 5-10 years; far shorter a period than most people expect. DVD-Rs (DVD-R and DVD+R) suffer from similar problems, so for now I'll lump them all in together - the only point of difference being that if you lose a DVD to age you can lose a lot more photos.

Updated: - reference to article from storage expert "...short life span for burned CDs"