. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: Chapter 7: Telling the Wildlife Story 117. Shortly before budget cuts forced the termination of the CWS interpretive program. Chiefs of the Wildlife Research and Interpretation Branch met at the National Wildlife Research Centre in Hull: {front row, I. to r.) G. Finney, W. Prescott, M. Lis, L Price, J. Vincent, G. Scotter; {back row) C. Dauphine, J. A. Keith (Branch Director), P. Whitehead, J. Foley (Photo credit: CWS). game clubs, and other organizations. But the vision of David Munro, Yorke Edwards, and others, of a national network of interacti
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: Chapter 7: Telling the Wildlife Story 117. Shortly before budget cuts forced the termination of the CWS interpretive program. Chiefs of the Wildlife Research and Interpretation Branch met at the National Wildlife Research Centre in Hull: {front row, I. to r.) G. Finney, W. Prescott, M. Lis, L Price, J. Vincent, G. Scotter; {back row) C. Dauphine, J. A. Keith (Branch Director), P. Whitehead, J. Foley (Photo credit: CWS). game clubs, and other organizations. But the vision of David Munro, Yorke Edwards, and others, of a national network of interactive CWS sites where Canadians could encounter nature face to face, lies in abeyance. Passive exhibits, pamphlets, and inter- pretive signs enhance the experience of visitors to some conservation areas. A more active experience of nature awaits visitors to the Pacific and Yukon regional office, located in the Alaksen National Wildlife Area among the rich wetlands of the Eraser Delta, and to the Atlantic regional office in Sackville, New Brunswick, adjacent to the award- winiung Sackville Waterfowl Park. Nor was all its interpretive talent lost to CWS. In Vancouver, Rob Butler made a successful transition from interpretive officer to research scientist but retained a strong sense of the importance of good public relations. In 1985, he and R. Wayne Campbell of the provincial museum were engaged in a study of bird habitats in the Eraser River estuary. They deter- mined that the area was used at various times of the year by some 300 species of birds from 20 countries on three continents and concluded in their CWS Occasional Paper that "there is no other site in Canada that supports the diversity and number of birds found in winter in the Eraser River ;^^ With little hope that the paper would have much influence, they nonetheless included a strong recom- mendation that key areas in the delta be afforded the highest forms of habitat protection, and when a reporter from
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