Great July article in the Memphis Flyer

This July Memphis Flyer article is one of the best that I've seen on the Ivory-bill search in Arkansas. A previous version of the same article appeared in The Arkansas Times in June--I mentioned that article here.

Both articles were written by Leslie Newell Peacock. At the bottom of the Memphis Flyer article, this note appears:
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...[Peacock] is also the journalist whose researcher husband managed to keep the ivory-billed woodpecker a secret from her for 14 months.
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Possibly because of Peacock's close connection to the search team, this article is chock-full of interesting tidbits.

For now, here are a few snippets:
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Why would a philanthropist privately lend the Arkansas field office of the Nature Conservancy up to $20 million at no interest?
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What followed was a Series of Fortunate Events, in which a hush-hush group of some 200 people, sworn to secrecy, managed to keep the chase secret for 14 months (including one researcher married to a journalist).
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Thirty full-time researchers and dozens more volunteers -- Team Elvis -- hit the swamps of the Cache and White River National Wildlife Refuge...
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Diplomacy was needed, though team members say there was amazing cooperation throughout. Bobby Harrison wanted assurance he’d get the first photograph, what some people were calling the “million dollar picture.” Tim Gallagher wanted his book out first. They and others were frank about their motivations, Scott Simon said, and he worked “to make sure their dreams didn’t get lost.”
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Their paper announcing the find was completed and sent to Science April 6th.
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Stuttgart, Arkansas, dentist and big-game hunter Rex Hancock founded the Citizens’ Committee to Save the Cache and drilled his point at home and elsewhere in the Mississippi flyway that the number-one mallard wintering grounds in the nation should be preserved.
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Billionaires were treated to tours of the swamps and East Arkansas motels.
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The small area where the sightings took place, in and near the Benson Creek area of the bayou, became the “hot zone.”
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The June Arkansas Times article contains some text omitted from the July Memphis Flyer version. Some examples:
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Two weeks ago, the [Luneau] videotape got a standing ovation at an environmental film festival in Telluride, Colo.
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Late in the game, after searchers were told the bird had to be verified because “you can’t be a little bit pregnant,” they discreetly teased out how convinced their colleagues were by asking, “Are you pregnant?”
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A sentence about David Sibley differs slightly in the two versions.

June version:
The soft-spoken expert, the Roger Tory Peterson of the current generation, said he’d called the Cornell Lab a year ago after he’d heard a rumor from TNC people in Mississippi.

July version:
The soft-spoken expert said he’d called the Cornell lab a year ago after he’d heard a rumor from Nature Conservancy people in Mississippi.