Monday's Chicago Tribune contains the old "8% searched" spin again, this time from Scott Simon,
director of the Arkansas Nature Conservancy:
"We're searching through more than half a million acres," Simon said, "and last year our search covered only 8 percent of the ecosystem."
I think Simon's statement is disingenuous. I think Cornell searcher Tim Barksdale was more candid when he wrote this last May (the bold font is mine):
Few key areas still remain to be searched. But we have only used transects in 8% of this huge area.
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