More on searches in other states

Some excerpts from an article in yesterday's Augusta Chronicle (subscription may be required; the bold font is mine):

If a bird thought to be extinct for six decades can turn up alive and well in the dense swamps of Arkansas, then why not South Carolina or Georgia?
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"We've designed a search that will enable us to have six two-person crews on the ground at any given time," said wildlife biologist Jennifer Koches of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's field office in Charleston, S.C.
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Last summer, however, ornithologists led by a team from Cornell University documented a small group of ivory-bills living within the 56,000-acre Cache River wildlife refuge of Arkansas.
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The Fish & Wildlife Service will use about $75,000 in grants to buy cameras and audio recording gear that volunteers - who are being trained by Cornell ornithologists - will take into the field.
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Funds for the search are part of a broader program in which states where the bird once lived can seek federal assistance for reconnaissance programs. So far, Texas, Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia have applied.