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MIDWEST PEREGRINE FALCON RESTORATION, 2007 REPORT<br />
Patrick T. Redig* John S. Castrale** and Jane A. Goggin*<br />
*Raptor Center **Indiana Div. Fish & Wildlife<br />
Univ. of Minnesota 562 DNR Road<br />
1920 Fitch Ave. Mitchell IN 47446<br />
St. Paul MN 55108 (812) 849-4586<br />
(612) 624-9790<br />
redig001@umn.edu jcastrale@dnr.in.gov<br />
goggi001@umn.edu<br />
MIDWEST PEREGRINE SOCIETY<br />
In October 2007, the <strong>Midwest</strong> <strong>Peregrine</strong> Society was formed as a non-profit 501(c3) fund-raising<br />
organization. Its purpose is to ensure the long-term maintenance of the monitoring, data<br />
collection, and reporting on the status of the peregrine falcon in the <strong>Midwest</strong>ern states and<br />
Canadian provinces that has been established. Redig is the President and CEO, Juli Ponder the<br />
secretary/treasurer, Peifer the operations vice-president, and Fallon the VP for Minnesota field<br />
operations. The Board of Directors consists of: Harrison B. Tordoff, Robert Berry, Wick Corwin,<br />
Frank Gill, Walter Pratt and Pat Redig. The business address is 1920 Fitch Avenue St. Paul,<br />
Minnesota 56308.<br />
MIDWEST PEREGRINE FALCON WEBSITE<br />
A peregrine website for the <strong>Midwest</strong> is open to the public at http://midwestperegrine.org.<br />
Richard Peifer, Mark Decker, Bruce Fall, and Kyle Hammond from the Biology Program,<br />
University of Minnesota, developed the web site. Peifer designed the website, Decker and<br />
Hammond adapted the database to the website and made it searchable, and Fall designed the<br />
database at its start in 1992. In addition to general information about the peregrine program, the<br />
site presents the <strong>Midwest</strong> peregrine database in a searchable format, making it useful for research<br />
as well as for locating specific records or groups of records.<br />
Many features were added to the database during 2006. The additional refinement and<br />
programming was done by the partnership of Rick Peifer and Kyle Hammond, IT specialist for<br />
the Biology Program. The first new element was a temporary database that can be accessed by<br />
authorized individuals allowing them to submit data. When fully tested and operational, this<br />
feature will permit direct data entry. Once the entire dataset for a season has been collected, it<br />
will be checked for errors and then added permanently to the main database. The second<br />
element was addition of exact GPS lat/long coordinates for each site, a work still in progress.<br />
This function in the database has been linked to Google Maps, allowing operators to obtain<br />
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