http://www.lowellschake.com Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:56:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At 7:00 p.m. on April 7, 2009, the Coastal Bend Audubon Society will feature On the Wings of Cranes at their monthly meeting. For details proceed to AUDUBON Looking forward to seeing you there. http://www.lowellschake.com/press-room/coastal-bend-audubon-next/ Your newest on-line Whooping Crane friend has just established a webpage at AMIGO. This organization has a long standing history of supporting Whooping Cranes and other issues associated with the expansive Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. AMIGO derives its acronymic name from Aransas & Matagorda Island Guardian/Orator as a true friend ... http://www.lowellschake.com/blog/amigo-our-friends/ Click on SCARBABY to learn more about a once injured, now famous, Whooping Crane at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. Before he became a front page feature in the Feburary 10, 2009 Corpus Christi Caller Times, he was featured on page 211 of On the Wings of Cranes. In the book ... http://www.lowellschake.com/press-room/scarbabythe-famous-whooper/ Reasearching, writiing and publishing books has its 'ups' and 'downs', but a few words of praise go a long way to grease the skids. Best of all, comments by scholars and critics assist potential readers. On the Wings of Cranes has only three published reviews. More will soon ... http://www.lowellschake.com/books/praise-for-schakes-books/ The Wildlife Volunteer of Michigan's Wildlife Conservancy published the following article in their January-February 2009 issue on page 4. Picture credits belong to Mark Weldon of Fort Wayne, Indinia, Larry Walkinshaw's companion. The article's title, subtitle and a picture introduce the story. ____________________________ Biography of LAWRENCE WALKINSHAW based on the new book ... http://www.lowellschake.com/press-room/michigan-wildlife-conservancy-features-walkinshaws-life/ Dateline: January 2, 2009. The Corpus Christi CALLER-TIMES reports that food supplies for wintering Whooping Cranes at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Aransas, Texas is imperilled due to drought. Insufficient inflow of fresh water from streams feeding the region is blamed for the shortage of blue crabs and other preferred foods ... http://www.lowellschake.com/blog/whoopers-winter-food-imperilled/ On the wings of Cranes: Larry Walkinshaw's Life Story will be presented by author Lowell M. Schake in the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge Conference Room, Austwell, Texas. The public is invited to this day-long event running from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on January 24th, 2009 at the Rufuge Headquarters. ... http://www.lowellschake.com/press-room/aransas-national-wildlife-refuge-january-24th/ The blog of November 30, 2008 told of Schake family Thanskgiving events with birds and books. Christmas Holidays will feature the same. Sheryl and Aaron Meskin along with their son Ethan will see their first copies of On The Wings of Cranes: Larry Walkinshaw's Life Story. This volume is dedicated ... http://www.lowellschake.com/blog/birds-family-on-the-north-sea/ Mark your calendar for Saturday, January 10, 2009 to discover, at last, "The True Story of Whooping Crane Recovery". This 3:00 p.m. program will be held at Corpus Christi's Northwest Branch Library, 3202 McKinzie Road featuring Larry Walkinshaw's previously untold fifty-years (1940-1992) devoted to saving Whooping Cranes. He searched for ... http://www.lowellschake.com/blog/at-last-the-true-story-of-whooping-crane-recovery-exposed/ The Coastal Bend Audubon Society of Corpus Christi, Texas is sponsoring an April 14, 2009 program featuring "On the Wings of Crane: Larry Walkinshaw's Life Story". L. M. Schake, its author, will offer comments supportive to his power point presentation. Public is invited to attend this 7:00 p.m. event held ... http://www.lowellschake.com/blog/april-coastal-bend-audubon-program/