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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 6, 1993                   TAG: 9304060127
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: EMORY                                LENGTH: Short

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BALD EAGLE POPULATION TOPIC OF E&H LECTURE

The bald eagle population in Virginia's Chesapeake Bay area will be the lecture topic at 8 p.m. April 15 at Emory & Henry College by Mitchell Byrd, professor of biology at the College of William and Mary.

That population recently has started to recover from a severe decline, but Byrd feels that uncontrolled land-use practices still threaten the birds.

Byrd holds a bachelor's, a master's and a doctorate degree from Virginia Tech and an endowed chair at William and Mary, where he has taught since 1956.

- Southwest bureau

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