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    Date: 2/13/98
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple  125

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WEYERHAEUSER AWARDS GRANTS TO SLU
     HAMMOND -- The Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation recently announced two major
grants to Southeastern Louisiana University.
     The first grant for $10,000 will establish the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation
Endowed Scholarship that will be awarded annually to an academically deserving student who
lives in Tangipahoa, St. Tammany, Livingston or Washington parishes. The grant was presented
on Feb. 5 to Southeastern President Sally Clausen by R. E. Lane, Lumber Manufacturing
Manager for Weyerhaeuser's Mississippi and Louisiana Group headquartered at Fernwood, near
McComb, Miss.
     The second grant of $10,520 will go to Southeastern's biological sciences department and
is designated for research to determine the impact of forest practices on neotropical migratory
songbirds in loblolly pine stands. The grant adds to several years of partnership between the
company and Southeastern.
     Southeastern ornithologist Phillip Stouffer, an assistant professor of biological sciences,
and his graduate students are studying how forestry industry practices affect bird habitats on
Weyerhaeuser land in Tangipahoa and Livingston Parishes. Stouffer said Weyerhaeuser's grant
will allow him to extend his research activities into birds' summer breeding months.
     In announcing the grant, Lee Alford, vice president of the Mississippi and Louisiana
Group, said, "This project is an effort to conserve environmental and wildlife resources in
targeted geographical areas and also provides new ways of thinking about land-resource 
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management."
     The Miss-Lou Group, formerly part of Cavenham Forest Industries, owns and manages
more than 660,000 acres of commercial forest lands in South Mississippi and Southeast
Louisiana, and operates state-of-the-art Southern Yellow Pine sawmills at McComb, Miss., and
Holden, La.
     Stouffer said there is concern all over the world about migratory songbirds, such as the
Wood Thrush and the Prairie Warbler. "Local studies like ours," he said, "can provide the
detailed information necessary to suggest management and to predict how birds will fare in the
future.
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