... Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, according to Karen Rowe, the AGFC's non-game migratory bird program coordinator. Ron Andrews and Dave Hoffman of the Iowa DNR brought the young trumpeter swans to Arkansas. Also participating in the project are ...

... to return to Iowa. "The DNR has been releasing captive produced young swans on state wetlands since 1995," said Ron Andrews, wildlife biologist with the Iowa DNR. "The goal of these efforts has been to reestablish a wild, free flying population ...

... the most common and most serious predators that swans in Arkansas will face are bobcats, coyotes and feral dogs." Ron Andrews, who heads the Iowa DNR swan work, commented while in Arkansas that power lines are a major cause of death or injury ...