Autumn 2001 . Issue No. 59 What you will find inside issue No. 59 Links will connect you to the author's email address. Cover Illustration - by Paige McGrath

Editorial

• Unfriendly Persuasions - Jo Ann McGrath

Letters

• Letters to the Editor

News

• U.S Prepares for a Foreign Animal Disease Outbreak - Karen Conyngham
• Industry Concerns Discussed at Lama Community 2001 Meet in KC - Sheila Fugina
• ILR Makes Investment in the Future - Letters to the Editor
• Sanctuary Provides Update and Answers Questions Posed - Kathryn Warrington
• Australian Fiber Co-op Escapes Near-Death By Swallowing its Competition - Sylva Barns
• Alpaca Boards' Push for Merger Critiqued - Eric Hoffman
• LANA Bestows Awards - Sheila Fugina
• Camelid Breeders Raise Money for Ohio State Endowment Fund - Barb Baker
• LANA, Always High on Youth Presents Achievement Awards - Sheila Fugina
• Can't Sell? Do Something! Tips from those who did. - Trudy Green
• Sanctuary Receives Three Alpacas - Patrick Cassese
• LANA's Expo Offered Wide Variety - Sheila Fugina

In Short

Health

• Report of Llamas Poisoned by Fireweed - Sylva Barns
• Mid Atlantic Regional Workshop on Animal Health Emergency Management - Dan Goodyear
• Nutrition in Llamas/What Veterinarians and Owners Should Know - C. Norman Evans, DVM

Husbandry

• For Beginners: General Management/One Farm's Perspective - Jo Ann McGrath
• Looking at Reasons Why a Dam Refuses to Let her Cria Nurse - Murray Fowler, DVM (reprinted from Llamas Magazine)

Breeding

• The Fiduciary: Most Prolific Sire
• Legendary Sire

  *Bolero

Center Spread

• Mike Larrabee: Llama Trekker with Olympian Heart - Eric Hoffman
• Hoffman, Author and Alpaca Registry Creator, Weds

Showing

• Judging Conformation - Paige McGrath
• Performance Classes Require Rapport, Teamwork and Finesse - Carolyn Blalock
• Show Results:

  Rogue River Gold Llama Show

  LANA Expo 2001 Llama Show

  Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, Maryland

  Illinois State Fair

  Albemarle County Fair, Virginia

Performance

• Crystal Begis Packing Career at 10- Trudy Green
• Driving: Beginning Technique/Step VII - Find Tuning - John L. Piper

Fiber

• Colors to Dye For - Madeleine Landis

People

• Charles Darwin's Encounter with Guanocos - Eric Hoffman
• Newsletter Editor Publishes her Llama Stories - Sharon Hubbard
• How 'Just Folks' Keep Llamas in a Changing Global Climate - Alvin Bean and Lance Hardcastle
• Llama Sighting - Sheila Fugina

Archives

• Past as Prologue

Online

• eMail & URL Directory

Calendar of Events

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