Summer 2004 . Issue No. 70 What you will find inside issue No. 70 Links will connect you to the author's e-mail address. Cover Illustration - 'Luncheon of the Llama Party' - by Paige McGrath

Editorial

• A Renaissance? - Jo Ann McGrath
  

Letters

News

• LAMA Community 2004 August 6 - 8 - Karen Conygham
• ILR Board Faces Some Challenges
• Libby Forstner Bows Out of ARI Board - Eric Hoffman
• Alpaca Association Takes Over Co-op - Sylva Barns
• Overview of the U.S. Animal Identification Plan
• Industry Group Tackles Camelid ID Plan

Views

• Registry Blues and How to Shake Ôem (ILR) - Paul Taylor
• Trouble in Paradise Redux (ARI) - Jay Binobu

Obituaries

• Linda Pierce
• Marilyn Lindsay

Breeding

• Enter: The Paco-Vicuna - Phil and Dave Switzer
• Questioning the Classic Llama Focus Group - Bev Henry
• The Mini is Growing Big Time - Lynda Carothers
• Traditional Llama Coalition - Heather Bamford & Kay Sharpnack
• Vicuna -patterned Alpacas - Alice Y. Brown
• An Idea: Buck the Trend - Margaret Van Camp
• Portmanteau McGrath (page 21) - An experiment in crossbreeding

Fiber

• Studying the Vicuna to Better Understand Alpac
  a Fiber - Eric Hoffman
• Suri Fiber on Llamas - Heather Bamford

Events

• Llama Magic: Fun and A Sale Venue - Sheila Fugina
• Celebrity 2004 - Lynda Carothers

Marketing

• The Invisible Buyer - Melanie R. Forde
• Alpacas - A Market Forecast - Starr Cash

People

• A New Zealand Approach to llamas - Kathy Ross
• Llama Walks on French Island - Sylva Barns

Feature

• Rainbows ÔBlessÕ Transfer of Patterson Herd - Justin Timm
• The History of the Patterson Herd -Kay Patterson Sharpnack

Showing

• A Toast to Whiskey - Dale Goodyear
• Soapbox - Can This Organization (ALSA) Be Saved - Gayle Woodsum
• The Virginia Classic Celebrates 10 Years - Paige McGrath
• Show Results
  Riverside County Fair, Indio, California
  Virginia Classic Llama Show (ALSA)
  Virginia Classic Alpaca Show (AOBA)

  So You Want to Have a Llama Drill Team... - Sheila Fugina

Outreach

• Rescue Averts Tragedy - Joyce Abrams
• Rescue is Not a Four Letter Word - Sheila Fugina

Online

• LLII Notable Llama Site - Jim White
• URL Directory

Crossword Puzzle

Calendar of Events

Classifieds