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JUNE MEETING and PROGRAM by Libby Mills About the Field Trips Grizzly Wars: Beginning Birders and Their Friends Are Always Welcome on Skagit Audubon Field Trips The Skagit Flyer Skagit Audubon Society A Chapter of National Audubon Society www.fidalgo.net/~audubon/ Vol. 29 No. 6 SUMMER FIELD TRIPS JUNE MEETING AND PROGRAM By Libby Mills About the field trips Grizzly Wars: Beginning birders and their friends are always welcome on Skagit Audubon field trips. Membership in Skagit The Public Fight over the Big Bear Audubon is encouraged but not required for participation. Please be By David Knibb prepared for the weather with suitable clothing, and bring field guides, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 binoculars, and spotting scopes. Carpool whenever possible and 7:00 Social; 7:30 Program contribute to the driver’s expense. Padilla Bay Interpretive Center This summer we hope to have a few 10433 Bayview-Edison Road more field trips and as they are proposed we will send out notice in Mount Vernon, Washington the Skagit Audubon Field Trip Reminder Email. To be included in these emails please send your email address to [email protected]. Grizzly Bear If you plan to join a field trip some Photographer Unknown place other than the described starting point, call the trip leader the Long a magnificent symbol of the wild, grizzly bears are perhaps the day before to ensure a successful most controversial species in North America. In his book, Grizzly Wars, rendezvous. Trip plans may change. David Knibb explores the policy and political issues involved in managing and attempting to save any species, especially one that can Friday - Sunday, June 18 - 20 pose a grave danger to human beings. The author looks at the grizzly Annual Klipchuck Campout bear recovery areas on both sides of the border, from the North Klipchuck Campground Cascades to the Northern Rockies. Mile 175, State Route 20 If you need more information Knibb examines the key issues in each region, including the heated contact Tim Manns: 360-336-8753, debate over the decision to remove Yellowstone’s grizzly from the list of or [email protected] threatened species. Knibb highlights the critical role of state governments in the recovery process, as well as the importance of Each summer members and friends of providing habitat that would link the areas in which grizzly populations Skagit Audubon gather in this USFS are presently confined. He also underscores our need to cooperate with Campground off Highway 20, 1.2 Canada in the management of grizzlies who inhabit areas along the miles up a side road on the north side of the highway near Highway mile border. 175, at elevation 2,900 feet. There are A resident of the Seattle area ,David Knibb, has a background in usually plenty of sharp eyes in our group and the birding is great right on environmental law, forestry, and wildlife management. An activist on resource conservation and environment issues in the Mountain West for Klipchuck Camp Out and other Field some forty-five years. Trips continued on page 6 June ~ August 2010 1 SKAGIT AUDUBON MEMBERSHIP/SUBSCRIPTIONS Board of Directors General membership meetings of the Skagit Audubon Society are held at the Padilla Bay OFFICERS Interpretive Center, 1043 Bayview-Edison Rd., Mt. Vernon, WA—7:00 PM Social/ 7:30 PM President: Tim Manns Program—on the second Tuesday of each month, September through June. The board of directors [email protected] meets at the same location at 7:00 PM on the first Tuesday of each month. 360-336-8753 Vice President: Phil Wright Skagit Audubon Society (SAS) membership provides a local chapter affiliation and newsletter, [email protected] The Flyer, for individuals who want all their funds to benefit their local chapter. Newsletters from 360-299-8212 additional chapters can be sought by contacting their websites and membership chairs from links at Secretary: Jean Ashby www.audubon.org/states/wa/ .To join Skagit Audubon Society please use the form below. [email protected] National Audubon Society (NAS) membership is separate from SAS membership and includes Treasurer: Wendy Walker Audubon magazine. National Audubon membership does not provide Skagit Audubon membership; [email protected] however, NAS will assign you an affiliation with a local chapter. To change your chapter assignment 360-757-0539 call 800-274-4201. To join National Audubon Society use the form below. Past President: Pam Pritzl [email protected] Skagit Audubon Society is a Chapter of the National Audubon Society. Our mission is 360-387-7024 to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats for COMMITTEE CHAIRS the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity. Conservation: OPEN Education: Joan Magee [email protected] Skagit Audubon Society Membership Form 360-293-8874 Field Trips: Libby Mills Annual membership in the Skagit Audubon Society includes 10 issues of our newsletter, The Skagit [email protected] Flyer. Membership includes all members of your household. 360-757-4139 $20 one (1) year $40 two (2) years Hikes: Joan Melcher [email protected] I wish to donate $______ to Skagit Audubon Society. 360-424-0407 Membership: Sheila Pera Name____________________________________________________ [email protected] Address__________________________________________________ Program Chair: OPEN Publications: Jackie Boss City/State____________________________ Zip__________________ [email protected] 360-299-8067 Telephone No.____________________ Email____________________ Newsletter Distributor: Barbara Craner Clip form/Mail to/Payable to: [email protected] 360-445-3118 Skagit Audubon Society REPRESENTATIVES P.O. Box 1101 Howard Armstrong Mount Vernon, WA 98273-1101 [email protected] Bob Barry Please do not share my personal information with National Audubon Society. (It is the policy of SAS [email protected] not to share information with any other groups.) Ivar Dolph [email protected] National Audubon Society Membership Form Jean Trent Annual membership to the National Audubon Society includes a subscription to Audubon magazine. [email protected] Membership includes all members of your household. Alice Turner [email protected] $20 for one-year introductory membership with one chapter affiliation Jane Wilson $35 for two (2) year introductory membership (normally $70) [email protected] FRIENDS $15 for student or senior 62 or older) membership Bird Sightings: Howard Armstrong [email protected] Name____________________________________________________ Hospitality: OPEN Address__________________________________________________ Webmaster: Julie Bishop [email protected] City/State___________________________ Zip___________________ Telephone No.____________________ Clip form/Mail to/Payable to: National Audubon Society Chapter Membership Data Center Y21 P.O. Box 422246-2246 7XCH Palm Coast, FL 32142 www.audubon.org For members receiving a paper copy of The Skagit Flyer, the mailing label includes your membership expiration date in the upper right corner. If that date is highlighted in orange it is a reminder that your membership is about to or has expired. All other members will receive an email notice when their membership is about to expire. The Skagit Flyer is published monthly from Grizzly Bear Cubs September through June. Unsolicited material for the next month's Flyer should be sent to the editor Photographer Unknown by the third Saturday of the current month. For questions or problems about your Skagit Flyer subscription, contact membership chair: Sheila Pera, [email protected] 2 The Skagit Flyer PRESIDENT’S JUNE MESSAGE: By Tim Manns Nearly 50 years ago Silent Spring sounded the alarm that much more dowsed with pesticides than those grown in pesticides kill birds and other unintended targets. As an the U.S., avoid buying these imports unless they’re important milestone in the environmental movement, organic, just as you choose organic, shade-grown, fair Rachel Carson’s book was eventually followed by laws trade coffee. Creating a market for organic crops promotes forming the bedrock of environmental protection today – the health of farm workers while it protects birds. the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, establishment of the Stutchbury speculates that heavy pesticide use in areas Environmental Protection Agency, etc. But as is often the where many Neotropical birds winter may explain some of case, victory was neither simple nor complete. Heightened their widespread decline. Of tropical fruits, bananas and awareness and legislation did not end the deaths of birds pineapples receive especially high applications of from pesticide poisoning. In the U.S., the threat of pesticide. Buy organic! Better yet, as much as possible pesticides such as DDT that persist in the environment and buy local organic and support the local agricultural accumulate in living tissue was replaced by that of economy, reduce fuel used in transporting food, and help shorter-lived, but much more toxic chemicals in use today. maintain healthy habitat for birds that depend on agricultural land right here. Living in a place so well suited for growing food, we have an even greater opportunity than many other people to We can make a difference too in our own use of make choices good for our health and for the environment pesticides, fungicides and other ―icides‖ on the lawn, roof, too, including for birds. In Silence of the Songbirds garden, and everywhere around our homes. Given the (2007), ornithologist Bridget Stutchbury lists the North effects on birds and other wildlife, on pets, on Puget American crops posing the greatest risk to birds because Sound - and on us – there are plenty of reasons
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