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Volunw 31, Issue 3 The Stilt March 2002 Newsletter of the Bridgerland Audubon Society

^^^m^^ In our endurineg quesQuesttt too of cobalt and emeralde . adapted to the dry growing engender in all we meet a conditions here and will do fascination with native bees To attract foraging bees to fine with little or no supple• commensurate with our own, your yard, you need . mental irrigation. It is cer• we will now focus on the The sugary nectar from tainly not exhaustive, but it side of the equation flowers provides bees with gives you, the with a list of garden their main source of energy. birder, a start on the second with which you can entice Pollen from flowers provides part of the "the birds and the bees to your yard. all of the other nutrients bees." For a more extensive needed by their helpless list, you can view the website "Why," you ask, "would I offspring. Honeybees are of USDA Logan Bee Lab : want to invite bees to my unique in storing concen• www.LoganBeeLab.usu.edu. yard?" trated nectar as honey for much later use. Sometimes a - Linda Ken/in & Jim Cane The utilitarian answer is that foraging bee will acquire bees pollinate. Some fruit both nectar and pollen from and many vegetable crops a single kind of ; in will produce just fine without other cases, they go to one a pollinator's help. But if you flower for pollen and others Inside this issue: want your squashes, melons, for nectar. cucumbers, apples, , Gardening for Bees sweet cherries and others to Following is a short list of - t/nda Kerv/n & J/m bear fruit, you will need bees. flowering garden plants that Plant List for Bees can be grown in Cache Valley The aesthetic reason for to feed native bees. The inviting bees is that they play ones that we grow in Conservation Easements - Bryan Dixon an integral role in our ecosys• our own yard on tem. Plus, watching them Logan's east bench The Park School Garden forage and nest is fun. are noted with an •Acadia Gantz Really. Most native bees "X". Many are .-SvO have a very minor sting, Green Calendar unlike the introduced honey• bee, and are very docile. In If You Built It... our 1/3 of an acre yard in - Eve Da vies Logan, we see many differ• ent kinds , of bees My Eagle Project 7 - Zach Anderson from If lumber• Actions & Political Notes 8 ing, furry, orange- striped bumble• bees to tiny, showy Local Notes 10 bees in jewel tones Page 2 The Stat Plant List foi-

NUS COMMON NAME Notes MWum allium X Hymenoxys alpine sunflower Ma I us apple Aster aster not doubled, X bactielor's button, corn flower not doubled, some weedy, X Berberls "Barberry "JT bell flower X black-eyed susan X Gaillardia blanket flower Liatris blazing star Nemophila blue eyes X Caryopteris blue mist spirea X Phacelia bluebells, scorpionweed X Nepeta catmint X cherry, not doubled, X Purshla "cliff "X" Trifolium X Echinacea cone flower X coreopsis X Coriandrum X Cosmos "cosmos "X Anethum X Foeniculum F. vulgare Erigeron fleabane X Gilia gilia blue or violet Sphaeralcea globemallow goldenrod X hyssop Lavandula lavendar X Astragalus Jocoweed "mahonia Ratibida Mexican hat Tithonia Mexican sunflower X mint X Physostegia obedient plant X Penstembh penstemoh X Callirhoe mallow Petalostemon prairie clover Chrysothamnus rabbit brush, chamisa X Rubus raspberry, blackberry, brambles some weedy, X Cercis "redbud Rosa rugosa-type and wild not doubled, some weedy Perovskia Russian sage, filigran X Salvia salvia, sage blue or violet, X Caragena Siberian peashrub "speedwell, veronica X squash, gourd, pumpkin X Rhus Helianthus sunflower not doubled, X Hedysarum sweet vetch, trench honeysuckle Thymus " "X Valeriana X Eriogonum wild buckwheat X Salix not weeping willow Achillea yarrow A. millefolium weedy, X ConseF-vgtion Easements whg w€ want them & whg wc mag wont to use thicm

From time to time, Bridgerland build but not the right of ingress. Audubon Society and other conser• The states also recognized that They can be for limited periods or vation organizations consider using individual citizens could hold certain perpetuity. They can be traded or conservation easements to protect rights to property. These rights were sold or given. In each case, however, habitat and sensitive lands. What set forth in state constitutions and the agreement has to be spelled out are these tools and why are they of legislation and then further defined in great detail. Provisions have to be use to conservationists? The reason in volumes of case law after litiga• made to file notices with the prop• is simple—bucks. If all you want to tion. States and other governments erty—"covenants that run with the do is keep development from reserved the right to take back land"—so that future prospective ruining some patch of Mother Earth, those rights in certain circum• purchasers of the land can conduct you don't need to own it. Buy the stances—specifically when it's in the a title search and be aware of any rights you want to control and use public good—through a process of limitations in rights they buy from the savings to save some other eminent domain. the landowner and know what rights patch of the world. are held by other parties. Citizens therefore have certain This technique of conservation rights to parcels of property, such In the end, a landowner can, out of easements requires an understand• as the right to build structures, concern for some higher purpose or ing of basic property rights. Unlike plant crops, control in old England common law, when ingress and egress, we "own" property in the United etc. Governments States, we don't own absolute then use their "police rights around the perimeter of our power" to further land from the center of the Earth to control what landowners do within for pecuniary interest, agree to the infinite heavens. What we own some limits. For example, it's relinquish some of the property is better described as a bundle of generally accepted that just not rights to another individual or legal rights within some perimeter. anybody can put a radioactive organization. The agreement is waste pit on their property. On the unique and must be carefully When the original thirteen colonies other hand, governments cannot worded to protect all interests, declared their independence from restrict property so much that present and future. Organizations Mother England, they became landowners have no "economic such as Audubon can achieve what thirteen individual countries (or use." To do so constitutes a we want—habitat protection—and "states") with absolute, sovereign "taking" of all significant rights and not have to pay the entire cost of rights to the lands and water within generally forces the government to owning any particular parcel by their borders. In later signing the U. exercise eminent domain and pay acquiring a conservation easement. S. Constitution, the states relin• the landowner fair market value. It's a powerful instrument, tricky in quished some very specific rights to execution, but capable of stretching a "federal government" (such as Further, just as the government and our precious dollars to do the most the rights to maintain armies and individual landowners each hold "good." regulate interstate commerce) and some of the rights to property, an - by Bryan Dixon anything they didn't expressly give individual landowner can give or sell (Bryan holds a master's degree in away, the states kept. Thereafter, some of their rights and retain the Community and Environmental each state created subdivisions balance. This is generally referred to Planning from the University of within it described variously as as an easement. Rhode Island and was a member of counties, townships, cities, towns, the American Institute of Certified villages, etc. Each kind of political In the interest of protecting habitat, Planners - whoopdedoo!) subdivision was accorded some of wildlife, scenic views, access, the rights held by the state and recreation or other interests, citi• once again, the state kept the zens may negotiate with a land• balance. (Those of you who have owner to acquire the rights to lived in other states may have develop a piece of property. These realized that there is quite a variety transactions can be in number of in these local governments.) forms. They can transfer the right to Page 4 The Stilt

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The Park school garden was thought of by Mrs. rocks. She would like a rabbitbrush in the Joyce Cline to teach children about native garden. One of my classmates by the name plants/rocks, and to have a place for wildlife. of Kelbie Hamby won and donated a bristle- The garden was started in 1996 by the whole cone . The following people helped in school, Headstart and with the garden: the Lion's club, Audu• 1^ and Mr. Clint bon, Mr. Daines, Mr. Hawkes, Bert Stokes, j Ward. The plants Northern Utah conservation, Mrs. Jones, the include the state of Utah, Logan City, teachers and students of Park school and many parents. -kcadla Gantz

, Alpine current, choke cherry, elderberry, LEGEND FOR OUTDOOR EDU.CATION AREA-PARK SCHOOL service berry, willow, dogwood, The mrtol on ejd, o* the symbols rand for these rocks or plants; P • Potencifb DW - Oo«MOOd broad leaf moun• ALC-Alp.neC,irjnt Bl. MM - BroxHeal Moonam Mjhopn, Ch Ch . Choke Chetry a MM - Ci»1eif Mounts., Mmogsny tain mahogany, El B Eldert>err|r s c - Sjrdsie Canyon Rock curleaf mountain Ser B - SefVKretory ^ „ . yj^. W.Wi«ow Blank rocks i,e Br,(hani mahogany, El B - EWerterr, Sandstone Ouart2 bristlecone pine, wild rose, snow- berry and colum• bine. The rocks include Sardine canyon rock, Weber river rock, and Brigham sandstone quartz. Mrs. Cline says she would like a bigger garden space because she loves work• ing in the garden and she would like more plants/ The Stilt Page 5

Gi^een Qlend^^ march Utah Native Plant Society: Native Plant Propagation Workshop. $10 per person Pre registration is required for this super-popular workshop. Each session is limited to 20 participants, so call 435/258-0303 early to sign up. Saturday, 9 am & 1 pm. For more information: 435/258-0303, email: [email protected]. Stokes Nature Center Owls Program. Dick Hurren will be doing his owls program for the stokes Nature Center on 9 March, 1 pm. If you haven't seen It, you may wish to attend: if you have seen it or are not interested, go out and have a happy birding day on your own. Learn how owls locate and capture their prey, practice your best owl call, and learn to identify owls by sight and sound. Program fee is $5 for adults and $3 for children, half price for Nature Center members. For more information on Dick's program and on the early evening owling afterward, contact the Stokes Nature Center at 755-3239. AT 5 pm, walk through our local canyons with Dick Hurren to see and hear some owls that spend their winter in northern Utah. Transportation will be provided. Space is limited, call SNC to reserve your spot. Field trip fee is $5 per person, half price for nature center members.

4 Utah Native Plant Society: USU Intermountain Herbarium Tour. Down, down, into the depths of the usu Junction to / tour through the treasures of the Intermountain Herbarium. Don't miss this one! Thanks to Mary Barkworth for this great opportunity. Tuesday, 7 pm. For more information: 435/258-0303, email: [email protected].

Bridgerland Audubon Society General Meeting, our esteemed pres, Val Grant win deliver a very entertaining (we're all sure) on bats: Bats & the Axis of Evil. Logan City Building Meeting Room. 7 pm.

Bridgerland Audubon Outing: Bald Eagles at Willard Bay. A perfect trip to chase away cabin fever and to get some good exercise. This is an annual outing led by Jim Sinclair and Reinhard Jockel to observe Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles and other raptors. First stop is at Willard Bay State Park, about 10 miles south of Brigham City, where eagles roost all winter, as long as there is ice-free water. From there the group will drive to the edge of the Willard Gravel Pit and climb up a narrow ravine to a more gentle ridge and a splendid overlook of Willard Canyon, where graceful raptors soar at eye level on their way to roosts in trees above. It's a strenuous hike, so bring good boots, warm clothes and lunch. The start is relaxed, however, as we don't leave until 10 am from the parking lot by the Caffe Ibis (50 East 150 North). Box Elder County participants may prefer to meet at the entrance to Willard Bay State Park at about 10:50 a.m. For more info call Jim Sinclair at 752-0061 or Dick Hurren at 435/734-2653.

Utah Native Plant Society: Chapter IVIeeting. Wednesday, 6:30 pm: 7 pm. Presentation: Invasive Weeds with Steve Dewey. USU's Steve Dewey will speak on weeds and the devastating effects they are having on Cache Valley agriculture and native plants. For more information: 435/258.0303, email: [email protected].

Bridgerland Audubon Outing: Amalga Barrens/Sewage Lagoons for Returning Waterfowl. The Amaiga Barrens are famous for their shallow ponds, which attract tadpoles, aquatic invertebrates, and the critters that feed on them - namely birds. Sandhill Cranes are dancing and all those odd ducks are hanging out waiting for the winds that take them further north. A bit early for shore birds, but you never know what you might see. If the weather doesn't cooperate, we'll go to the Logan Sewage Lagoons instead. The trip leaves from the parking lot by the Caffe Ibis (50 East 150 North) at 9 am. Return by lunch. For more info call Keith Archibald, 752-8258 or Dick Hurren, 435/734-2653.

Bridgerland Audubon Outing: Gunnison Sage-Grouse Courtship Extended Foray. Because the Gunnison Sage-Grouse was only recently separated from the Greater Sage-Grouse and made a separate species, this will be a new "life list" bird for many of you. There is a very small area in extreme southeastern Utah that has one active lek of these birds. We have been given permission by the Utah DWR to be one of only two small groups to view these birds on their booming grounds this year. Participants must be in Monticello, Utah by late afternoon on Friday, 29 March to listen to a DWR biologist discuss the grouse mating ritual and tell us how we must act at the lek area. We will then arise very early on the morning of 30 March and travel with the DWR biologist to the lek area to observe the grouse. There are many other interesting birding spots in southeastern Utah, which participants may wish to investigate afterwards. Carpools are encouraged: reservations are required. Call Bryan Dixon, 752-6830 or Dick Hurren, 435/734-2653 to make your reservation and/or to learn more about motel and campground accommodations in the Monticello area. ou bui'M it...

In case you're wondering could certainly be enticed moving through the valley as about the large dirt mounds into nesting here once again. early as this spring and you may have seen south of Additionally, it fit right in with utilized. Zack and his troop the new trail near Benson the overall Cutler Resource moved a whole lot of dirt Marina, like they said Management Plan project, in around for this project, as in the movie Field of terms of improving wildlife each one of the four tunnels Dreams, "If you habitat in the area (see the had approximately eight build it, they will January issue of the St//t for cubic yards of soil (think eight come," although in additional detail regarding BIG truck loads of dirt) that this case we're PacifiCorp's Cutler project). needed to be placed over talking about under• them to provide critical ground owl nesting tunnels, After making a few calls to insulation from both summer not baseball diamonds. Still, local BAS members Bryan heat and winter cold. They the theory is the same. Dixon and Keith Archibald to also installed posts for Burrowing owls used to nest solicit advice (and to see the perching around each in a few spots on the west bird, who of course had mound. Zack wrote a short side of Cutler Reservoir, often disappeared when they project report about his in fields converted from came out), I obtained con• experience, which is ex• agricultural production to struction plans for artificial cerpted here. Please contact Crop Reserve Program (CRP) burrowing owl tunnels and me (eve.davies@pacificorp. grasslands. PacifiCorp lands additional advice from Don com or 801/232-1704) if you could provide abundant Mclvor. Help also presented are out in the Benson area habitat available for this itself in the form of Zack and see some burrowing small, tunnel-dwelling spe• Anderson, an Eagle Scout in owls, or if you want to go see cies of owl in an area imme• need of a project from Salt the project and need more diately south of their last Lake City. Zack and his directions to find the area. known Cache Valley nesting family and scout troop put in Let's hope Kevin Costner was location, which was near a lot of time meeting to plan, right about building new Cache Junction. After observ• raise funds, and eventually habitats (baseball diamonds ing a single burrowing owl build and install four artifi• could be considered habitats last spring investigating a cial burrowing owl tunnels on for the players, right?) in old small (less than a foot deep) PacifiCorp lands located on corn patches. burrow located in the west- the west side of the reser• - Eve Dav/es facing slope of one of our voir, and south of the new erosion control check dams, I Benson RR bridge and trail. got to thinking about the last Brian Dixon and Ron Ryel time I had seen burrowing helped us choose what we owls in Cache Valley, about hope will be wonderful 10 years ago. PacifiCorp had locations for new burrowing recently converted the 300- owl families interested in acre agricultural field where I relocating to Cache Valley. observed the owl into a perennial grassland that The tunnels were installed seemed as though if there late last October, and we are were just some suitable hopeful they will be 'found' tunnels, burrowing owls by some Burrowing Owls TheStih Page?

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My Eagle Project was to build and my troop had a contact at helping her with this project, Scott. put in nesting boxes for burrowing Brubaker Construction. I called We walked around a big field of owls near Cutler Reservoir. I heard this person and they donated grass for about two hours looking about this project from my mom. almost all the wood that I needed at possible Sites for the nests. The She knew a person who works for for the boxes. Once I had all the bird specialists were telling me Pacific Corp, the person who she money together, I talked to Eve about how every thing should be: knows is Eve Davies. Eve had a one more time to finalize some such as which way the door should project of cleaning up and bringing things. We decided which model be facing, and how high the dirt back wildlife around Cutler Reser• of nest box we were going to use, mounds should be. We got four voir. My mom told Eve that I was and that we were going to make Sites picked out and marked them getting ready to start an Eagle four different nests. with little flags. Then Scott took us Project, and she told her about to a ranch that PacificCorp owns this project that she was going to With the money donations that I and showed us where we could start about the Owl nests. She had received, my dad and I went camp for the night that we would said that she would be willing to out and bought the remaining be staying in Cache Valley. let me take over and use it as my materials that we needed. Now Eagle Project. that I had everything starting to The next date we had set was the come together, I had to start one that we put in the nest boxes. I met with Eve in May 2001, and setting some dates. My parents This date was the weekend of the we talked about where the nests and I sat down with a calendar 20th of October. We had made it ' boxes would go, what kind of and set the dates of when we the troop's October Camp Out to funding I would need, and we were going to build the boxes, and come up to this place and have looked at some different varieties also when I would go up to the the whole troop help me put these of plans for different kinds of sites, and when we were going to nests in. We got there around nesting boxes. I basically got all put the boxes in. noon and met up with Scott, who the general information and all the had all the shovels and tools that questions that I need answered, On October 6, 2001 we had we needed. PacificCorp had four and then she turned the whole planned to build them. So that mounds of dirt hauled in and thing over to me. day I had everything set up to dumped in the sites that we were build them in my back yard. I had installing nest boxes. We did this The next thing that I did was call told my Troop about it and asked because the ground up there is around and I wrote some e-mails as many as possible to come. I rock hard and the nests have to be to different people that Eve had had six kids show up and two underground. So we created an said to talk to, to gather more adults. We worked in little groups artificial mound with our own dirt. information on what this was of two or three, and actually the We met up with Scott, and went to going to be like. I talked to differ• building of them went pretty fast work putting these nests in. There ent bird specialists to get more and quite well. We were all hungry were 14 kids and 7 adults includ• information on the owls them• by the time that we were done, so ing my parents and Scott. We selves. I also talked to people who we ordered some pizza and had a started work at about 12:30 p.m. had tried the artificial burrowing nice lunch. and ended near 6 p.m . Once we owl nest in other parts of the were done I was quite happy, and country. I spoke to them to get an The next weekend was the 13th we went to dinner. idea if the boxes were going to be of October. This was the weekend -Zack Anderson at all successful, and what types that I had planned to visit the of things work and what things sites where these nesting boxes don't. During this time I was also would be placed. We met Eve and sending out letters explaining my a couple of other people that she project and asking for any kind of had brought with her. Two of them support that they could offer me. were bird specialists, and the One of the Committee members of other one was the guy that was Pages The Stilt Actions & Political Notes Environmental using community-based issues to understand an issue, people forums as a tool to address need to be active participants in Education needs your environmental issues. Through solving the issue. For instance, the forums, community mem• during an inversion in Salt Lake help! bers identify issues, reach City, understanding the need for consensus, and develop action clean air isn't enough, citizens Funding for environmental plans that address the issues of need to modify their behaviors in education is in serious jeopardy. concern. such a way that they aren't President Bush plans to abolish contributing to the air quality the EPA's Office of Environ• * Develop Leadership in Utah's problems. mental Education, as w/ell as the Environmental Education National EE Training and Community: The goals of the As environmental education Foundation's congressional project are: to develop environ• advocates, it's not enough to authority and grants program. mental education guidelines understand that funding for EE is The reason, the administration that are specific to the state of in jeopardy. YOU must play an calls EE ineffective and goes on Utah; to foster an understanding active role in reversing the to explain that the EPA's EE among providers of environ• administration's budget proposal. program "has supported mental education of the environmental advocacy rather components environmental Call, write or email your represen• than environmental education." education programs should tatives and let them know that include; to develop leadership in environmental education is good Hogwash!!! Utah's environmental education education. (Go to: www.congress. community; and to increase the org/ to get contact information for The administration is clearly skills of environmental educa• your representative.) confused and getting bad tors and the legitimacy of information from biased environmental education itself. In your letter, you might want to sources. One only need review highlight: how EPA grant funds were used * Brushy Creek Field Lab and in 2001 to appreciate how Research Project in Iowa: The * Goals associated with EE inaccurate this reasoning is. project brings educators to a include: knowledge about natural Among those receiving some of natural setting to train them in systems and processes; basic the $2.8 million dollars granted conducting field research with science and math skills; under• through EPA in 2001 were: their students. Teachers learn standing of human processes and new strategies and skills for systems; skills to investigate and * Healthy Homes Education implementing and practicing analyze environmental problems Project in Illinois: Through when they teach students and issues' ability to detect bias training, hands-on demonstra• outside the classroom. and distinguish fact from opinion; tion, and tool kits, residents of understanding the rights and public housing developments in Scary projects eh? Scan the responsibilities of citizens; and Chicago are participating in a others yourself at www.epa.gov/ citizen action skills. program that addresses health enviroed. problems that affect residents * Environmental education is a of impoverished minority YOU CAN HELP EE BY MAKING process that aims to develop an communities because of YOUR VOICE HEARD!!!! environmentally literate citizenry exposure to indoor air pollut• that can compete in our global ants, allergens and pesticides. Environmental education economy; has the skills, knowl• stresses an action component edge, and inclinations to make * Community-Based Environ• (so does democracy). Now is the well-informed choices; and mental Issues Forums in time for YOU to take action. exercises the rights and responsi• Kansas: The goal of the project Environmental education bilities of members of a commu• is to train adult participants in recognizes that it's not enough nity. The Stilt Page 9

* National Project for Excellence in "No environmental victory is For example, if China's per capita Environmental Education is permanent as long as population annual oil consumption rises to the establishing guidelines for the growrth remains unchecked," Flicker per capita level of Taiwan, for development of balanced, scientifi• said. "So much of the environmental example, China alone would be cally accurate, and comprehensive destruction we see across the globe consuming two-thirds of all the oil environmental education programs. today is fallout from the population now being produced in the world. Quality environmental education explosion that has occurred over the Audubon believes that one of the programs facilitate the teaching of last 50 years." most important steps toward science, civics, social studies, tackling looming environmental mathematics, geography, language The State of World Population problems is to invest in effective arts, etc. These guidelines will help 2001 - Footprints and Milestones: international family planning educators develop meaningful Population and Environmental programs. environmental education programs Change shows how poverty, hunger that integrate across and build and environmental degradation are "International family planning is a upon the high standards set by the worsening worldwide. The report core environmental issue," Flicker core disciplines. demonstrates that an important said. "No single investment in solution to these problems is human health, environmental * How your organization or state is slowing global population growth. protection, or economic and working toward developing an political stability can ever match the environmentally literate and active The worldwide decline in migrant investments made in international citizenry. bird species is just one sober family planning." indication of how human population Share this message with others. growth has affected the natural Yet, in inflation-adjusted dollars, US Rally the troops and let our voices world. More than 50 percent of funding for international family be heard. neotropical migrant bird species that planning has declined by one-third are monitored in the eastern United since 1995. Among the 20 leading If you have any questions, you can States and prairie states have been industhalized countries, the US is contact me at either tbrown@usee. in decline for the last three decades. last when international family org or 801/328-1549. This alarming drop is largely due to planning donations are counted as habitat destruction, caused by rapid a percent of Gross National Thank you, rates of population growth both Product. Tim Brown overseas and in the United States. Executive Director, For more information about the Utah Society for Environmental "Like the canary in the coal mine, environment-population connec• Education Chair, the decline of migrant bird species tion, check Audubon's web site at Affiliate Partnership, is clearly telling us that population http://www.audubonpopulation. North American Association for growth is stressing the environment org/. Environmental Education to the breaking point," Flicker said. "Many species of birds and mam• Audubon President John mals have seen their habitats reduced to a fraction of their old Flicker Hails UN Report range, and their numbers decimated Linking Global Popula• by pollution and human predation." tion Growth with Environ• More severe environmental mental Decline problems may lie ahead. Rapid population growth, together Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001 - with the increasing use of natural Audubon President John Flicker resources in the developing world, today hailed the release of the means that the environmental 2001 UN Population Fund report footprint of humans will to double in and praised its focus on the link these regions in the next seven to between population growth and ten years. environmental degradation. Page 10 The Stilt Loca Notes Call for Nominations to Bear Lake CBC were spent birding by all parties combined. Participants this year Bridgerland Audubon Numbers Down included Alicia Austin, Ann Austin, Society Board Forty-eight species of birds Dennis Austin, Jared Austin, Mary- including a total of 1659 Marie Austin, Micah Austin, Eddie If you would like to dominate individuals were observed during Barry, Paul Chase, Barbara Farris, yourself or someone else to the the 2001 Bear Lake Christmas Bird Caitlin Laughlin, Jon Laughlin, Bill BAS Board, call Val Grant, 752- Count. This represents the lowest Masslich, Zane Masslich, Bryce 7572, [email protected] number of individuals seen in the Nielson, and Vincent Reynolds. The young 5 year history of the count efforts of all who participated was Great Salt Lake and is the second lowest number greatly appreciated. of species. Only 38 species were Birding Festival observed on the first year of the Record high counts were observed Please join us again on May 18th count in 1997. The highest for Trumpeter Swan (17), Tundra through the 25th of 2002 for our individual total was 8,196 birds in Swan (6), Gray Partridge (19), 4th annual celebration of the 1998. The most species ever seen Three-toed V\/oodpecker (1), birds of the Great Salt Lake. This was 56 last year. Loggerhead Shrike (2), Song year our festival dinner will Sparrow (10) and American feature keynote speaker Kenn Fifteen people braved the cold, Goldfinch (119). The Three-toed Kaufman. Registration and more grey day covering 204 miles by car, Woodpecker was the most unusual information available at http:// foot and ski. A total of 25 hours species in what was mostly an www.greatsaltlakebirdfest.com/ uneventful count. Also of note was very low numbers of Common Goldeneye at 38 individuals. In the past up to 1021 individuals have been seen loafing and feeding on Bear Lake.

Audubon Banquet Our Spring Banquet speaker will be Dr. Robert Pyle of Washington. He is a pioneering insect conservation• ist, butterfly ecologist, accom• plished author of numerous field guides and natural history books, including the Audubon field guide to butterflies. He will be speaking to us about butterflies. He is a visiting scholar in the English Department Whos€ tracks? at Utah State University this spring semester. The banquet is planned for the 11th of April. More t's a Pelican! information will be in the next St//t. photos bg Cv€ Dovi€S I Welcome to BAS I New Members Renewing Members

James Gessaman Merv & Mae Coover R M & M R Holdredge Jennifer Sinor '1^ Joe Robertson Bryan Dixon Douglas A Johnson Nancy Williams Rebecca S Echols Gary C Lewis J Norton & G Wooton Ms Barbara S Hale R Rati iff John N Ream, Jr

I National Audubon Society I Chapter Membership Application '1^ Yes, I'd like to contribute to Audubon and receive the , BHdqer-Iancl Bridgerland Audubon newsletter, The Stilt, and the A 1 L contacts National AUDUBON magazine, as a: Aucubon New member of the National Audubon Society and Bridgerland Audubon. Renewing member of the National Audubon Society and Bridgerland Audubon. Trustees My check for $ is enclosed ($20 membership dues) 1999- 2002 Jim Cane, 713-4668: Allen Christensen, 258-5018 Name Val Grant 752-7572 ; Dick Hurren, 734-2653 2000- 2003 Mae Coover, 752-8871: Ron Goede, 752-9650 Teri Peery, 753-3249 2001- 2004 Merr Lundahl, 753-1707: Dick Drown 752-3797 . State, ZIP

Bridgerland Audubon Contacts Please make all checks payable to National Audubon President Val Grant, 752-7572, [email protected] Society and send with this card to: National Audubon Society Vice Pres. Bill Masslich, 753-1759, [email protected] Membership Data Center Outings Dick Hurren, 435/734-2653, [email protected] PC Box 51001 Secretary Suzanne Pratt, 713-0197, [email protected] Boulder, CO 80322 1001 Treasurer Susan Drown, 752-3797, [email protected] W-52 Local Chapter Code: 7XCHA Wetlands Alice Lindahl, 753-7744, [email protected] Education Jack Greene, 563-6816, [email protected] Newsletter Georgen Gilliam, 787-4018, [email protected] Note to new National Audubon members: To get on The Stilt news• Circulation Susan Durham, 752-5637, [email protected] letter mailing list without the usual 8 week delay, contact Susan Durham, 753-5637, [email protected]. Hospitality Allen & Gail Christensen, 258-5018, [email protected]

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