[chapter-communicator] Audubon In the News - December 22, 2005
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Audubon In the News
December 22, 2005
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chandler Robbins, a past Audubon Medal winner who has helped shape Citizen
Science and the Christmas Bird Count, will be included in a CBS News Sunday
Morning segment profiling people who have made personal contributions to the
environment entitled "Gifts to Ourselves." Chandler's piece will air on Sunday,
December 25 around 9:15 a.m. EST and will also feature Audubon's Christmas Bird
Count - however, please note that as this segment schedule is subject to change
up to the last minute, you might want to watch the entire CBS News Sunday
Morning program, which will air from 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. EST. For other time
zones, check local listings.
Geoff LeBaron, Audubon's Christmas Bird Count director, will be a featured
guest on the NPR program "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday" on Friday,
December 23 at 2:00 p.m. EST. To listen live, go to
<http://www.sciencefriday.com/>. Geoff will be discussing the Christmas Bird
Count.
AUDUBON CENTERS AND SANCTUARIES
Hay Part of Education Building (Article about the new education building at the
Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, now under construction, located southwest
of Lincoln, Nebraska)
<http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/12/12/local/doc439cd6835326e219732152.txt>
Hawaii Experts Try to Save Plant From Bug (Hawaii researchers and plant experts
are trying to prevent a mysterious bug from attacking the wiliwili - the
National Tropical Botanical Garden and the Waimea Valley Audubon Center house
the world's largest collections of the plant)
<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1411625>
AUDUBON CHAPTERS
Audubon Honors Couples' Efforts with Local Parks (Members of the South
Bend-Elkhart Audubon Society in Indiana receive National Audubon Society's
Great Egret Award)
<http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051219/News01/512190354/-1/NEWS01/CAT=News01>
Machine Politics (Organizations in Utah, including Bridgerland Audubon Society,
file lawsuit regarding decision to re-open parts of Logan Canyon to
snowmobiling)
<http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2005/12/18/news/news01.txt>
Audubon Society Turning Trash into Cash (Coastal Georgia Audubon Society
collects and recycles newspapers and uses the proceeds to fund special
projects, including supplying local fifth grade classes with copies of Audubon
Adventures)
<http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/front/9300411776854.php>
AUDUBON STATE PROGRAMS
Birds, Navy Jets Fight for N.C. Air Space (Statement by Audubon North Carolina
cited in article about test flights on a proposed Navy landing field in North
Carolina - one of the flights was stopped due to migratory birds in the flight
path)
<http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=96629&ran=125765>
(registration required)
Speakers Oppose LNG Plan (Public hearing where speakers, including Tom Baptist,
executive director of Audubon Connecticut, voiced their opposition to a
proposed natural gas plant in Long Island Sound)
<http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-lng1130.artnov30,0,7658482.story?coll=hc-headlines-local>
Christmas Bird Count is a Kind of Gift (Audubon's Christmas Bird Count in
Connecticut)
<http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-nor.getout5dec14,0,2625106.story>
Sound Foundation for the Future (Letter to the Editor regarding the Long Island
Sound Stewardship Act of 2005 from David J. Miller, executive director of
Audubon New York)
<http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/letters/ny-satletters4554064dec17,0,1276431.story>
Troubled Birds (Audubon Alaska's new Watch List of troubled birds)
<http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/121805/loc_20051218001.shtml>
(registration required)
BIRDS AND BIRDING
Searchers Hunt 'Elvis' Woodpecker (Intensive six-month search begins for the
Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Audubon's Senior Ornithologist, Frank Gill, quoted)
<http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/12/11/elvis.woodpecker.reut/>
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY PROGRAMS
How to Deliver a Very Green Christmas (Audubon's suggestions for
environmentally-friendly gifts cited in article about having a green holiday)
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1217envgifts17.html>
(short registration required)
Gifts to Charities (Audubon's holiday cards included in story focusing on
giving to charity this holiday season)
<http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/374736p-318443c.html>
Winging It: Feathered Friends Part of Curriculum (Milwaukee's Hartford Ave.
University K-8 school features a curriculum that uses birds to teach - program
includes having students contribute to eBird, a project of Audubon and The
Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/dec05/376813.asp> (registration required)
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