[chapter-communicator] Kaler's Pond Audubon Center Officially Joins Centers' Network
- From: "Lynn Tennefoss" <ltennefoss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: audubon-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,chapter-communicator@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, nas-chapter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:59:11 -0400
Kaler's Pond Audubon Center Officially Joins Centers' Network
The newest member of the Audubon New York Centers' network is Kaler's
Pond Audubon Center in the eastern Long Island village of Center
Moriches. The center was originally taken over in 1967 by Moriches
Bay Audubon Society, then enhanced in 1998 through a partnership of
the Audubon Chapter, the Flight 800 Memorial Committee, and the Town
of Brookhaven, as part of the work to honor and remember the victims
of the TWA Flight 800 jetliner crash. The Chapter and the community
together raised the funds to refurbish a building and create a nature
center on the site of the Flight 800 Memorial Gardens.
The hard work of the Chapter, volunteers, and seasonal staff have
developed the center to the point where, at the Chapter's request,
Audubon New York is now taking on the management role. The Chapter
will continue to have an integral role in educational activities as
well as on the Center Board, while the site and its growing programs
will now also benefit from additional resources available from Audubon
New York staff.
Thanks to the efforts of the Moriches Bay Audubon Society and
especially to the hard work of volunteer director Gene Arpino, the
Center has diversified its offerings to include birding, pond ecology,
sketching Long Island wildlife, and Summer Fun kids programs kids, and
has increased attendance each year. Badge programs are provided for
local Girl Scouts, who help maintain trails. The center features the
Gilbert S. Raynor Interpretive Trail, a butterfly garden, a gift shop,
and displays of local plants, wildlife, and minerals.
Moriches Bay is also one of New York's Important Bird Areas. The
20,000 acres of this site are home to a wide variety of nesting beach
and salt marsh species, and supports 16% of the state's population of
endangered Piping Plovers and 18% of the threatened Least Terns that
nest in New York. Being located in this IBA puts the Moriches Bay
Audubon Center in an excellent setting to blend education with
Audubon's conservation work.
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