About BHAS

Black Hills Audubon Society is a chapter of the National Audubon Society and represents Lewis, Mason, and Thurston counties in the state of Washington. It is an all-volunteer-based, non-profit organization whose 1,300+ members share interests in birds and other wildlife, their habitats, and natural history. Our goals are to promote environmental education and recreation and to maintain and protect our ecosystems for future generations.

We work with the state Audubon office and National Audubon.

BOARD MEMBERS

OFFICERS:

	President: Kathleen Snyder pres@blackhills-audubon.org The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.“ ~ Lady Bird Johnson
	Vice-president: Kim Adelson vpres@blackhills-audubon.org “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.“ ~Gary Snyder
	Treasurer: Nancy Hubly treasurer@blackhills-audubon.org “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.“ ~Albert Einstein
	Secretary: Bruce Jacobs secretary-bhas@blackhills-audubon.org “Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of Evolution.” ~Theodosius Dabzhansky

MEMBERS AT LARGE:

	Janet DeLapp “When we align ourselves with the Golden Ratio we tap into the inherent beauty and balance of the universe.” ~Mario Livio
	Rachel Hudson “…we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.“ ~Hayao Miyazaki
	Sam Merrill “We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” ~Aldo Leopold
	Charlotte Persons “From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
	Sheila Rodriguez “The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.” ~Nancy Newhall
	Bob Wadsworth “Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.” ~Aldo Leopold