Victoria Legg and Carla Miller joined our Board meeting with an interest to becoming Board members.
Our two craft sales that offered the annual dinner craft items netted over $1500.00. Thank you Sally Nole and the Annual Dinner committee. The annual appeal letter is out and bringing in a good response.
Elizabeth Rodrick presented a Power Point on the Puget Sound Conservation Blueprint, a new effort sponsored by Audubon WA with assistance from National Audubon. Using a mapping tool with spatial data layers, the steering committee, of which Elizabeth is a member, looked for priority habitat that supported marine birds, waterfowl, and shorebirds. Of the sixteen possible sites in the Puget Sound with the most potential for conservation, Eld and Totten Inlets are being considered as a pilot project. Having this within our chapter’s jurisdiction will involve evaluation of potential pieces of property on which to focus and finding partner organizations with which to work. If we go forward, we could do bird surveys and monitoring, site adoption and stewardship, advocacy efforts with government agencies in support of restoration, and assistance with hydrology and other scientific studies.
Our two Christmas Bird Counts are proceeding – one in Olympia and the other around Centralia.
Elizabeth, Bob Wadsworth and Carla Miller attended a National Audubon virtual training on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion recently. Elizabeth would like to form an Ad Hoc committee on this in January.
Kim Adelson will be offering a virtual Beginner’s Birding class in March with four evening classes.
The Conservation Committee continues its work on the county issues of Mineral Land designation and the Growth Management Act review. Five BHAS members, with Sam Merrill as the lead, will meet in December via Zoom with Senator Hunt and Representatives Doglio and Dolan to discuss Audubon’s priority issues in the coming legislative session.
