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Official opening for restored wetlands in Bay Area to be held tomorrow

September 7th, 2010 · by gfrost

Senator Dianne Feinstein will be among the dignataries present tomorrow to celebrate the opening of a 237-acre restored wetland area near the Bay Area’s Dumbarton Bridge. Tens of thousands of birds are expected to take advantage of the site during this year’s coming fall migration.
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Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · S.F. Bay

We’re at the first World Seabird Conference in Victoria, Canada

September 7th, 2010 · by gfrost

So what are a bunch of researchers and conservationists from Audubon California doing in Victoria, Canada? Well, they’re attending the first ever World Seabird Conference to promote new research on West Coast marine important bird areas. Working closely with our Audubon colleagues from The National Audubon Society, Audubon Alaska, Nature Canada, and host of top [...]

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Tags: Audubon California · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Federal Policy · Graham Chisholm · Important Bird Areas · seabirds

Protecting breeding grebes on Clear Lake

September 5th, 2010 · by gfrost

Great article in the Lake County Record-Bee this week encouragine local boaters to steer clear of nest Western and Clark’s Grebes. We’re working with the excellent Redbud Audubon chapter and local officials to spread the word.
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Tags: Audubon Chapters · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Birding · Conservation research

Audubon chapter files suit over proposed bridge over wetland

September 3rd, 2010 · by gfrost

The Golden Gate Audubon Society yesterday joined with the local Sierra Club chapter to challenge the city of San Francisco’s plans to build a bridge over the Yosemite Slough wetlands. The bridge is part of an effort to redevelop Candlestick Point.
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Tags: Audubon Chapters · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · S.F. Bay

Time to stop the unnecessary killing of birds at Altamont Pass

September 2nd, 2010 · by gfrost

Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm and Nell Newman, founder of Newman’s Own Organics and a noted raptor advocate, have an opinion piece in tomorrow’s San Francisco Chronicle demanding that the County of Alameda get serious about addressing the problem of bird kills at the Altamont Pass wind energy farm. It is estimated that somewhere [...]

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Tags: Alternative energy · Audubon California · Audubon Watchlist · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Conservation research · Graham Chisholm · Local Policy · S.F. Bay

Audubon wins $200K for Gulf recovery efforts

September 2nd, 2010 · by gfrost

Big thanks go out to all of you who voted for Audubon in American Express Members Project over the last couple of months. Audubon won, and will receive $200,000 for its recovery work in the Gulf.
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Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · National Audubon Society · Pollution

Murres and more – late summer wildlife outside the Golden Gate

August 31st, 2010 · by aweinstein

The seas were rough, the marine layer hung over us, but the wildlife was inspiring Sunday at the Farallon Islands, our local Galapagos, and beyond to the edge of the continental shelf break where predators and prey aggregate in the late spring and summer following strong coastal upwelling.  This feeding hotspot attracts large numbers of [...]

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Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Important Bird Areas · seabirds

San Joaquin River flowing to the Pacific, even during summer

August 31st, 2010 · by gfrost

River advocates are cheering news that the flow of the newly restored San Joaquin River is continuing well into summer:

On the Valley’s west side near Los Banos, something strange is happening this summer in the San Joaquin River — water. The river has continued to flow to the Pacific Ocean throughout the first summer after [...]

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Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Water issues

Golden Gate Audubon helping promote Lights Out for Birds in the Bay Area

August 30th, 2010 · by gfrost

The Golden Gate Audubon Society is partnering with Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the San Francisco Department of the Environment announce the fall Lights Out for Birds. The program enables building owners, managers and tenants to save energy and money while protecting migratory birds. Lights Out for Birds participants turn off unnecessary building lights during the [...]

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Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Conservation research · Local Policy · S.F. Bay · urban conservation

EPA swiftly rejects call to ban lead ammunition

August 27th, 2010 · by gfrost

The Environmental Protection Agency surprised all by rejecting a petition from environmental groups that the agency move to ban lead ammunition. Lead ammunition has been proven to poison birds and other wildlife in the wild.
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Important wetlands protected in So. California

August 27th, 2010 · by gfrost

The State Wildlife Conservation board yesterday approved the purchase of the Hellman Ranch wetlands, adding its 100 acres to about 62 other acres already set aside for restoration. The wetlands are part of a corridor of important bird habitat along the Long Beach-Orange County shoreline. (photo by Daryl Supernaw)
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Tags: Audubon Chapters · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Graham Chisholm · Important Bird Areas · urban conservation

Plastic bags are seabird killers

August 26th, 2010 · by gfrost

Plastic bags are seabird killers. They have an incredible impact on our environment. Heal the Bay put out this great ironic video to illustrate this:

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Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Pollution · seabirds

Napa-Sonoma marsh restoration’s last phase begins

August 26th, 2010 · by gfrost

One of the largest wetlands restoration projects in U.S. history is entering its last phase in the North San Francisco Bay.
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Fire Watch training in Orange County

August 23rd, 2010 · by gfrost

So just about everyone understands that fire is a normal, usually beneficial force in a nature ecosystem. But that’s only when fire is allowed to come and go naturally. In parts of California, fires have been hitting more frequently than normal, and buring much more intensely. These types of frequent, intense fires can actually change [...]

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Tags: Bird Habitat · Important Bird Areas · Starr Ranch Sanctuary

Fish and Game Commission OKs continued hunting of declining Greater Sage-Grouse

August 18th, 2010 · by gfrost

Representatives of Audubon California today expressed deep disappointment at this afternoon’s decision by the California Fish & Game Commission to continue allowing hunting for Greater Sage-Grouse, despite a recent finding by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that its recent declines make it worthy of protection under the Endangered Species Act. In response to a [...]

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Tags: Audubon California · Audubon Watchlist · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Conservation research · Endangered Species Act · State Policy