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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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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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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Audubon California and local chapters in California have long felt that nature education is conservation. What this means is that if we want to protect the state’s magnificent natural treasures into the future, we need to ensure that the next generation of Californians appreciates the great outdoors as much as we do. In an effort [...]

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Great TV news piece about the San Diego Audubon Society’s program that uses children’s are to raise awareness about the Western Snowy Plover on the beach. We’re proud to have helped secure funding for this great project from Audubon’s Pennies for the Planet Program and the Morrisse Family Foundation.
 
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The Golden Gate Audubon Society is rallying its members and partners this week to encourage the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to shoot down a proposed bridge over the Yosemite Slough wetlands restoration area. If approved, the bridge will span the Yosemite Slough wetlands restoration area and introduce pollution, traffic, food waste, lights, and noise into [...]

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Nice article in Bay Nature about the return of the Western Snowy Plover to beaches this summer for its annual breeding. Photo by Mike Baird.
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A while back, we mentioned that a number of California Audubon chapters were participating in a program to use children’s art on the beach to encourage protection of the Western Snowy Plover. Several of these chapters have sponsored art shows of the work that the kids have produced. Los Angeles Audubon is sharing some of [...]

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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is scaling back its plans to test Owens Lake for potential solar power development.
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Right now, we have a chance to influence a historic, one-time opportunity to protect seabirds in California. As you read this, a small group of coastal stakeholders from the Oregon border to Point Arena are hammering out a network of marine protected areas through the California Marine Life Protection Act.  They’ve recently released their latest [...]

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So conservationists and farmers don’t always get along — that’s not news, certainly not in the Central Valley. But as Audubon California has learned with its various landowner programs over the past few years, there are plenty of opportunities for the two to partner on projects to have benefits for both agriculture and the environment. [...]

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Audubon California was sorry to learn of the passing of Elmer Aldrich, a major force for birds and conservation in the Sacramento area. Aldrich was an early member and dynamic president of the Sacramento Audubon Society. and is well known for laying out the idea for the American River Parkway in the chapter’s newsletter in [...]

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Twenty-four volunteers took part in last Saturday’s Owens Lake Spring Big Day, organized by Eastern Sierra Audubon. Audubon California had people on the ground, and they joined others from around the state. The group counted 70 species, and 39,344 birds in total. Big numbers were America Avocet, California Gull, American White Pelican, Western Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Eared [...]

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While birding is a fantastic way to experience nature firsthand, but increasingly bird enthusiasts have found themselves questioning whether driving from vantage point to vantage point is actually counterproductive for the natural resources we hold in such high esteem. In other words, if you’re burning gas to watch birds, aren’t you just contributing to the [...]

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Great story about the San Diego Audubon Society’s program that enlists kids to help save the Western Snowy Plover. Audubon California helped line up funding.
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