NEWS & HAPPENINGS
Birding Sink Hollow July 4, 2009
We will be hiking up to Sink Hollow and Gibson Basin. It is a moderate 4.5 mile hike. Bring appropriate footwear, water, a lunch and meet at 8:00 am in the parking lot between Caffe Ibis and the Logan Fire Station (50 East 150 North). Plan on carpooling. more fieldtrips...
KUER Radio West: Selenium and the Great Salt Lake
Selenium is a natural mineral, but it's also a byproduct of refining copper and sewage treatment. In Utah that waste is discharged into locations like the Great Salt Lake where it finds its way into crucial habitat and affects the health of birds. The Utah Division of Water Quality set out to create a new standard for selenium levels in the lake, but critics say it misses the mark and violates an international treaty created to protect migratory birds
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Falcons Hatching in Salt Lake City
Two hatched and getting feathers ...
Webcam: View the famous Peregrine Falcons nest box in Salt Lake City: wildlife.utah.gov/peregrine
Take Your Birding to the Next Level with “Inside Birding”
It’s May, perhaps bird watching’s biggest month, as millions of birds return from the tropics, filling the Northern Hemisphere with summer’s full array of birds. It’s a great time to go bird watching, and Chris Wood and Jessie Barry from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are inviting you to go out with them—in a new free series of web videos, “Inside Birding.”
Conservation easement signed for valuable Bear River wetland area
LOGAN, Utah, April 16, 2009 — Bridgerland Audubon Society and Rocky Mountain Power have reached agreement on a Conservation Easement for approximately 500 acres of Bear River bottomlands near Trenton, Utah. The easement was signed at Bridgerland Audubon Society’s annual banquet April 22, 2009, at the Coppermill Restaurant in downtown Logan. more...
In Memory of - Alice Harper Stokes 1915-2009
Alice Harper Stokes passed away on March 19, 2009.
A memorial service for Alice Stokes was held at the Sunburst Lounge of the Taggart Student Center, Utah State University, on Saturday, May 9, at 3 p.m. A reception followed at the College of Natural Resources, USU. more...
North American Bird Phenology Program
The North American Bird Phenology Program is asking for volunteers to help transcribe over 90 years worth of paper records of bird migration patterns.
The goal is to have a broadly accessible database that can support research activities.
For details on how you can help, click here.
Audubon Newswire
News, Announcements & Events from the Audubon Network this week. more...
Leave No Child Inside - Cache Valley
A new Cache Valley group was formed last June titled “Leave No Child Inside- Cache Valley.”
Its purpose is to confront “Nature Deficit Disorder,” a phrase coined by Richard Louv,
author of the transformative book “Last Child in the Woods.” The group consists of a
cross section of our community. Our main purpose is more...
Protect The Bear River Learn about the importance of this threatened Utah river that runs through the heart of Cache Valley, and see what you can do to preserve it.more...
Cats Indoors! Campaign Millions of birds are killed each year in the United States by domestic cats. The American Bird Conservancy initiated the Cats Indoors program to help end the unnatural deaths and injuries of birds and to educate cat owners on the risks, not only for birds, but for the cats, on allowing them to roam free. more...
