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This year the League of Women Voters of the Pensacola BayArea joined Audubon chapters, including the F.M. Weston
Audubon Society, and other Local Leagues in Northwest
Florida to work with a coalition of environmental and civic
groups to lobby to bring Environmental Resource Permitting
(ERP) to Northwest Florida (NWF). ERP is a law that provides strong
wetland protection and storm water control and has been in effect in
the rest of Florida for ten years.
At the time this bill was passed ten years ago, our NWF legislative
delegation wanted an exemption from the law because our area was
not experiencing the rapid growth of South Florida. That situationchanged with the exponential growth NWF is experiencing, and we
felt we needed the more stringent wetlands protection and storm
water control this bill provides.
We met with our coalition members in Panama City, and decided to
start a campaign sending postcards to all NWF legislators. We wrote
and designed a flyer for handouts at every public meeting we at-
tended. We provided speakers on the subject of ERP to all interested
groups. We met with most of the NWF legislators both before and
during the session.
Sometimes, you get what you ask for. Rep. Evers did introduce an
ERP bill, but it was one that contained a poison pillwording that
pre-empted the rights of county and local governments to have morestringent regulations than ERP if they so chose. Fortunately, Senator
Clary agreed with us that local governments should have the right
to control their own resources, and his Senate bill did not include
this provision. The House version was eventually changed to exclude
this pre-emption language and the House passed it. But during the
rest of the session we had to fend off attempts by the development
communitys lobbyists to insert the language in unrelated bills.
While we are happy an ERP bill finally passed both houses of
the legislature, the bills are not all that we would wish. There is no
permanent funding for ERP in NWF unlike the rest of the state, there
Environmental Resource Permitting
comes to Northwest Florida By Ellen Roston and Carolyn Kolb,Co-Chairs Natural Resources CommitteeLeague of Women Voters of Pensacola
is no limited Bert Harris (personal property rights)
exemption that is available to the rest of the state,
and the wetlands implementation is delayed by one
and a half years. But overall, we feel the bill will give
us better protection than what we currently have.
There are many people whose hard work made
this bill possible, and we would like to give credit to
three people whose knowledge and experience made
this effort successful: Linda Young of the Clean Water
Network, and Rosalie Shaffer and Susie Caplowe of
the Sierra Club. Finally, we recognize with deep gratitude the 35
organizations that joined us in this fight and who gave the effortits broad-based strength.
ORGANIZATIONS THAT JOINED THE FIGHT
Apalachicola Riverkeeper Audubon of Florida Bay County
Audubon Society Choctawhatchee Audubon Society Citizens
for Better Government in Bay County Citizens for the Bay
(Bay County) Clean Water Network of Florida Defenders
of Wildlife Emerald Coastkeeper, Escambia County Citizens
Coalition F. M. Weston Audubon Society Florida Chapter
Sierra Club Florida Consumer Action Network Florida League
of Conservation Voters Florida Public Interest Research Group
Florida Wildlife Federation Friends of Goose Bayou Marsh Friends of Santa Rosa County Gulf Coast Environmental
Defense Gulf Coast Womans Club Conservation Department
Help Save the Apalachicola River Group League of Women
Voters of Bay County, Okaloosa County, Pensacola Bay Area, and
Tallahassee Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation 1000
Friends of Florida, Panhandle Citizens Coalition Panhandle
Progressives Perdido Key Association Population Connection
(Escambia County) Santa Rosa Sound Coalition Save Our
Wetlands Coalition South Gulf County Taxpayers Association
South Walton Community Council St. Andrew Bay Resource
Management Association.
Aug.-Sept. 2006
Vol. XXXIII No. 2
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Field Trips
Saturday, August 26
Naval Live Oaks Native Plants.
James Burkhalter will lead us in search of native
plants and summer wildflowers along the Naval
Live Oaks Nature Trail. Expect easy walking.
Meet at 7:30 a.m. in the Pensacola Visitors
Center parking lot located at the north end of
the Pensacola Bay Bridge or at 8:00 a.m. in the
Naval Live Oaks Visitors Center parking lot. We
plan to finish by noon.
Saturday, September 9
Baldwin County Sod Farms Birding.
Morris Clark will lead us through the sod farms
and adjacent areas in search of early fall
migrants. We hope to see Black-bellied Plovers
in breeding plumage, and Pectoral and Buff-
breasted Sandpipers. Also, with a little luck,
we might see Upland Sandpipers and American
Golden-Plovers. Expect easy walking and possibly
some wet conditions. We plan to eat lunch at a
restaurant. Meet at 7:30 a.m. in the Warrington
Winn-Dixie parking lot located on the east side
of Navy Blvd. south of U.S. Hwy. 98. We plan to
return by mid afternoon.
Saturday, September 23
Downtown Mobile Botanical Foray.
James Burkhalter will lead us on a walk in
downtown Mobile in search of native and
ornamental plants. Expect moderate but easy
walking. Bring a picnic lunch, which we will eat
in one of the lovely parks, or plan to purchase a
fast food lunch from one of the many restaurants
in the downtown area. Meet at 7:30 a.m. in the
Albertsons parking lot on the corner of Nine Mile
Road and Pine Forest Road. We plan to return
early afternoon.
Saturday, October 14
Ft. Morgan & Bon Secour Birding.
See the October-November issue of The Skimmer
for details.CA
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Chapter Meetings
7:00 p.m. at Pensacola Junior College, Main
Campus, Baroco Science Center, Room 2142.
Thursday, August 24
100 Years of Conservation: The Story of
Audubonas presented by the National Audubon
Society. The short film will be followed by a
presentation on the Gulf Coast Urban Education
Initiative, a grant-supported program to enhancethe environmental education of students attending
the Roy Hyatt Environmental Center, with particular
emphasis on birds for the 5th graders. Presenters
will be Jim Brady, Center Chair, and the new
naturalists.
Thursday, September 28
Gaillard Island,a presentation by Roger
Clay, biologist with the Alabama Department of
Conservation and Natural Resources. Gaillard, a spoil
island in Mobile Bay, is home to many breeding
birds that Roger has monitored for ten years. He
will also fill us in on the popular upcoming Alabama
Coastal Birdfest Oct. 19-22.
Board of Directors Meetings
September 7 and October 5
(Open to all members) PJC Downtown Center,
Room 404, 7 p.m. Thursdays.
Other Events
Regional conservation, nature events, volunteer
days, and committee meeting dates can be found
online at www.fmwaudubon.org/. Select Calendar of
Events.
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A
t our annual membership
meeting in May, the as-
sembled chapter members
approved a proposal from
the Nominating Committeeto accommodate the va-
cancy in leadership created by the lack of a
candidate for either president or vice-presi-
dent of FMWAS. This proposal called for a
leadership, or committee of past chapter
presidents, henceforth referred to as Past
Audubon Presidents Council, or PAPC.
The Council is composed of four past
presidents who will provide leadership
continuity for the chapter, without any one
being solely responsible for all duties ofthe presidency. Those four, Peggy Baker,
Jim Brady, Morris Clark, and Annelise
Reunert, have been meeting monthly to
oversee chapter business and operations.
Message from the President.......Jim BradyEach has also agreed to serve as chair
of a chapter committee for the current
year, and each has been serving on the
Board of Directors in some capacity in
recent years. Accordingly, the four are upto date on chapter programs, policies,
operations, and vision, and are prepared
to continue chapter business with
minimal disruption.
The PAPC will function largely by
electronic communication and occasional
meetings. Each member will rotate
chairing the Board of Directors meetings,
and each has agreed to represent the
chapter in state or regional activities.
Your Board of Directors met on June17 for a day-long planning retreat for
the coming year, and has developed a set
of objectives that we believe will be of
interest to our chapter membership and
the goal of our chapter, to actively provide opportunities for
youth in our community to learn an appreciation of the naturalenvironment. Appreciating nature fosters a desire to preserve it,
since nobody will protect that about which they know nothing.
What can you personally do to help plant these seeds andcultivate growing young naturalists? Continue to support our
societys two major educational projects with your donations
and time. Your contributions alone provide Audubon Adventures
materials to classrooms. We are grateful for your past support,
so please Adopt A Classroom by sending in your tax deductible
contribution for the new school year.
Make checks to FMWAS, and send $45 for each classroom you
wish to sponsor to:
Audubon Adventures, FMWAS
P.O. Box 17484
Pensacola, Florida 32522
Please consider volunteering to help with growingnaturalists. The grant FMWAS received for the Hyatt Center will
require many Audubon helpers and volunteers to assist this new
program. See Center Report on page 6.
impact to our community. Our Center
activities are described in another
column in this issue. We know that
goals and objectives for the year cannot
be achieved without your support, andwe urge you to consider how you can
participate in the activities of your
chapter throughout the year.
We invite all members to volunteer
for one of our working committees:
center, conservation, education, field
trips, finance, membership, newsletter,
publicity, and programs. This is an
easy way to learn what really is going
on between meetings and to make a
lasting contribution to our chapter andcommunity. Please contact any of the
four members of the Audubon Presidents
Council with your ideas or to join a
committee.
Henry Thoreau in the essay Walking seemed concerned
that man was losing touch with nature, and that wasin 1862! He wrote, I wish to speak for nature, for
absolute freedom and wildness...to regard man as an
inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member
of society. He wrote, while almost all men feel an attraction
drawing them to Society, few men are attracted strongly to
Nature. I wonder what he would think of us now? Wilderness
in America has almost disappeared. Many children live entirely
without meaningful experiences with Nature. To help fill this
void, it is the primary goal of the Francis M. Weston Audubon
Society to provide hands-on experiences with Nature for the
children of Escambia and Santa Rosa County.Arkansas author, Herschel D. Raney wrote a delightful book,
Snowmelt Timberdoodles in which he entertainingly and thought-
fully describes his excursions growing a naturalist his young
daughter. Dr. Raney vividly relates their adventures encountering
nests of the Greater Roadrunners, discovering frogs with tails in
their own footsteps near a muddy marsh, and observing dragon-
flies on summer flowers. This little girl will always have an
attraction to nature because her father planted the seeds and
daily cultivated her growth as a lifelong naturalist. This is
EDUCATIONBYPEGGY BAKER
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by Bob Duncan
Summertime, when the living is easy...at least for birds. Well, raising young is never easy, I suppose.
The recent drought has been ideal for breeding birds. In Gulf
Breeze, fewer than 14 inches of rain have fallen since the
first of the year. Rainfall totals are: April 1.25, May 3.91
and June 0.33. This compares with about 33 inches for the
same period last year!! The drought has resulted in a bumper
crop of fledglings, seemingly everywhere in our neighbor-
hood. Some species are second brooding already. Young
Cardinals with their dark bills are fixtures at our feeder.
Young Towhees, hardly recognizable with streaked breasts,
dart from dense brush to grab fallen seeds. Mobs ofBlue
Jays, adults and young, hog the feeder. Where were they last
year following Ivan? Did they leave and return now that food
is available? Or, are these winter visitors (some Jay popula-
tions from northern states migrate) that found a niche and
decided to stay? Well never know. Eurasian Collared-Doves
and Mourning Doves feed side-by-side, young birds evident
by duller plumage. Neighborhood newcomers, White-winged
Doves, are there as well, now well-established local breeders,
the young lacking prominent blue eye-rings. Titmice and
Chickadees dart to the feeder to grab a seed when the big
birds are gone. Young Red-bellied Woodpeckers cling to the
feeder sides, storing mouthfuls of seeds before they fly off.
Even the juvenal, dull-plumaged Brown-headed Cowbird is
there. What parent was duped into raising it? Young Brown
Thrashers probe for fallen seeds in the brush near the
feeder. Around the yard, Great-crested Flycatchers hawk
insects for their young, and scream their police-like whistle
while they forage. A drab juvenal plumaged Parula Warbler,
looking nothing like its parents, bathes at the pond. Young
birds seem to be everywhere, a far cry from last year.
Last years deluges were not good for breedingbirds. During heavy rains parents cant forage for food, soyoung birds can starve if days of heavy rains persist. Heavy
downpours can actually drown fledglings in their nests. Last
year was a challenge for local birds, their problems com-
pounded by Ivan-stressed vegetation. Not so this year. Even
though the drought resulted in less seed and insect produc-
tion, birds in residential areas had the advantage of lush
vegetation watered regularly.
Summer is not a time for finding noteworthybirds. However, a Horned Grebe found at the Ft. WaltonSpray Fields on 2 June byRon Smith from south Florida was
very rare for June. A male and a female Rose-breasted Gros-
beak at our feeders on 4 June was only a second June area
record. On 9 June Powers andRosann McLeodspotted nine
Mississippi Kites, local breeders, near the airport where the
persist at this writing. Gray Kingbirds were once regular
breeders at Ft. Pickens. Following Hurricanes Erin and Opal in
1995, the birds abandoned Ft. Pickens, where as many as 16
birds were counted in 1977, and moved to breeding locations
near Office Depot in Gulf Breeze, and downtown Pensacola.
Jan Lloydspotted them downtown on 12 June andLinda
Bogiages found them on 25 June in Gulf Breeze. This is a
truly tropical species, nesting in peninsula Florida regularly
and vacating during the winter. They apparently had not bred
in our area since Hurricane Ivan, although the two reports
cited above are encouraging.Jan LloydandAnn Forster
found a breeding pair at the entrance to Gulf Shores State
Park this season, only the second report for Alabama in five
years. Another pair is breeding on Dauphin Island.
Laid bare by Ivan,Santa Rosa Island is providingample habitat for nesting terns, with over 100 Least Tern
pairs reported along Ft. Pickens road along with a few Snowy
Plovers and about 30 Black Skimmer nests near the fishing
pier. Unlike last year when early tropical storms washed out
the nests, this years nesting appears to be successful.
The Skimmerwelcomes
reports of noteworthy
birds. If you have some-
thing to report, please call
Bob or Lucy Duncan
at 932-4792.
F I E L D M N O T E S
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The petroleum crunchwill have an impact
on birding through
the lifetimes of most
of us and beyond.
In the good old days
when foreign tours
seemed too extrava-
gant, the savvy birder just jumped in his car and took off for Texas
or California or Arizona or any of the popular birding hotspots. Now
those trips require a second look and conversations as: If we get 20
miles to the gallon, and the trip to Texas Hill Country and back willbe 1500 miles and gas is $2.99...Holy mackerel.
The solutions offered by politicians range from bad to worse, and
the scientific answers arent much better. The automobile companies
who are doggedly stuck in the past are refusing to even consider pro-
ducing electric cars and are price-gouging for the hybrids. President
Bush is enthusiastic about hydrogen technology. Think von Hinden-
burg. Anyone who has watched the Hindenburg burn on Engineer-
ing Disasters on the History Channel is up to speed on hydrogen
and the hydrogen for cars will be under pressure. It will be a tough
sell. Big agriculture is pushing ethanol from corn. The fact is thatcorn requires so much fertilizer that growing it uses more petroleum
than it will replace. Think fuel at $4.00 per gallon. The ethanol-ist
argument is that Brazil has gone ethanol successfully. That is true. It
took ten years of near economic catastrophe but, to their credit, they
stuck it out. The difference is that they produce ethanol from sugar
cane. Our country has three sugar cane regions: southern Florida,
southern Louisiana, and Puerto Rico. If you like the Everglades, you
should visit now because increased sugar cane production will be the
death knell for this amazing ecosystem. We are abundantly aware
of the ecological mess Louisiana is in but it still hosts millions of
birds in the winter and cane growing will use up what is left of thewetlands. Puerto Rico is already growing sugar cane everywhere it can
be grown.
What we are going to need is a serious education initiative.
Consumers are going to have to look at driving little efficient cars (as
in Brazil) and manufacturers are going to have to build them. I cant
even think about the politicians and special interest lobbies without
needing an anger management session. The transition from what we
do now to a better system is going to be unbelievably rancorous. I
hope we survive it.
TRIPPINGONGas
The Conservation Committee (Alice Harris,
Jan Lloyd, Peggy Baker, and Annelise
Reunert) met on July 11. Five items were
discussedthe Panhandle Regional Plan,
the Beach and Rooftop Nesting Bird Project, how
members Conservation Concerns should be addressed
(and our response to others for support) and localhabitat conservation/code enforcement.
Regional Plan. Until recently, Audubon of
Florida had no Regional Plan for the Panhandle,
although five plans were in place for the remainder
of the state. Forming the sixth Regional Plan, the Panhandle
is definitely recognized now for several reasons, including
our critically important support of the Hyatt Environmental
Center. A Regional Conservation Committee meets quarterly
to discuss Panhandle issues. Annelise, Peggy and Alice plan
to attend future meetings as Annelise has done in the past.
Beach Nesting Bird Project. Brad Smith will be invited
to meet with us in winter to help us put together a solid plan
for next Spring. When that is in place, we will seek volunteers
to help with this project in the 2007 nesting season.
Conservation concerns of our members. It wa
decided that the Conservation Committee should
receive all requests for involvement in conservation
issues, whether for something as simple as a resolution
or letter of support, opposition of something, or a
request for greater involvement. The committee wil
decide whether the requested assistance is appropriatefor our Chapter, taking into consideration the likelihood
of effective participation along with our overall goal
and interests. (Of course, individuals are encouraged
to determine their own level of involvement, if any
in any project or cause.). Please bring to the attention of the
Conservation Chair, Alice Harris, or any committee member, any
conservation matter with which we might want to be involved
Local Habitat Conservation. The committee decided
to look into the activities, rules and procedures of Code
Enforcement regarding local habitats such as vacant oundeveloped land. Jan Lloyd will research this issue with the
goal of preserving natural local environments.
The next quarterly conservation committee meeting
will be in October 2006. All members are welcome to attend
Contact Alice for information.
by Ann Forster
COns e rvat
i o nbyAlice Harris
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Audubon Adventuresis the environmental educationprogram for children in grades 4 to 6. Developed by
environmental educators, it presents basic facts about birds
and wildlife in four separate
editions, each a colorful nature
publication for students. It comes
with complete teacher support
materials, guides, activities, and
tips for outdoor study. See the
Education column for how you
can participate by sponsoring
classrooms in our area.
Think before cutting those trees!The State of Floridaauthorized a study of the effect of the treed environment,and its effects on wind pressures on buildings. It showed
that the Panhandles treed habitat reduces wind pressures
by approximately 30 percent as compared to more open
landscapes along other Florida coastal areas.
Pledge your support! Please take a moment to consideryour role in FMWAS. Would you like to pledge monetary
support, or volunteer in one of many capacities? The
following committees eagerly seek others to share the
satisfaction and fun of service to the community throughthis chapter. The Hyatt Center, Education, Conservation, Field
Trips, Newsletter, Publicity, Programs, Membership, Finance...
all committees need regular input and new ideas, and the
people power to implement them. Call any board member
today for more information. And Thanks!
Bald Birds. In fall, weoften receive inquiries
about bald birds,
especially Northern
Cardinals and Blue Jays.When birds molt in late
summer and fall, they
occasionally drop all
head feathers at once.
Many of these may be juveniles undergoing their first molt. It
is also possible that feather mites or lice cause the baldness.
Luckily, these birds regrow their feathers in a few weeks. For
more information, visit www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw and click
on About Birds and Bird Feeding.
N E W S a n d V I E W S
An Inconvenient Truth is the film everyone is talkingabout. If the majority of the worlds scientists are right, we
have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could
send our entire planets climate system into a tail-spin of epi
destruction, well beyond anything we have ever experienceda catastrophe of our own making. With wit, smarts, and
hope, this film brings home Al Gores persuasive argument
that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a
political issuerather, it is the biggest moral challenge
facing our global civilization.
For information on the Alabama CoastalBirdFest 2006-Oct. 19-22 in Fairhope, AL., go to www.alabamacoastalbirdfest.com. Organizers need guides this year
If you are interested in doing this or know someone who can
help - contact Roger Clay (626-5153 ) or Fran Morley (251-929-0922). The guide gets a free T-shirt and cap, and if a
spouse or significant other wants to go along on the tour as a
host or hostess, they get the tour free.
Fuel Saving Tips
Proper tire inflation insures
peak fuel efficiency.
If your work hours are
flexible, commute during non
bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Walk or ride a bike for short
trips, benefiting your body and
savingfuel.
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Skimmingby Jere French
Hyatt Center Reportby Jim Brady
With the departure of Jennifer Kleinbaum to a new position in
New Jersey, the Center Committee is working to replace her and
to recruit a second naturalist who will implement the Gulf Coast
Urban Education Initiative. This project, described briefly in the
last Skimmer, will target the delivery of bird-related programs
to 2nd and 5th graders in ten elementary schools in Escambia
County, as well as the enhancement of facilities at Roy Hyatt
Environmental Center to increase the emphasis on birds. We
established positions at Audubon of Florida, and at this writing,
and interviewed several applicants for the two positions. We also
have been regularly interacting with the project managers at
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the funding agency sup-
porting our project.
We note with great enthusiasm, and some sense of loss, that
Kim Walden, the teacher at RHEC, has assumed the K-12 Science
Coordinator position. We trust that our special relationship with
this dedicated teacher will continue to grow as her new job in-
cludes responsibility for the operation of RHEC. Kim was integral
to the planning of the Gulf Coast Urban Education Initiative, and
with her support, the project will be successful in each objective.
Another key to the success of this project will be more
participation by our chapter membership in the delivery of the
new curriculum to the classrooms of ten targeted schools. A small
but potent cadre of volunteers participated in Saturday morning
activities at the center last year.
Please consider joiningus in this project. Call
Jim Brady at 456-5083 orMo Michel at 433-3151.Look on our website:fmwaudubon.org for aschedule of volunteerSaturdays at RHEC eachmonth.Join us at our Augustmembership meeting tohear the details of theGulf Coast UrbanEducation Initiative.
he Brown Thrashers that annually nest in the
garden yaupon got a late start this season. First
they chose a denser patch of scrub, and then
dithered for more than a month before settling
down to the task at hand. We think it was due
to the bullying Blue Jaysboth the late start and the more
secretive nesting site.
The jays burst onto the stage, five fiercely noisy birds
claiming title to trees, shrubs, and gleanings, like a West
Side Story street gang. Three were mere fledglings, but
a demanding brood they were. One young flapper made
persistent assaults on my office window, trying to get a
foothold on the glass, impossible of course, and a little
daunting to watch. What was the fool thing thinking? That
I was his mama? And now its July and theyre still at this
fledging business. Im watching through the same window
as these mostly-grown layabouts are still doing the feed-me-
now wing-flutter begging dance and chorus.
Meanwhile the thrashers, avoiding the bully birds, at
last commenced procreation in earnest, skulking through the
brush, probing the garden, canvassing for food and fiber.
Its the low time of year for birdingunless one
is content with cardinals, jays, mockingbirds, wrens,
chickadees, and titmice. The occasional Osprey passes
overhead, and all those Laughing Gulls sullenly await
autumn. We had a family of Northern
Rough-winged Swallows hanging about
recently, feeding fledglings. A pair
of Green Herons arrive at our seawall
nearly every morning, looking for
breakfast. A Great Blue struts through
the garden on odd afternoons. Beau,
our brave poodle, barks at it, but
otherwise holds his ground. The fewresident species that we see regularly
are like old friends weve gotten to
know well enough. And we dont really mind the limited list.
Migrants should be coming through soon, and yes,
theyre entertaining and they speak in different tongues, but
theyre just tourists after all, here for the spoils and then
its off again, ta ta, see you in the movies. But our steadfast
neighbors managed to stay with us through it all. Well,
where else would they want to be?
T
Like all good
neighbors birds
have to learn
our ways and
suffer putting
up with us, as
we with them.
Neat website
Florida horticultural plants recommended by zone,
water, soil and sunlight requirements:
http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/fyn/list.pdf
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C H A P T E R C O N T A C TS
Presidents Council Peggy Baker ................. 934-3242
Jim Brady ....................456-5083
Morris Clark ..................968-5498
Annelise Reunert ..........492-4389
Recording Secretary Jan Lloyd ....................453-1660
Corresponding Secretary Ann Forster ..................456-4421
Publicity Alice Harris ..................478-2161
Ellen Roston ................453-0730Treasurer Becky Grass ..................455-9666
Membership Annelise Reunert ..........492-4389
Field Trips Morris Clark ..................968-5498
Conservation Alice Harris ..................478-2161
Education Peggy Baker ................. 934-3242
SkimmerEditor Lucy Duncan ................932-4792
SkimmerArt Director Lynn Gould
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