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CALENDAR
Simple directions to any of the locations mentioned on
the calendar.
Our mission is to promote an awareness and appreciation of
nature, to preserve and protect wildlife and natural ecosystems, and to
encourage responsible environmental stewardship.
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be no General Meeting or Board Meeting in July or August |
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BIRDATHON -
To support our Birdathon fund-raiser for local and regional bird habitat, click here for donation form
and information. The Birdathon is the annual major fund-raising
campaign by our chapter. Our goals are to raise $3000 for EMAS
Scholarships, Audubon North Carolina Coastal Island Sanctuaries,
and Mountain Important Bird Areas
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| February
2010 |
3 |
Saturday |
Beaver
Lake Bird Walk - Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary 9:00 am.Map link to Beaver Lake |
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12-15 |
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Great Backyard Bird Count - Link to National site for more information. Local bird walks and information can be found here. |
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20 |
Saturday |
Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary Workday: 9:00 am - Noon |
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21 |
Sunday |
Rain date for workday: 2:00 pm -5:00 pm |
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| March
2010 |
3 |
Wednesday |
Board Meeting Botanical Gardens - All members welcome! 6:00 pm |
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6 |
Saturday |
Beaver
Lake Bird Walk - Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary 9:00 am.Map link to Beaver Lake |
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16 |
Tuesday |
General Meeting: Bill Steiner - The Life & Art of John James Audubon 7:00 PM
Reuter Center, Room 206 UNCA Bill will give us a lively lecture on John Audubon and the history of his prints. In addition to many modern facsimile prints, Bill will bring with him one or more original Audubon prints.
An accomplished entomologist, herpetologist, and birdwatcher, he and his wife own an extensive and varied collection of Audu-bon prints. Bill is author of Audubon Art Prints—A Collector’s Guide to Every Edition, published in 2003 by the University of South Carolina Press. He served as an advisor and on-air contri-butor to John James Audubon—Drawn from Nature, a document-tary film for Public Television’s “American Masters” Series. |
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20 |
Saturday |
Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary Workday: 9:00 am - Noon |
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21 |
Sunday |
Rain date for workday: 2:00 pm -5:00 pm |
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| April
2010 |
20 |
Tuesday |
General Meeting: Marcus B. Simpson, Jr. The Joy of Discovery—18th & 19th Century Naturalists Explorations of the Blue Ridge Mountains 7:00 PM Reuter Center, Room 206, UNCA Mark Simpson, physician, naturalist, and author of Birds of the Blue Ridge Mountains, discusses exploration and discoveries of naturalists such as William Bartram, Andre Michaux, John Fraser, Moses Ashley Curtis, Asa Gray, Edward Drinker Cope, William Brewster, and John Cairns and the impact they had on understanding the ecology of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Find out why these early naturalists were so interested in this area, where they went, what they discovered and what they missed, and how their field work here affected their lives.
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Note: There will
be no general meetings in December, January, February, July or August
and no Board meeting in January, July or August. Happy New
Year!
General Meetings are usually held
the third Tuesday of the month in September thru November and March thru
June. There are no meetings in December, January, July or August.
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Location |
Directions |
UNCA - Reuter Center |
If you are coming from I-19/23/26 take exit 25, the UNCA exit. If you are coming from the North, take a left at the light at the end of the ramp, and take another left at the second light onto Campus Drive. If you are coming from the South, take a right at the stop sign at the end of the exit ramp, and take a left at the first light onto Campus Drive. Once you are on Campus Drive, go 0.5 mile going over 4 speed bumps to the top of the hill. At the stop sign take a left (there is a small sign pointing left to the Reuter Center), and go less than 100 yards to the driveway on the right, which is the entrance to the Reuter Center parking lot. Drive straight into the upper parking lot. Enter the Reuter Center through the doors at the large overhang. Room 206 is on your left. If the upper parking lot should be full, continue through the upper parking lot and drive around to the lower parking lot. Enter the building there and use either the elevator or the very long staircase to tget to the second floor. Click here for more information about the Reuter Center. Map link to UNCA - Reuter Center On the map link, Division Street and Thompson Street need to be updated as they have been renamed to Campus Drive. |
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Botanical Gardens at Asheville |
Near UNCA, on W.T. Weaver
Boulevard, just east of Broadway.
Map link to Botanical Gardens at Asheville |
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Beaver Lake Sanctuary |
Beaver Lake - We meet at
the gazebo at the sanctuary on Merrimon Avenue.
Map link to Beaver Lake |
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TRASH TALK: People sometimes
ask me, why isn't there a garbage can at the Sanctuary? Here are some
reasons:
1. A trash can attracts trash,
lots of it, and raccoons and possums, too.
2. A volunteer would have to haul
it away.
3. People would get the idea the
Sanctuary is meant for picnicking. While we don't mind it, we don't encourage
it. (And please don't feed the wildlife.)
4. People should make sure their
cans and bottles are recycled.
5. Your mother doesn't work there
-- so clean up after yourself, please (and your pet).
Len Pardue, Coordinator,
Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary
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