Volume 30, Issue 3 November, 2005
www.jayhawkaudubon.org
35th Anniversary
dinner
Over 75 current and former members and friendsof JAS gathered for the 35
th
Anniversary Dinner October 13
th
. Many reminiscences and birdingtales were swapped over a very tasty dinner catered by the Community Mercantile Deli. Mmm thatapple cake was delicious…and locally grown!Well deserved Environmental Service Awardswere presented to members who have made out-standing contributions to the goals of the chapter.The honorees were Dana Adkins-Heljeson, RichardBean, Thor Holmes, Galen Pittman, Mike Watkinsand Phil Wedge. JAS recognized them for their above and beyond support of such key chapter activities as Seed Sales, Birdathon, Eagle Day,Christmas Bird Count and Migratory Bird Count.Ron Klataske charmed us with anecdotesof the early history of JAS and Stan Senner gave a very informative talk on the continuingstruggle to preserve Alaskan wild lands. Althoughmany powerful interests are determined to plunder Alaska’s resources no matter what the
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
-Merrill Gilfallan, PoetReview by Beth Schultz-Citizen Action Opportunities-Christmas Bird Count-Mark your Calendar-12/10 Seed Sale Order Form
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SHOW US THE MONEY!>>>
HOW TO SAVE
OPEN SPACE INDOUGLAS COUNTY
Roxanne Miller, Executive Director of the KansasLand Trust, Chair ECO2 Commission and member Douglas County Economic Development Board,will speak at the November 10
th
JAS meeting on
“
Economic Development Funding of Open SpacePreservation in Lawrence and Douglas County”Roxanne earned a joint degree in Urban Planningand Law at KU. The Kansas Land Trust worksto protect and preserve lands of ecological, scenic,historic, agricultural, or recreational significancethrough conservation easements or land donationstransferring responsibility for the land to KLT.Visitwww.klt.orgto see their many successes.As Chair of the ECO2 Commission Roxanneoversaw the creation of criteria for ranking OpenSpace for preservation, methods of preservation,and proposals for four projects to be implementedon an equity basis with industrial park develop-ment. Text of the ECO2 presentation at the Octo- ber 11th City Commission meeting is in the min-utes on the city’s websitewww.lawrenceks.org.The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at the LawrenceSenior Center at 8
th
and Vermont. Come for aDutch treat dinner with Roxanne at 6 pm at ZenZero, 811 Mass in downtown Lawrence. Please joinus to learn about funding these important projects.The time to act to preserve Open Space in DouglasCounty is now before every last acre is paved for subdivisions and office parks!
JAYHAWK AUDUBON SOCIETY
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MERRILL GILFILLANPOET NATURALIST
On September 22, the Jayhawk AudubonSociety joined the KU English Department, theKU Libraries, and Oread Books in sponsoringMerrill Gilfallan’s first-time reading in Lawrence.A master of diverse literary genres—essays,stories, lyric poetry, epic, Gilfallan alwaysgrounds his writing in the natural world. Althoughhe has written of his home state, Ohio, and of Appalachia, the Great Plains appear most oftenas the locus for his writing. Of
Magpie Rising
(2000), which focuses specifically on Kansas, the journal on
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literatureand the Environment
says that it is “one of thekeenest encounters with western spaces sinceMeriwether Lewis’s journals.”During his reading at the KU Union, Gil-fallan not only shared several pieces from
Magpie Rising
, but also read three short stories from
Grasshopper Falls
(2000) as well as a diversegroup of poems from his poetry volumes. All of his writing confirms the comment made by the
Kansas City Star
regarding
Magpie Rising
:“Gilfallan is a careful observer of the outwardelements of the land—its shapes, its plant life, its birds . . . His pieces sparkle with invention andinsight when he merges the landscape with inte-rior voices of history and myth.” Gilfallan, whosefather was a birder, keeps a life-list, and birdsfigured significantly and specifically in all of theworks he chose to read. He lives in Boulder,Colorado now, but would consider moving further east, where, he says, “there are more warblers.”Gilfallan concluded his reading with the“autumn section” from his poetry suite in
TheSeasons
(2002), noting that his visit to Lawrencecoincided with the first day of autumn. The fall isthe time, he writes, when “the mind moves intothe heart.”Beth Schultzenvironmental cost, Stan is still confident that if we the public keep opposing disastrous, short-sighted projects, Alaska will remain “Forever Wild”. Please keep up your letters and calls to our senators and congressmen asking them to vote“NO” on environmentally destructive bills.Thank you for a remarkable evening to the 35
th
Anniversary Dinner organizing committee:Dayna Carleton, Pam Chaffee, Jennifer Delisle,Linda Lips, Ed & Cynthia Shaw & Joyce Wolf .Mark your calendars now for the 50th in 2020!!
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35TH ANNIVERSARY CONT.
SAVE THE DATE!!!
CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT
On December 17th, JAS birders will conduct theLawrence Christmas Bird Count. You needn’t bean expert to join in. If you are a new birder youwill be paired with experienced birders and havethe chance to learn from the best how to identifymany of our winter birds.
Some of the areas aremainly birded by car, so most levels of physicalability can be accommodated. Contact GalenPittman at gpittman@ku.edu.
JAYHAWK AUDUBON SOCIETY
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JAS officers & Board Members
President Jennifer Delisle
Vice President
Dayna Carleton
Recording Joyce Wolf Secretary
Corresponding Susan IversenSecretary
Treasurer Jennifer Delisle
Member Chapter Chuck & Ruth HermanChange Report
Membership Dayna CarletonPromotion
Newsletter Susan Iversen Editor Conservation
Program Pamela Chaffee
Education Rex Powell
Field Trip
Publicity
Electronic Karyn Baker-RineyCommunications
Bird Seed Linda LipsSale
Birdathon Richard BeanCoordinator
Christmas Galen Pittman Bird Count
Migratory Phil WedgeBird Count
Eagles Day Ed & Cynthia Shaw
Hospitality Esther Smith
Historian Ron Wolf
Books and Joyce & Ron Wolf Feeders
Board Member Sharon Ashworth
Board Member
Board Member Bunnie Watkins
Board Member Ed Shaw
Board Member Cynthia Shaw
The mission of the JayhawkAudubon Society is to encourageenjoyment of, to promoteunderstanding of, and to advocateconservation of the
natural world.
STEWARDSHIP and LEARNINGOPPORTUNITIES
>>
Save The Wetlands
is sponsoring a
clean-up of 31stStreet
on Sunday, 10/30. Meet at the Baker Wetlands mainentrance off 31st St. at 12:30. Plan to be done by 2:30.Orange safety vests and trash bags provided. There will becrayons and pictures of wetland critters for them to color atthe boardwalk area. Volunteers to entertain the kids andexplain to parents and others that the SLT will go
rightthrough
that spot would also be helpful.--Mike Caron, Save The Wetlands(Apologies if you receive the newsletter too late to do this.The notice was not received in time for the Oct. letter.>>
Endangered Species Act
endangered. The Pombo Bill,HR 3824, which eliminates habitat protection from the ESAwill be coming before the Senate. Ask Senators Roberts &Brownback to vote against this disastrous bill.
ACT NOW.
>>
Attend one of three public meetings to learn about the proposed
Wakarusa
Water Reclamation Facility
. Thefirst meeting is at South Jr. HS at 7pm on Thursday 11/3.The meetings will take place over 18 months. Call Asst.City Manager Debbie Van Saun at 832-3402 for information.>>
Weeding Watson Park for the Pesticide
Free ParksProject
is over for the year. Hurray for frost! Come to ameeting on Monday 11/7 at 7pm at the Lawrence PublicLibrary for snacks, discussion of the past summer’s “adopta flower bed program” and planning for next year.>>
Join the JAS list serve
and get volunteer and other up-dates in your inbox. Send your e-mail address to our Elec-tronic Communication Chair, Karen Baker-Riney atkbriney@ku.eduand ask to be put on the list serve. Don’tworry...you won’t be inundated, but you will get more timelynotice of special issues.>>
Rails to Trails Information Meeting
, 11/10 at the EastLawrence Community Center. Call City Hall for more info.
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