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Volume 30, Issue 3
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HOW TO SAVE OPEN SPACE IN
DOUGLAS COUNTY
Roxanne Miller, Executive Director of the Kansas
Land Trust, Chair ECO2 Commission and member
Douglas County Economic Development Board,
will speak at the November 10th JAS meeting on
“Economic Development Funding of Open Space
Preservation in Lawrence and Douglas County”
Roxanne earned a joint degree in Urban Planning
and Law at KU. The Kansas Land Trust works
to protect and preserve lands of ecological, scenic,
historic, agricultural, or recreational significance
through conservation easements or land donations
transferring responsibility for the land to KLT.
Visit www.klt.org to see their many successes.
As Chair of the ECO2 Commission Roxanne
oversaw the creation of criteria for ranking Open
Space for preservation, methods of preservation,
and proposals for four projects to be implemented
on 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 website www.lawrenceks.org.
The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrence
Senior Center at 8th and Vermont. Come for a
Dutch treat dinner with Roxanne at 6 pm at Zen
Zero, 811 Mass in downtown Lawrence. Please join
us to learn about funding these important projects.
The time to act to preserve Open Space in Douglas
County is now before every last acre is paved for
subdivisions and office parks!
November, 2005
35th Anniversary
 dinner
Over 75 current and former members and friends
of JAS gathered for the 35th Anniversary Dinner
October 13th. Many reminiscences and birding
tales were swapped over a very tasty dinner catered
by the Community Mercantile Deli. Mmm that
apple cake was delicious…and locally grown!
Well deserved Environmental Service Awards
were presented to members who have made out-
standing contributions to the goals of the chapter.
The honorees were Dana Adkins-Heljeson, Richard
Bean, Thor Holmes, Galen Pittman, Mike Watkins
and 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 anecdotes
of the early history of JAS and Stan Senner
gave a very informative talk on the continuing
struggle to preserve Alaskan wild lands. Although
many powerful interests are determined to
plunder Alaska’s resources no matter what the
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
-Merrill Gilfallan, Poet
Review by Beth Schultz
-Citizen Action Opportunities
-Christmas Bird Count-
Mark your Calendar
-12/10 Seed Sale Order Form
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MERRILL GILFILLAN
POET NATURALIST
On September 22, the Jayhawk Audubon
Society joined the KU English Department, the
KU Libraries, and Oread Books in sponsoring
Merrill Gilfallan’s first-time reading in Lawrence.
A master of diverse literary genres—essays,
stories, lyric poetry, epic, Gilfallan always
grounds his writing in the natural world. Although
he has written of his home state, Ohio, and of
Appalachia, the Great Plains appear most often
as the locus for his writing. Of Magpie Rising
(2000), which focuses specifically on Kansas, the
journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature
and the Environment says that it is “one of the
keenest encounters with western spaces since
Meriwether Lewis’s journals.”
35TH ANNIVERSARY CONT.
environmental 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 35th
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!!

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 diverse
group 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 outward
elements of the land—its shapes, its plant life, its
birds . . . His pieces sparkle with invention and
insight when he merges the landscape with inte-
rior voices of history and myth.” Gilfallan, whose
father was a birder, keeps a life-list, and birds
figured significantly and specifically in all of the SAVE THE DATE!!!
works he chose to read. He lives in Boulder,
Colorado now, but would consider moving further
CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT
east, where, he says, “there are more warblers.”
On December 17th, JAS birders will conduct the
Gilfallan concluded his reading with the Lawrence Christmas Bird Count. You needn’t be
“autumn section” from his poetry suite in The an expert to join in. If you are a new birder you
Seasons (2002), noting that his visit to Lawrence will be paired with experienced birders and have
coincided with the first day of autumn. The fall is the chance to learn from the best how to identify
the time, he writes, when “the mind moves into many of our winter birds. Some of the areas are
the heart.” mainly birded by car, so most levels of physical
Beth Schultz ability can be accommodated. Contact Galen
Pittman at gpittman@ku.edu.
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STEWARDSHIP and LEARNING JAS officers & Board Members

President Jennifer Delisle
OPPORTUNITIES Vice President Dayna Carleton
Recording Joyce Wolf
>>Save The Wetlands is sponsoring a clean-up of 31st Secretary
Street on Sunday, 10/30. Meet at the Baker Wetlands main Corresponding Susan Iversen
Secretary
entrance off 31st St. at 12:30. Plan to be done by 2:30.
Treasurer Jennifer Delisle
Orange safety vests and trash bags provided. There will be Member Chapter Chuck & Ruth Herman
crayons and pictures of wetland critters for them to color at Change Report
the boardwalk area. Volunteers to entertain the kids and Membership Dayna Carleton
explain to parents and others that the SLT will go right Promotion
Newsletter Susan Iversen
through that spot would also be helpful.
Editor
--Mike Caron, Save The Wetlands Conservation
(Apologies if you receive the newsletter too late to do this. Program Pamela Chaffee
The notice was not received in time for the Oct. letter. Education Rex Powell
Field Trip
Publicity
>>Endangered Species Act endangered. The Pombo Bill, Electronic Karyn Baker-Riney
Communications
HR 3824, which eliminates habitat protection from the ESA Bird Seed Linda Lips
will be coming before the Senate. Ask Senators Roberts & Sale
Brownback to vote against this disastrous bill. ACT NOW. Birdathon Richard Bean
Coordinator
Christmas Galen Pittman
Bird Count
>>Attend one of three public meetings to learn about the Migratory Phil Wedge
proposed Wakarusa Water Reclamation Facility. The Bird Count
first meeting is at South Jr. HS at 7pm on Thursday 11/3. Eagles Day Ed & Cynthia Shaw
The meetings will take place over 18 months. Call Asst. Hospitality Esther Smith
City Manager Debbie Van Saun at 832-3402 for information. Historian Ron Wolf
Books and Joyce & Ron Wolf
Feeders
Board Member Sharon Ashworth
>>Weeding Watson Park for the Pesticide Free Parks Board Member
Project is over for the year. Hurray for frost! Come to a Board Member Bunnie Watkins
meeting on Monday 11/7 at 7pm at the Lawrence Public Board Member Ed Shaw
Board Member Cynthia Shaw
Library for snacks, discussion of the past summer’s “adopt
a 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 at The mission of the Jayhawk
kbriney@ku.edu and ask to be put on the list serve. Don’t
worry...you won’t be inundated, but you will get more timely Audubon Society is to encourage
notice of special issues. enjoyment of, to promote
understanding of, and to advocate
>>Rails to Trails Information Meeting, 11/10 at the East conservation of the natural world.
Lawrence Community Center. Call City Hall for more info.
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