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What's New

Next bird walk: Wednesday June 23, Methow Valley, 7:30 AM. See details on the Birding page.

Please tell us where you like to bird in your area, so we can add that to the Birding page, too! Please send to: NCW Audubon webmaster

Read the June issue of The Wild Phlox

Check out the Events page for upcoming talks, classes, and conferences in our region:
  • July 25-31: Bird banding Camp with Puget Sound Bird Observatory

Help Audubon Save the Gulf: Vote Now!
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We need your assistance to help Audubon continue its vital work in response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The American Express Members Project is offering Audubon a special grant for its conservation efforts. We need your help--and that of your families, coworkers, and friends--to secure the votes needed to qualify. Start by visiting http://www.takepart.com/membersproject/vote to register. Then, vote for Audubon today and once a week through August 21.

The top vote-getting group in each category of this American Express effort will receive a $200,000 donation for its work. So, remember to vote up to once a week, using home, office and other addresses. Your votes will definitely count!

 

Gulf Oil Spill: Continuing Updates

Wilson's Plover

Photo: Bill Stripling, courtesy of the National Audubon Society

Audubon continues to monitor and report on the increasing harm to Louisiana coast wildlife, as oil from the massive Deepwater Horizon spill washes relentlessly ashore.

To follow their updates, please see:

 
 

Audubon Launches National Volunteer Response Center

Gulf disaster take action

 

A new national volunteer center is gearing up to channel the energies of a growing force of volunteers seeking to help birds, wildlife, and habitat weather the assault of the Gulf oil spill.

The National Audubon Society opened the new facility in Moss Point, Mississippi on Monday June 7, and organizers are being deployed to affected areas in three other coastal states to contact, coordinate and mobilize more than 22,000 volunteers who have signed up with Audubon.

If you would like to receive updates on Audubon's response efforts and be notified when volunteer opportunities arise, please fill out our volunteer registration form.

North Central Washington Audubon Society, a local chapter of the National Audubon Society, is dedicated to furthering the knowledge and the conservation of the environment of North Central Washington, our Nation, and the World.

E mail: info@ncwaudubon.org

 

Goals, Hopes, Aspirations, and Plans of the North Central Washington Audubon Society, from chapter president Mark Oswood:

  • We promote resource decisions based on the best available data. Many times, differences dissolve and solutions coagulate when people have good information.
    We try to be honest brokers in environmental conflicts. Our aim is to serve the same function as mucous in the human body; lubricate and trap foreign particles.
    Sustainable economies are the only road into the future. Ecology and economy derive from the same root word.
    We do birds – watch them, count them, protect them. Birds are one of the grandest expressions of life.
    We believe in citizen science and life-long learning. We can all be scholars.
  • We are “outside consultants” – leading field trips, holding outdoor classes, and doing “dirt work.” A meadow of spring flowers, ravens doing acrobatics, and a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis are best experienced viscerally, not virtually.

 
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We invite you to join the North Central Washington Audubon Society. As a member of our local chapter, you will receive our newsletter, The Wild Phlox, as well as Audubon magazine. Dues help support our monthly programs, education outreach for local schoolchildren, conservation efforts and more. As a member of National Audubon, your membership payment helps monitor bird populations and to conserve wetlands, and the many other challenging conservation programs Audubon undertakes to ensure a healthier environment