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MeetingsMeeting Locations
General Meetings:
West Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
5904 W. Cholla St, (corner of 59th and Cholla)
Glendale, AZ 85304
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Board Meetings:
West Valley Unitarian
Universalist Church
5904 W. Cholla St, (corner of 59th and Cholla)
Glendale, AZ 85304
2012 Meeting Schedule
February
1, 2012
Board
Meeting 7:00 p.m.
All SAS members welcome
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February 8, 2012
Social Time 6:30 p.m.
Meeting and Program 7:00 p.m.
Kendall Kroesen - Gardening for Birds
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March 14, 2012
Social Time 6:30 p.m.
Meeting and Program 7:00 p.m.
David and Diane Reesor—Australia
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April 11, 2012
Social Time 6:30 p.m.
Meeting and Program 7:00 p.m.
Members - Adventures in Bird Watching
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May 9, 2012
Social Time 6:30 p.m.
Meeting and Program 7:00 p.m.
Tom Gaskill - Egypt
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February 8, 2012
Social Time 6:30 p.m.
Meeting and Program 7:00 p.m.
Kendall Kroesen - Gardening for Birds
Kendall
grew up in Southern California where his mother identified
common yard birds for him, but he didn’t take up birding until after
earning a BA in anthropology at the University of California,
Riverside.
After participating in a sea turtle conservation project in northeast
Mexico, he bought a bird book and binoculars.
He practiced birding when he could during three years as a salvage archaeologist and then in graduate school at the University of California, San Diego where he earned a PhD in cultural anthropology.
He moved to Tucson and did volunteer work for the Tucson Audubon Society. He joined the staff in February 2002, and during his first four years worked with the habitat restoration program and helped improve communications, especially via the website and newsletter.
In 2006, he became Habitat Restoration Program Manager. His responsibilities included oversight of restoration work, grant writing, planning and new project implementation. Recently, his title was changed to Habitats Program Manager because, in addition to the duties above, he is helping Tucson Audubon create an urban-focused sustainability program. In this program, Tucson Audubon is working with businesses, homeowners and landscape designers to better define the characteristics of urban landscapes that make them ecological sustainable and useful for declining populations of birds.
He attended the Hog Island Audubon Chapter Leadership Training in 2008, and there he met our own Karen LaFrance which is how we knew we wanted him for a speaker.
Tonight's program is not simply to talk about plants that attract wildlife, but about the general principles of landscaping that make them ecologically more sustainable and supportive of birds. He will talk a little about the Tucson Audubon programs and how they’re trying to orient them more toward urban populations. There are a variety of ecological issues that we have in our urban areas (declining birds, energy use, carbon footprint, water, non-point source pollution, etc.). These issues can be addressed through landscaping. He will introduce some basic principles and show example landscapes with a scorecard as to how well they measure up to the principles. He’s not a landscape designer and he makes the point that the principles he gives are generalized and don’t result in any one aesthetic approach, but can be used by landscape designers in creating a range of different landscape aesthetics.
He practiced birding when he could during three years as a salvage archaeologist and then in graduate school at the University of California, San Diego where he earned a PhD in cultural anthropology.
He moved to Tucson and did volunteer work for the Tucson Audubon Society. He joined the staff in February 2002, and during his first four years worked with the habitat restoration program and helped improve communications, especially via the website and newsletter.
In 2006, he became Habitat Restoration Program Manager. His responsibilities included oversight of restoration work, grant writing, planning and new project implementation. Recently, his title was changed to Habitats Program Manager because, in addition to the duties above, he is helping Tucson Audubon create an urban-focused sustainability program. In this program, Tucson Audubon is working with businesses, homeowners and landscape designers to better define the characteristics of urban landscapes that make them ecological sustainable and useful for declining populations of birds.
He attended the Hog Island Audubon Chapter Leadership Training in 2008, and there he met our own Karen LaFrance which is how we knew we wanted him for a speaker.
Tonight's program is not simply to talk about plants that attract wildlife, but about the general principles of landscaping that make them ecologically more sustainable and supportive of birds. He will talk a little about the Tucson Audubon programs and how they’re trying to orient them more toward urban populations. There are a variety of ecological issues that we have in our urban areas (declining birds, energy use, carbon footprint, water, non-point source pollution, etc.). These issues can be addressed through landscaping. He will introduce some basic principles and show example landscapes with a scorecard as to how well they measure up to the principles. He’s not a landscape designer and he makes the point that the principles he gives are generalized and don’t result in any one aesthetic approach, but can be used by landscape designers in creating a range of different landscape aesthetics.
March 14, 2012
Social Time 6:30 p.m.
Meeting and Program 7:00 p.m.
David and Diane Reesor—Australia
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April 11, 2012
Social Time 6:30 p.m.
Meeting and Program 7:00 p.m.
Members - Adventures in Bird Watching
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May 9, 2012
Social Time 6:30 p.m.
Meeting and Program 7:00 p.m.
Tom Gaskill - Egypt
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