Posts Tagged ‘Conservation’
Monthly Program: Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary: Protecting and Promoting Southern California Wildlands with Sandy DeSimone
The National Audubon Society’s Starr Ranch Sanctuary, located in Southern Orange County, is one of the few places in Southern California that still looks as it did hundreds of years…
Read MoreWhat’s so Special about Monarch Butterflies? with Bob Allen
The monarch butterfly is an incredible species with a unique natural history. Its population has been declining at great speed in recent years due to a variety of factors, including…
Read MoreMonthly Program: Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay with author Julie Zickefoose
Naturalist/artist/writer Julie Zickefoose thinks of herself as an unsung, minor, rather dirty superhero. Her superpower— saving small, economically worthless wildlife that would otherwise perish. An orphaned jay named Jemima was…
Read MoreThe Cuckoo in the Coal Mine
Yellow-billed Cuckoos (Coccyzus americanus) are fairly common in the eastern U.S. But in the last half-century, they have become rare in the West. Over the past 10 years in San…
Read MoreEndangered Species Day- CANCELLED & POSTPONED FOR A FUTURE DATE
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Read MoreLeConte’s Thrasher: A Desert Specialist on the Edge? – Monthly General Meeting
Living only in sandy washes and dunes in the Southwest, LeConte’s Thrasher is perhaps more specialized for life in the desert than any other bird of North America. Yet it…
Read MoreWorkshop: The Resilient California Native Garden
Join the California Native Plant Society-San Diego Chapter for a special day of speaker presentations from experts in the field of California native gardening. Their Garden Tour this past April…
Read MoreSaving America’s Wild Birds (David Younkman) – Monthly General Meeting
The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is a leading bird conservation organization that works throughout the Western Hemisphere to protect rare and endangered bird species, conserve habitat, and address threats that…
Read MoreYes on Y/SOAR (Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources)
Measure Y (SOAR), a proposition on the November City of Oceanside ballot, simply requires that before agricultural, open space, or parkland can be rezoned to other uses such as dense…
Read MoreMonthly General Meeting – Tricolored Blackbirds
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. It was downhill from there. Glossy black with epaulets of red and white, the Tricolored Blackbird once abounded. In the 19th…
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