SAS News

Upcoming Meeting

Shorebird Migration
Thursday, May 8, 7:00 PM
By Alvaro Jaramillo

Meetings are at the San Mateo Garden Center.

Complete Program details here.

LEARN TO BE A NATURE PHOTO PRO WITH WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER BRYANT HICHWA

Join Audubon Canyon Ranch Board President Bryant Hichwa for two special classes this spring and learn while supporting ACR programs. Become skilled at the use of digital photographic equipment in the field and capture stunning wildlife images during your travels.

Classes will include tutorials on key camera settings; how to best use natural lighting; how to capture wildlife in the field; close up/macro photography of spring wildflowers; and a demonstration of digiscoping. Bring your camera.

Introduction to Digital Cameras
9 am to 2 pm
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Bouverie Preserve.

Intermediate Class
9 am to 2 pm
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Bolinas Lagoon Preserve.

Fee $300 each or $500 for the two -
every dollar will be donated to Audubon Canyon Ranch.

To register, contact Leslie at 415/868-9244 or via email "leslie AT egret.org"

Sequoia Audubon was one of the founding members of Audubon Canyon Ranch and 2 of our members are still on the Board of Directors for ACR.

Wavecrest: The Long Battle Ends

by Gary Deghi, Vice President of Sequoia Audubon.

On the morning of August 16, 2007, I received an email informing me that the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) had reached agreement on the terms for purchase of the area in Half Moon Bay known as Wavecrest. I must admit that I was somewhat overcome with emotion. This undeveloped area between the Ocean Colony and Arleta Park neighborhoods has been the focus of development wars for years, and I have helped Sequoia Audubon Society (SAS) publicize the valuable natural resources of this area since I moved to Half Moon Bay in the summer of 1988. So what is so special about Wavecrest?...

Read or download the full article (pdf file.)

Kern River Valley Spring Nature Festival
April 30 - May 6,  2008
at
Audubon's Kern River Preserve
Weldon, Kernville, Wofford Heights, California

You are invited to the Kern River Valley Spring Nature Festival from April 30 - May 6, 2008, which is held annually at Audubon's Kern River Preserve in Weldon and Circle Park in Kernville!

This festival celebrates the biodiversity of the Kern River Valley and Southern Sierra Nevada. Come visit the Southern Sierra Nevada; home to over 200 nesting species of birds, over 100 species of mammals, over 130 species of butterflies, and over 2000 species of plants.

The great diversity is a result of the area being at the intersection of 3 of North America's 10 Floristic Provinces (Great Basin Desert Province, Mojave Desert sub-province of the Sonoran Desert Province, and Californian Province).

Click here for full information.