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Frank Gill Quoted in USA Today
on Ivory Bill Woodpeckers
(April 10, 2002)
Audubon's
Walker Golder Honored by Partners in Flight
(April 4, 2002)
Michael
P. Dombeck to Receive Audubon Medal
(March 11, 2002)
David Sibley Joins
Audubon
(January 24, 2002)
Frank Gill is quoted in USA Today in an article on Ivory Bill Woodpeckers.
The piece can be found in the Life Section of USA Today pg. 7D, or through the link below:Search for rare bird sheds light on logging, forests
Visit www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/science/enviro/2002-04-10-forest.htm
Audubon's
Walker Golder Honored by Partners in Flight
Recognized
for Outstanding Bird Conservation Work on North Carolina Coast
Contact: John Bianchi
212/979-3026
jbianchi@audubon.org
(Willmington, NC) - Last week, Partners in Flight recognized Walker Golder, deputy director of Audubon North Carolina, for his bird conservation work, it was announced today by National Audubon Society. Partners in Flight is a collective effort of more than 200 agencies and organizations including National Audubon Society, and is committed to conserving birds and their habitats across the Western Hemisphere.
Golder, in addition to serving as Audubon North Carolina’s deputy director, manages Audubon’s North Carolina Coastal Sanctuaries. It is for his work with the birds of the North Carolina coast that he was honored with Partners in Flight’s Individual Award for Stewardship. The award was presented to Golder at the 2002 International Partners in Flight Meeting, Saturday, March 23rd at Monterrey California.
“I am proud and personally pleased that Walker Golder has been recognized by Partners In Flight with a national award for the vital bird conservation and stewardship work he has undertaken in this state,” said Chris Canfield, executive director of Audubon North Carolina. “This award is not only a testament to Walker's work in North Carolina but also to the high regard his colleagues nationally have for him.”
Only 6-10 of individual merit awards in four categories are given by Partners in Flight nationally each year. Audubon’s Director of Bird Conservation Jeff Wells said, “This is a great honor, and Walker deserves it. He has done outstanding work, yet has never sought recognition for his accomplishments. Audubon’s Bird Conservation department and the whole Audubon family give Walker our heartiest congratulations.”
National Audubon Society conserves and restores natural ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife, and their habitats, for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity.
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Audubon Society to Honor Michael P. Dombeck with Award For Environmental Conservation
New York, NY - National Audubon Society will name Dr. Michael P. Dombeck, former Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, the 2002 recipient of the Audubon Medal for his dedication to managing federal lands and natural resources in the long-term public interest. The 46th Audubon Medal Dinner will be co-hosted by the Houston Audubon Society, Audubon Texas and the National Audubon Society. The award will be presented to Dr. Dombeck on Saturday March 16th at The Four Seasons Hotel, in Houston, Texas at 7 o’clock in the evening.
The Audubon Medal is awarded for great individual achievement in conservation or environmental protection. This distinguished honor recognizes either a single, extraordinary feat or a record of significant contributions. Past recipients include Walt Disney, Rachel Carson, Roger Tory Peterson, Robert Redford, Ted Turner, Anita Roddick, Jimmy Carter, Edward O. Wilson, Laurence S. Rockefeller, Julie Packard, William Conway, and Chandler Robbins.
Dr. Dombeck was Chief of the U.S. Forest Service from 1997-2001, after an impressive federal career in natural resources that began in 1978 as a fisheries biologist in Wisconsin. In his position as head of the Forest Service, Dombeck was responsible for 191 million acres of land, or about 8 percent of the total area of the United States. He led a fundamental change in philosophical guidelines for the Service in timber and forest management.
“Michael Dombeck is the greatest leader of the U.S. Forest Service since Gifford Pinchot,” said National Audubon Society President John Flicker. “He is a visionary leader, and he fought passionately for the health and diversity of our National Forests and Wilderness Areas. Mike Dombeck is one of the most respected conservationists of our time. His innovative leadership restored our faith in the ability of the U.S. Forest Service to protect watershed health, undertake sustainable forest ecosystem management, and protect millions of acres of roadless areas.”
Dombeck successfully thrust the Forest Service into a conservation leadership role, focusing on water and watershed management, and achieved a monumental national conservation policy with the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. During the planning process for the road moratorium, the Service received more than 1.6 billion official comments and held more than 600 public hearings throughout the United States - thanks to Dombeck’s unprecedented effort to reach the American people and reflect their interest in forest heritage.
Among his many accomplishments, Dombeck received the 2001 Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive for his former role as chief of the USDA Forest Service. He has authored and edited numerous popular and scholarly publications, most notably the book “Watershed Restoration: Principles and Practices,” and has made frequent national and international scientific presentations.
This year’s Audubon Medal Dinner is being held in conjunction with the National Audubon Society’s Board of Directors quarterly meeting, March 15-17 at the Omni Houston Hotel. The gala dinner will feature a silent auction to benefit the Houston Audubon Society.
Items for sale include a pastel painting of a Great Egret - the National Audubon Society logo - by Houston-area artist James Offeman; a limited edition leather-bound book about Antarctica by authors Pat and Rosemary Keogh; and a script of an episode of the television program “Frasier” signed by the entire cast. The episode will be broadcast on NBC-TV during May sweeps period.
Michael Dombeck was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin in 1948. He earned a Ph.D. in fisheries biology at Iowa State University. He is now Professor of Global Environmental Management at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, leading a program that aims to develop and share world-class educational programs in natural resources and environmental management for building a sustainable future locally and abroad. Dombeck is also a University of Wisconsin System Fellow of Global Conservation, and an Adjunct Professor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He and his wife, Patricia, reside in Plover, Wisconsin. They have one daughter, Mary, who attends college in Virginia.
Founded in 1905 and supported by 600,000 members in more than 500 chapters throughout the Americas, the National Audubon Society conserves and restores natural ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife, and their habitats, for the benefit of humanity and the Earth's biological diversity.
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Audubon magazine is proud to announce its newest Contributing Editor, David Sibley, author of the best-selling The Sibley Guide to Birds and the creator of the organization's new logo. David illustrated our March/April 2002 feature on shorebird conservation, teaming up with Field Editor Kenn Kaufman, who wrote the captions. David's distinctive artwork in the magazine will grace an upcoming package on the Audubon Watchlist and many other bird conservation stories. Together with Kenn, Audubon now has the best one-two punch since Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig formed the Yankees' Murderers' Row.
David Seideman