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Audubon Leaders: Mike Daulton
Legislative Director
 With nearly a decade of experience in Audubon's Public Policy Division in Washington, DC, Mike Daulton is a veteran of legislative battles over the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Endangered Species Act. Daulton has broad expertise in energy issues, public lands, wildlife refuges, wind power and migratory birds. He has testified before Congress on a wide range of issues, including conservation programs to protect migratory songbirds, hurricane impacts on coastal wildlife refuges, and impacts of wind turbines on birds and wildlife.
Daulton chairs the Policy Steering Committee of the Endangered Species Coalition, of which the National Audubon Society is a member organization.
Daulton also represents Audubon on the federal Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee chartered to provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary of the Interior on developing effective measures to avoid or minimize impacts to wildlife and their habitats related to land-based wind energy facilities. The committee formed in 2007 is expected to provide recommendations to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne by October 2009.
He has fought against "repeated attempts to try to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, despite its status as a wildlife sanctuary and its extraordinary value for wildlife like caribou, polar bears, and migratory birds," he told a reporter in 2006. "Members of Congress like Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens along with President Bush have been relentless in calls for opening up this natural treasure to oil drilling."
Daulton also is a veteran of the longstanding battle in Congress over offshore drilling that would threaten America's beaches and coastlines. "It makes no sense for states to put our important beaches, fisheries and coastal habitats and multi-billion dollar tourism economies at such risk for so little gain," he said in June 2008. Read the full press release here.
Daulton is a native of San Diego, California and holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Duke University and a B.S. in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution from the University of California, San Diego.
He has been quoted in dozens of news outlets, among them Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Dow Jones and USA Today.
He also has been interviewed on NPR and various TV News programs.
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