Huntsville Audubon Society
PO Box 6818
Huntsville, Texas 77342-6818

A Texas Chapter of the National Audubon Society

Recipient of grant funds from Earth Share Texas

Our meeting will be held on Thursday, January 19, 2012, at Fire Station #2. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. with a light supper, followed by our meeting and program at 7:00. 

Our speaker at the meeting will be Jeff Wozniak, PhD, who works for TRIES at SHSU. (Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies.) His program will be "Understanding the linkages between historic drought, estuarine salinity and coastal marsh habitat quality: impacts for the endangered Whooping Crane.”

Our field trip for January will be a trip to Rockport, TX, on January 28, 2012, for our bi-annual excursion to see the Whooping Cranes. Please call Carol at 936-295-3958 to sign up or for more information.

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Memorial Conservation Fund: Remember, donations can be made to our memorial conservation fund in memory or in honor of anyone. If you are inclined to make a donation, please contact Carol Reed, our treasurer, at 936.295.3958. We have funds for completion of Phase 1 of the Jack Prouty Memorial Bird Blind being built at Huntsville State Park, but more funds will be needed for completion of Phase 2 of the project. Please keep us in mind when making your contributions.

THE 2011 DR. JIMMIE LONG MEMORIAL CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT was held on December 17, 2011. The final tally is not completely compiled, but when it is available, the information will be added to our website and will be included in the next newsletter.

A BIG THANK YOU to all who participated in the count and to all who attended and brought food to our spaghetti dinner.  An EXTRA LARGE THANK YOU to Pauline Blackard for once again hosting the dinner in her beautiful home.