A Bird's Eye View

Audubon Society of Omaha

A Chapter of National Audubon Society

January 2002 Vol. 31 No. 1

The World and Wonders of Antarctica

By Clem Klaphake

If we never get any snow or ice this winter, here is a chance to sit back and enjoy a slide presentation on research, wildlife, snow and ice without having to bundle up or even feel a cold wind in our faces. Kolene Krysl, the speaker for the January 10 meeting will show slides and discuss her two months of research in the McMurdo Sound of Antarctica.

Kolene's research involved the study of Weddell Seals (Leptony-chotes weddellii) gathering in colonies to breed and give birth to pups. Several colonies in the McMurdo Sound area have been studied since 1960.

The team of researchers that Kolene worked with from the University of Minnesota were interested in whether the spacing of individual females in relation to access holes along the tidal cracks limits the number of pups that can be produced at a given colony.

With the new GPS technology and underwater television, much new information is being gathered about seal foraging behavior as well as how the females teach their pups to swim.

Kolene assisted in the use of GPS and underwater television to correlate the spatial distances of mother and pups on the surface of the colony with their underwater locations. Along with scientists from the University of Minnesota, two from the Oceanic Institute in Japan worked on this project.

In addition to the seal behavior research, Kolene will discuss such physical conditions as glaciers, icebergs, fast-ice, pack-ice, and sea-ice. She will show slides of other wildlife she encountered while doing research.

Kolene has been teaching both middle school and elementary science classes for the past 15 years. Six of those years were in California and the last seven in the Millard School Dis

trict. She received her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Nebraska-Kearney in 1987 and has worked on the study of T. Bemachii, an Antarctic fish, with Dr. David Petzel of Creighton University.

Join us for a trip WAY down under near the South Pole on Thursday, January 10, 7:30 pm, Hanscom Park Methodist Church, 4444 Frances—a great way to spend a January evening with friends and warm company.

The general public is invited. A short business meeting will follow the program, concluding with hot coffee, cookies and conversation.

Birding at Backyard Feeders in January

Our next field trip will be held Saturday, January 12. Because of possible foul weather this time of year, we will stay close to home and visit some feeders in the area.

We will meet at the Fontenelle Forest Visitor Center at 8:00 a.m, view their feeder activity, and go on from

By Dick Rasmussen

there. We'll assemble at 4503 South 16th St. around 11:30 a.m. and have lunch with Carole Rasmussen, who has agreed to serve us.

The feeding frenzy (at the feeders) usually gets underway about 11:45. Wear some warm clothing and bring binoculars and a hot beverage if you

wish. Questions or comments may be directed to Dick Rasmussen at 731-3939.

If you would like for us to visit your feeders or if you have any unusual birds coming to your feeders, please let me know.

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Scholarly Notes

by Eric Scholar

Nebraska Breeding Bird Atlas Now Available

By Neal Ratzlaff

Year-End Wrap-up

I will use this first column of the year to bring you up to date on a few items that occurred in the last few months of 2001 you may or may not be aware of.

First, the bird seed sale did very well this year. We made close to $8,500, which was almost $1,000 more than last year. Thanks are due the numerous people who put countless hours into making the sale a success.

Sally Hansen, Chairperson of the Sale, deserves special appreciation for bringing off this event so successfully. Duane Bright, Neal and Izen Ratzlaff, and Barbara Sennentz generously made their garage spaces available. Heron Haven was an additional pick-up site, thanks to all those who worked there. To Jerry Toll, deployer of volunteers, Nelli Falzgraf, Neal Ratzlaff, Laurine Blankenau, and all those who loaded and unloaded sacks of seed— thank you.

As you know, this is our major fundraiser of the year, and we greatly appreciate the help.

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During the summer and fall, seeds were collected from Audubon's Prairie Preserve, formerly known as Jensen Prairie. About 75 pounds of seeds were hand collected, and about 750 pounds of seeds were harvested with a combine.

The seeds were hand sown by two volunteers on about three acres of the old field north of the virgin prairie. The goal is to expand the area of the prairie to a total of 12 acres. This spring 3 acres were planted with a drill using seed collected last year. Many hours were also spent removing weeds.

This past spring we conducted a controlled burn, which resulted in many flowers blooming for the first time in years, among them Turk's Cap Lily, a prized wildflower beauty.

Next year we will need volunteers to help control the weeds and collect seed in early summer. Many thanks to Glenn Pollock and the people who helped him maintain the prairie.

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At Heron Haven a flood control project with the help of a $10,000 grant has been initiated by Ione Werthman with the help of Larry Shackman and Paul Kardell.

You may now purchase the long-awaited Nebraska Breeding Bird Atlas, which provides breeding range distribution maps and one-page accounts of 191 species identified as breeding during the six-year survey period. The author has included additional comments on distribution, breeding status, and habitat use.

Significant valuable data on nests, clutch size, egg dates and young are provided when available, supplemented by historical records and information from neighboring states.

The Atlas was sponsored jointly by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the book's publisher. The project coordinator and author compiled over 26,000 observations submitted by 125 volunteers. Funding and in-kind services from Game and Parks made publication of the book possible.

Price from Steve Lamphere at ASO meetings is $25 plus tax. Bookstore price will be the same.To order by mail, send a check for $29 payable to NOU to Nebraska Ornithologists Librarian, c/o University of Nebraska State Museum, W-436 Nebraska Hall, Lincoln NE 68588-0514.

Birding for the Beginner Class Starts January 19

By Ione Werthman

A six-week "Birding for the Beginner" class will be offered again to the public through Metro Community College.

Starting January 19, the classes will be held at Heron Haven, 11809 Old Maple Road, each Saturday morning, 9:00-12:00.

Following the six-week session, a three-week, more advanced course on warblers and shorebirds will be offered. ASO members Eunice Levisay, Betty Allen, Clem Klaphake, Jenny Henricksen, Ruth Green and Ione Werthman will conduct the classes.

Registration must be made through Metro Community College after January 1 when their non-credit class schedule is available.

January Events

3 (Thur) Evening with Bird Club

7 (Mon) Conservation Meeting

9 (Wed) Board Meeting

10 (Thur) General Meeting

12 (Sat) Field Trip

16 (Wed Nature Study

19 (Sat) Metro Birding Class Begins

The Omaha Raptor Team

Water, Water Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink .......Maybe Not

By Nelli Falzgraf

Drinking seawater could be lethal for ocean-living birds if they didn't eliminate excess salts, yet seabirds such as petrels and some gulls can drink water that is 3 percent salt and not become dehydrated. These and other marine birds have nasal glands between the eyes that can excrete fluids with salt content as high as 5 percent.

For much more about gulls, please join Rick Schmid on Wednesday, January 16, 7:00 p.m. at the Rookery next to Heron Haven, to learn more about gulls.

Rick has served several years as program and field trip chair for the Birding Club. Grab your bird guide and join us. Questions? 292-9687.

A Fine Winter's Eve with the Birding Club

You are invited to join the Fontenelle Nature Association Birding Club for a festive evening at the Forest Learning Center 7 p.m. Thursday, January 3. A friendly fire, a heartwarming video entitled "Arctic Dance: the Life of Mardi Murie," hot drinks, yummy desserts, and hearty conversation will be featured.

It's a super kickoff for the new year, if you videotape the Rose Bowl game. For questions call Howard Mattix, 896-0352, or Nelli Falzgraf, 292-9687.

By Alison O'Connor

The Omaha Raptor Team has finished another successful year of programs and public appearances, and we are most grateful to all the people and organizations who helped support us. Without the donations we receive, we can't keep our feathered educators fed and housed.

Speaking of housing, we had a bit of a dream come true in 2001. We obtained a matching grant from the Scott Foundation for $2,500. In turn, an anonymous Audubon donor matched the grant.

These funds, combined with some from other donations, allowed us to have two outside aviaries built at Heron Haven. We hope to offer people the chance to see raptors at the end of their guided hike.

The year 2001 brought three new educational birds to the team, and with these new aviaries, we hope we may acquire one or two more birds. The Omaha Raptor Team's outlook incorporates some great ideas for the public, but we need continued support.

This past year it cost over $3,000 to feed our birds. We spent another $2,500 on housing.

This doesn't take into account our other operating costs. It would take a lot of programs to support these expenses. It is the private donations we receive that are so necessary for our continued success.

If we have had the good fortune of meeting you or educating your children or grandchildren, please remember that very moment when you came face to face with our raptors.

Keep in mind the wide-eyed excitement from the children recounting what they learned about our feathered friends. The Omaha Raptor Team certainly appreciates your thoughtfulness and continued support.

We wish you all the best for 2002!

Birdline

For an update on the sightings in the state, call 292-5325.

Report your sightings after listening to the tape.

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Environmental/ Legislative Action By Ione Werthman

Pest or Protected Non-Game Species?

It was a joy to read in a recent World-Herald story that citizens in Lynch, Nebraska, population 269, along the Missouri River in the northern part of the state, are capitalizing on Lewis and Clark's discovery of prairie dogs in their area. They hope to promote the Old Baldy prairie dog town outside of Lynch as a tourist attraction.

In 1999 the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced it would conduct a study to determine whether the Black-tailed Prairie Dog should be listed as a threatened non-game species.

Information the Agency received in 2000 indicated that 5 billion of these prairie dogs once burrowed and stood watch over more than 100 million acres of prairie. Today's estimates are that less than 10 million of these animals survive on no more than 750,000 acres.

Some say that 10 million of the critters are more than enough, but others respond that when America was discovered, there were over 3 billion-plus Passenger Pigeons, which went extinct in 1914.

It will be impossible to save the Black-footed Ferret, already endangered, if the prairie dog is wiped out. The Prairie Dog is the ferret's basic food source.

The Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Mountain Plover, Ferruginous Hawk, Burrowing Owl, and a host of other species all have two things in common—the loss of their grassland habitat and the possibility of the label "threatened and endangered." The ferret and the Mountain Plover already carry this label while the others are about to have it added.

The North American Great Plains, home to the prairie dogs, birds, bison, elk and many other species, was once one of the most magnificent grasslands in the world, containing the largest aggregation of wildlife outside of Africa.

But it has been so carved up, plowed under and paved over, that today it is among the most degraded ecosystems in North America. Ninety-nine percent of America's tallgrass prairies and 70% of the mixed and shortgrass prairies have been destroyed. If nothing is done, these prairies and this wildlife could soon disappear forever.

Early settlers were shortsighted, giving little thought to the plants and animals of the prairie, plowing it to raise wheat, corn and cattle.

As a result, over the last century, prairie dogs have been pushed off 99% of the land they historically occupied. In the eleven states within the historic ranges of the prairie dog, these were considered rodents and obnoxious vermin and were killed by the billions through poisoning and recreational shooting.

The early settlers didn't understand that the burrows made by the prairie dogs helped turn and aerate the soil like a rotary tiller does in a garden. They didn't know that a prairie dog ecosystem contains more diversity and density of succulent plants than a prairie without prairie dogs.

Through time, however, it has been proven that domestic cattle now inhabiting most of the prairie prefer to graze in prairie dog towns because of the healthy plant diversity and density. Prairie dogs do not destroy the range; they are part of its regeneration.

Pioneers didn't realize that the prairie dog was a keystone species, holding the prairie web of life together and supporting and attracting more than

140 wildlife species. The Black-footed Ferret, Burrowing Owl, and many other species depend on the once huge prairie dog towns for food and shelter.

At the urging of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the eleven states within the historic prairie dog range have now joined together as an Interstate Conservation Team to develop range-wide standards to protect the prairie dog and prevent it from being federally listed. Each state is working out its conservation plan.

Nebraska's efforts to protect the prairie dogs have been slow and emotional. Until 1994, Nebraska law required prairie dogs to be exterminated.

Now the law permits prairie dog towns under very limited voluntary landowner conditions. Governor Johanns has called for a rodent count before subscribing to any state conservation plan.

The Nebraska plan, so far, is based on the voluntary participation of willing landowners with an incentive program built in as compensation.

The plan allows continued control of prairie dogs by poisoning and recreational shooting, but only with a permit. It recognizes prairie dogs as a wildlife species with primary management authority by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission rather than as a "pest" under the Department of Agriculture, Weed and Pest District.

If no Nebraska plan is put forth that adequately protects the prairie dog and the prairie dog is eventually federally listed as endangered, primary responsibilities for management of the species will be transferred from the state to U.S. Fish & Wildlife, and federal law will take precedence. Landowners will then lose the ability to control prairie dogs on their property.

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Amendments to be Voted in February

Great Backyard Bird Count

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology seeks persons to join in the Great Backyard Bird Count February 15-18, 2001.

The procedure is to count the birds you see at your backyard feeder, local park, or other area and log them into the BirdSource database, managed by the Lab and National Audubon Society at www.birdsource.org/gbbc. You'll find maps, graphs, bid bios and song, materials for teachers, and past Great Backyard Bird Count results.

Help find out which birds are where and know that your information is added to this important database!

If you do not have web access, you may wish to ask a friend to process your findings for you, or try your local library.

No fees, no registration necessary. All the instructions you need are provided on the web site.

In May 2001, an amendment was presented to the Board concerning the procedure to be followed if ASO wishes to terminate its affiliation with the National Audubon Society. Actual termination was not discussed or recommended by the Board.

After the amendment appeared in the Summer 2001 issue of the newsletter preparatory to a vote at the general meeting, comments from members were received, and the amendment was withdrawn and returned to the Bylaws Committee for revision.

This revised amendment and two others will be voted at the February general meeting. All members present are eligible to vote.

Constitution. Article III: Section 1 Discontinuance (added to the Constitution)

The Society reserves the right to terminate its Chapter status on six month's notice, given in writing to the National Audubon Society. A two-thirds majority of elected Board members voting by secret ballot in favor of termination is required.

If the Board approves of termination, a special general meeting will be held for all members on the subject of termination. After this meeting, ballots will be mailed to all Chapter members, to be returned within thirty days to a Post Office box to be retrieved by the president and a vice-president and remain unopened until counted by and in the presence of a minimum of the president, a vice-president, and the recording secretary.

The Society will terminate its chapter status with National Audubon when not less than fifteen percent of the chapter members returned their ballots and, of those, not less than a two-thirds majority voted in favor of termination.Six months after the notice to National Audubon, all allocation of dues by the National Society to this Society will cease.

By Laurine Blankenau

The Audubon Society of Omaha retains its right to continue as the local Audubon Society of Omaha, which will not be affiliated with the National Audubon Society. After termination of the Chapter status, dues for persons choosing membership in both the National Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Omaha shall be determined separately by each organization.

Article II: Section 3 Dissolution (ceasing to exist as a chapter),

added after final sentence, paragraph 2, former Section 2: The decision to dissolve the Chapter status shall be made by secret ballot by a majority vote of members present at any regularly called meeting provided a quorum is present and notice is given fifteen days in advance by mail or in the Society newsletter sent to all members.

Bylaws: Article XI: Revised (underlined phrase added)

The constitution and bylaws, with the exception of Article III, Discontinuance, may be amended by a majority vote, by secret ballot, of members present at any regularly called meeting, provided a quorum is present and notice of amendments are given fifteen days in advance by mail or in the Society newsletter sent to all members.

Investment Committee Seeks Experienced Persons

If you have experience in investment decision making and planning, you are invited to serve on our Committee.

Please contact Nelli Falzgraf, 292-9687 if you can help.

Prairie Dogs, Continued from page 4

Join us for more conservation and legislative news in 2002, starting Monday, January 7. The state legislature will be in session and Congress, as always, will keep us on our toes.

Meetings are held at Heron Haven, the Audubon Office, 11809 Old Maple Road, 7:30 p.m.

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American Citizens are Saving the World's Birds

By John Bianchi, National Audubon Society

An international program that works with private citizens to successfully protect millions of migrating birds worldwide received its U.S. kickoff on November 29, 2001.

Officials at Audubon, the organization leading the Important Bird Areas Program (IBA) in the U.S, launched the initiative with events across the country, highlighting land critical to the survival of birds and the individuals who help identify these unique places.

Audubon made available its first list of selected Global IBA nominations at http://www.audubon.org/news/release/iba list.html.

Global IBAs are places of international importance in communities across America and around the world, nominated by local people. The program is coordinated on a worldwide basis by Bird Life International, headquartered in Cambridge, England. Audubon is the Bird Life International Partner for the United States.

IBA recognition helps protect places

that are vital to the survival of birds. "America's birds are in trouble, and this is a chance for individuals to make a difference," said John Flicker, Audubon President and CEO. "Through stressing action by people at the local level, the IBA program offers ordinary Americans an opportunity to protect globally important places and help save the birds that use them from decline and extinction."

Audubon seeks a grassroots approach to protecting land for birds and people. The IBA program uses local volunteers to find important bird habitat.

Once identified, these sites' continued health is assured by local land managers and landowners. The program imposes no regulations, restrictions, or costs. Private lands can be nominated for inclusion only if the owner is in full agreement.

The program imposes no international controls but joins Americans with citizens worldwide who care about protecting natural resources for the good of birds and people.

Nominated sites will be rigorously reviewed by leading scientists and then endorsed by Bird Life International.

"IBA designation is a good thing for the world, the country, and for your community, said Michael Rands, President of Bird Life International. "Proximity to an IBA tells visitors that you live in a great place. You can help tell the rest of the country and world by enrolling in this program as an Audubon volunteer."

Many birds that use U.S. flyways spend parts of each year in Canada, Mexico, and Latin American countries.

"Birds are something all Americans, indeed all people, have in com

mon," said Frank Gill, Audubon Senior Vice-President for Science. "Migrating birds do not recognize borders; they are the ultimate goodwill ambassadors. The IBA program is a way to join people and communities to protect these irreplaceable national treasures."

Audubon's IBA program is a unique international effort. Thousands of citizen volunteers and scientists in local communities have been and continue to be the foundation for the program. Their hard work and dedication lead to the identification and nomination of areas critical for birds.

President Bush is urging all Americans to make a difference in their own communities as a way to help the country flourish during this challenging time. The IBA program gives Americans an opportunity to celebrate their own communities—and protect our national resources.

"You don't have to go to your Congressman, mayor, or town council to do this, " continued Flicker. "IBA is a people-centered program that relies on everyday citizens to nominate local places and take the lead on conservation efforts."

Gill said the Audubon IBA program has already identified 1,200 sites in 40 U.S. states for designation as Important Bird Areas. Audubon will have programs underway for 2002 in all 50 states, with over 3,000 sites designated.

If you find an injured bird of prey, please contact a Raptor Recovery Center volunteer at 402-734-6817 or 402-731-9869.

Notes from Nature

By Jerry Toll

Simplify! Simplify! With this admonition, the first stirrings of the American conservation movement was launched. Henry David Thoreau, influenced by the philosophy of Emerson, began his experiment in the woods of Massachusetts in 1845. In 1854 he published Walden, A Life in the Woods, recounting the philosophical revelations and enjoyment of nature he found during his experience.

He advocated living close to nature, taking from it only what was needed. During his time at Walden Pond, he was largely self-reliant. He built a simple home, raised his own food, fished and traded labor or produce for what few essentials he could not provide for himself.

He advocated minimizing one's labor to only the essentials in order to devote more time to reading and expanding one's intellect. He knew that this lifestyle was not for everyone. He himself was only able to remain at Walden Pond for a few years. Yet, according to his biographers, he recounts this time as the happiest of his life.

Thoreau's writings are of value to contemporary living, not in his adherence to self-reliance but in the stewardship and quality of life that were by-products of that lifestyle.

In line with his intellectual contemporaries, he observed nature from a scientific standpoint. He conducted experiments, recorded observations, and added to scientific knowledge. Yet he saw the spiritual in nature and considered both the spiritual and intellectual as equal parts of his nature.

Thoreau was very much alone in his thinking. He saw the excesses of the time: empire building based on exploitation of resources without regard to stewardship. He saw a better way. He marched to a different drummer. Con

sequently the publishing of Walden barely made a ripple in the publishing pond. Yet Walden is now the most reprinted work of any pre-civil war American author.

Being a product of the sixties, I read all of the popular classics of the time. Walden struck a chord with me. Making a concerted effort to simplify my life by not letting materialism rule my actions seemed desirable.

Looking back on my adult life, I find that this ideal was usually the measuring stick I used to guide my actions. Thoreau's suggestion to simplify our lives, to walk softly upon the earth, is as applicable to our complex lives as it was to his.

Douglas H. Strong recounts the contributions made by Thoreau and other historical leaders of the conservation movement in Dreamers and Defenders: American Conservationists, published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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The hawk watch at Hitchcock Nature Area is winding down as of this writing. There are only two days left until counting ends. It doesn't look as if we will be getting the 19 species of raptors we had in the previous year. However, we have seen 18 species, only missing Red-shouldered Hawk as one of the species very likely to be seen during the watch.

Hitchcock Hawkwatch is considered one of the most species-diverse hawkwatches in the country.

This happens because we straddle the divide between raptor species found in the east and those in the west. Very little is known about hawk migration through the Great Plains. Hitchcock is helping to expand our knowledge in this area.

What we have in diversity, we lose

in volume. This watch is no Duluth. We don't get 32,000 Broad-wing Hawks going through in a day. But we do have a number of days in October over 100, still pretty exciting.

Those clear days before a frost carrying north winds can be a lot of fun. And there is no better place to observe the changing fall season or watch the sun go down than Hitchcock Nature Area.

On behalf of Mark Orsag and Sue Mattix, who organize this all-volunteer watch, I want to thank all of the ASO members who each fall have given generously of their time (I know you do it because it's fun, but thanks just the same). I also invite everyone to come to Hitchcock next fall when the hawks are flying.

Christmas Bird Count: How Did We Do?

By Betty Grenon

The mild weather and totally open water created an average CBC for Omaha (65 species) on Dec. 15 but provided several high count species and two new ones for count day: Bufflehead (33), seen twice before in count week, and Franklin's Gull (150). I also had a call about a flock of Franklin's Gulls seen at about 105th & Pacific in a mowed field. There may have been more than one flock.

High counts in 39 years were Hooded Merganser 21, Ruddy Duck 327, Ring-billed Gull 798, Herring Gull 5, American Crow 758, Cedar Waxwing 295. We found the Red-shouldered Hawk, dandelions and a few Sulphur butterflies.

In all 39 years of the Count, we've had a total of 132 species.

Addresses to Remember

President George W. Bush

The White House,1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington D.C. 20500-0001

Comments: 202-456-1111; fax: 202-456-2993

Senator Ben Nelson

U.S. Senate, Washington DC 20510; 202-224-6551;

fax 202-228-0012; Lincoln: 402-437-5246

Omaha address: 7602 Pacific St, #205, 68114

Senator Chuck Hagel

U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510-2705

Phone: (202) 224-4224; Fax: (202) 224-5213

Omaha phone: (402) 758-8981

Representative Lee Terry

U.S. House of Representatives,Washington, DC 20515

Phone: (202) 225-4155 ; Fax: (202) 226-5452

Omaha phone: (402) 397-9944

Representative Douglas Bereuter

U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515

Phone: (202) 225-4806; fax (202) 225-5686

Lincoln phone: (402) 438-1598

Governor Michael Johanns

Capitol Bldg, Box 94848 Lincoln, NE 68509

Phone: (402) 471-2244; Fax: 471-6031

Mayor Mike Fahey

Omaha/Douglas Civic Center

1819 Farnam St, Omaha NE 68183

Phone: 444-5000 Hot Line: 444-5555

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Elected Officers:

President Eric Scholar, 5012 Nicholas St, Omaha 68132 551-5045

1st Vice President Clem Klaphake, 707 Garden Avenue, Bellevue 68005 292-2276

2nd Vice President Nelli Falzgraf, 414 Ridgewood Dr, Bellevue 68124 292-9687

Past President Lisa Peterson, 8911 Q St, Apt 212C, Omaha 68127 453-9146

Treasurer Garry Mick, 7045 Glendale Avenue, Omaha 68152 571-4648

Recording Secretary Rosemary Holeman, 5805 Hartman Ave, Omaha 68104 455-9919

Corresponding Secy Kay Strong, 4716 Virginia St, Omaha 68157 738-1774

Elected Directors Jackie Scholar, 5012 Nicholas St, Omaha 68132 551-5045

Sue Mattix, 11111 "T" Plaz, #206, Omaha 68137 593-7433

Cal Wolf, 13720 Wright St, Omaha 68144 333-8811

Bob Fuchs, 1113 Dillon Dr, Omaha 68132 553-8242

Paul Kardell, 1112 South 218th St, Elkhorn NE 68022 289-9864

Jo Bartikoski, 1614 No. 53rd St Omaha 68104 551-6009

Standing Committee Chairpersons:

Conservation Ione Werthman, 11649 Burt St, #011, Omaha 68154 493-0373

Education Brian Jensen, 12430 Bel Drive, Omaha NE 68144 333-6375

Field Trip Dick Rasmussen, 4503 So 16th St, Omaha 68107 731-3939

Finance Nelli Falzgraf, 414 Ridgewood Dr, Bellevue 68005 292-9687

Fund Raising Steve Lamphere, 3101 Washington St, #98, Bellevue 68005 291-9149

Hospitality DwanDean Leach, 3006 Poppleton, Omaha 68105 346-5769

Membership Bechara Embaid, 3218 No. 120th Court Apt. 221, Omaha 68164 965-9598

Natural Areas Mgt Vacant

Omaha Raptor Team Jenny Henricksen, 4845 So 167 Ave 68135 895-5487

Program Clem Klaphake, 707 Garden Avenue, Bellevue 68005 292-2276

Publication Laurine Blankenau, 3808 Grebe, Omaha 68112 451-3647

Publicity Kathy Schwery, 3616 So 96th St, Omaha 68124 397-7343

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Other Activities:

Speakers Bureau Ione Werthman, 11649 Burt St, #011, Omaha 68154 493-0373

Naturestudy Nelli Falzgraf, 414 Ridgewood Dr. Bellevue 68005 292-9687

Bird Seed Sale Sally Hansen, 2330 Bel Court #12, Omaha 68144 334-2329

Historian Kathleen Rose, 123 Bellevue Blvd So, Bellevue 68005 292-8912

Audubon Nebr Director Dave Sands, P. O. Box 117, Denton NE 68339.............. (402) 797-2301

NAS Board Member Dave Tylka, tylka@stlcc.cc.mo.us

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