Thursday, October 11, 2007 @ 7:00p.m.

NYS Breeding Bird Atlas Project

 Speaker: Kim Corwin    

  Join us as DEC's Kim Corwin presents the results of the now-completed Breeding Bird Atlas project. There has been a significant amount of change in bird breeding status since NY's first Breeding Bird Atlas was published twenty years ago. Ms. Corwin will focus on some of the most surprising changes and the overall trends in the state's breeding birds.

    Kim Corwin is the job captain for the Breeding Bird Atlas project. She has been a wildlife biologist in NYS DEC's Division of Fish and Wildlife since 1982. Publication of the Atlas is expected in summer 2008.

IBAs BCAs, and the CCC

Thursday, November 8 @ 7:00p.m.

Speaker: Craig Thompson

    FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps initiative (1933-42) did much to advance the stewardship of our New York's state parks, forests and wildlife refuges, and did even more to improve the profound socio-economic plight of the "greatest generation". Join us for a celebration of the CCC program in New York State, which, with over 200 camps, was the largest CCC program in the country.

  Craig Thompson is ASCR's President by night, and by day the Director of NYS DEC's Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, the site of CCC Camp S-72 (1933-36).

The Canadian Atlantic

Thursday, December 13 @ 7:00p.m.

Speaker: Scott and Denise Stoner

    From the gannets of Bonaventure Island, to the tides of Fundy, the sandy beaches and flowers of Prince Edward Island, and the Highlands of Cape Breton; across the sea to the fjords, bogs and icebergs of Newfoundland and Labrador, Atlantic Canada is a land of spectacular scenery and wildlife. Join local bird experts Scott and Denise Stoner for an eye-popping pictorial as they recount their fabulous adventures to this special place.

   Scott and Denise Stoner have served ASCR and the Hudson Mohawk Bird Club in several key capacities for many years. Inveterate eco-travelers, together they have visited most of America's National Parks and Wildlife Refuges, and a good deal more.