Pelican Island Audubon Society
Serving Indian River County since 1964
Category: President’s Hoot
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We sit and wonder why the Seagrasses, Pelicans, Dolphins, and Manatees die?
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.May 2013 As a lad growing up, many of my friends still had an outhouse. We were careful not to put garbage into the pit. Farmers and gardeners knew not to mix human waste into the compost for our food growing soil to prevent human diseases. People have known…
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The Beauty and the Beast: Something wrong is going on!
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.April 2013 The Beauty is Blue Cypress Lake, the most pristine place in our County and Florida and generally not visited by humans. You can visit it as Bob Bruce and I are leading boat trips as a PIAS fundraiser. Still as beautiful as it was when invasive humans…
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True Collaboration
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.March 2013 What I learned from a recent, excellent, and very informative Indian River Community Foundation Workshop on True Collaboration, is that collaborating to achieve common goals is a process that requires a special effort, up front. This has to happen within an organization by board members and all…
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Are birds telling us something?
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.February 2013 Unless you are a serious birder from the cold North Atlantic Ocean in Canada and the U.S., you probably have not seen a Razorbill, which is in the family Alcidae that includes oceanic species that come to land only to colony nest in rocky crevices or burrows.…