Pelican Island Audubon Society
Serving Indian River County since 1964
Category: President’s Hoot
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Plant 100,000 Trees for Life
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.January 2019 We are excited starting our massive new project to transform Indian River County (IRC), to save our waters, rivers, lakes and lagoon as well as to help reduce climate change (see October 2018 Hoot for details). To update you, we are moving ahead with Plant 100,000 Trees…
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Educating for our future! 2018 Best Chapter Education Project Award
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.November 2018 Audubon Florida presented the Best Chapter Education Project of the Year Award to our chapter at the Audubon Assembly on October 20, 2018. This was our fifth award our chapter has received in the last four years and 12th for the last 16 years. This award was…
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Climate Change affects our county! It’s scary, but each of us can help stop Global Warming
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.May 2019 The exact beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch within the Geological Time Scale, the standard scientific timeline of Earth’s 4.5-billon-year history, is very controversial. Some suggest it began 12,000 years ago when humans killed off huge numbers of large mammals and birds (e.g., Elephant Bird), or with the…
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Our 2019 Audubon Heroes
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.April 2019 Many folks contributed to the success of Pelican Island Audubon this year. Volunteers participated in our events, developed courses, led birding field trips, helped with landscaping, grew trees, taught kids, wrote grants for funding, welcomed visitors, and continued our ongoing projects at Audubon House. At our annual…