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Mission statement: To preserve and improve the remaining habitat of birds and other wildlife, restore historical habitat, and educate
the public, with emphasis on children, providing vision to all about our unique Nevada environments.

MONTHLY MEETINGS
Date: Fourth Tuesday of the month
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER Time: Social at 6:30 p.m. Program starts at 7 p.m.
2006 Location: South Valleys Library
15650A Wedge Parkway, Reno
Exterior door, west side of building
vol. 44, no. 2

Inside This Issue Directions to South Valleys Library: Take Hwy 395 to the Mt. Rose Hwy. Head west
on the Mt. Rose Hwy and take the first right turn onto Wedge Parkway, just past Raleyʼs
shopping center. Go about one mile on Wedge Parkway and look for the boldly
1 Monthly Meetings designed, mustard yellow library on the right.

2 Field Trips November 28 -- Greg Scyphers -- Birds and Wildlife of Northern Tanzania
Join us for a photographic journey through northern Tanzania. Greg will show
3 Important Bird Areas pictures of scenery and wildlife, with a strong emphasis on birds, taken during a
safari he and his wife were on in this past March. One of Africaʼs most popular
4 From the Presidentʼs destinations for ecotourists is Tanzania, a country that has preserved many of its
Perch important wildlife areas to capitalize on tourism. Highlighted in this presenta-
tion will be Arusha National Park, Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara Park,
Ngorongoro Crater & Conservation Area, and Serengeti National Park.
5 Conservation Corner
Note: There is no meeting in December. The next meeting after
6 Birds In Town
November is Tuesday, January 23, 2007.

7 LAS Sales/ Birds and Books Reading Group

Membership Mark your calendars for Thursday, November 9, and December 14, 7-8:30 p.m.,
location to be announced. For November, we will discuss Ravens in Winter by
Submissions for the January/February
Bernd Heinrich. In December we will discuss which books to read in 2007. For
issue are due December 1, 2006 a list of bird-related books and bird book group meeting locations, check the
LAS web site or contact Kenn Rohrs at [email protected] or 775-849-9530.

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FIELD TRIPS AND CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS
Nancy Bish 775-884-1570
[email protected]

FIELD TRIPS AND CHRISTMAS Valley exit, north of Reno on Hwy 395 are compiled in the journal North American
Trip Leader: Alan Gubanich (775) 857- Birds.
BIRD COUNTS
0191 [email protected] When and where are the local Christmas
A full day of birding is planned (back Bird Counts? Six CBCs are conducted
For additional information on field trips around 5 p.m.), so bring a lunch and dress locally and include Carson City, Fallon,
and Christmas Bird Counts determined appropriately for the weather. Sierra Valley Pyramid Lake, South Lake Tahoe, Truckee
after this publication, please check the is a good place to see wintering raptors Meadows and Walker Lake. Details on
Lahontan Audubon Society web site at www. including Red-tailed, Rough-legged and when and where these counts occur are
nevadaaudubong.org or contact the Field Trip Ferruginous Hawks. Bald Eagles also winter provided below. For updated information on
Chair. there. If time, interest and weather permit, area Christmas Bird Counts please see the
a side trip to Yuba Pass or Hwy 70 along Lahontan Audubon Society web site at (www.
Special Thanks: This will be my last the Feather River to Plumas-Eureka State nevadaaudubon.org).
Pelican write-up as the Field Trip Chair. Park may be possible. In the eastern Sierras How do I participate? Contact the count
Christiane Omer has stepped forward to take Mountain Chickadees, nuthatches, jays, leader or show up the morning of the count
over my duties beginning in January. I will woodpeckers and sapsuckers can be found. at the appointed location, as directed in
be available to answer her questions and Please contact Alan if you plan to attend so he the count descriptions. Be sure to dress
assist in any way possible. Please welcome can plan accordingly. appropriately and bring food and drink for
her when you meet her and thank her for the day. Of course, don’t forget other such
volunteering to coordinate our field trips. If Saturday, November 18 necessary items as binoculars, field guides and
you have any suggestions on places to go or Wetlands Trip, Fallon Area scopes. There is a $5 fee for each participant
would like to be a trip leader, trip co-leader Trip Leader: Mike Goddard, Work: (775) to cover compiling and publishing costs of
or trip administrative assistant please let me 423-5128, [email protected] the North American Birds journal that reports
know and I will pass the information on to Time: 8 a.m. all count results. Ask your count leader for
Christiane. Come and see what species are migrating details on how to receive the journal.
I would like to say a special thank you to through the area on this spectacular wetland
all the field trip leaders and co-leaders for birding trip. Bring a scope if you can. A LOCAL CBC’S:
sharing their time, bird knowledge, birding bag lunch, water, and extra clothes for Fallon
enthusiasm and twisted sense of humor unpredictable weather are recommended. For Date: TBA
with everyone. Were it not for these die- more details on this trip, including where to Meet at 7 a.m. in room 104 (the science lab)
hard individuals we would not have such meet, contact the field trip leader as the date at Western Nevada Community College’s
great trips. Also, thank you to all those field approaches. Fallon campus, located behind the Holiday
trip participants who make the trips fun,
Inn Express off of Hwy 50. Areas to survey
challenging and a wild time for the leaders
CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT (CBC) include Carson Lakes, Carson River and
and co-participants. We are all out there for
What is the CBC? An annual census of adjacent agricultural lands. Contact: Bill
fun…fun…fun! Remember, there is no such
wintering bird populations that began in 1900. Mewaldt (775) 867-3469.
thing as a dumb question or a stick bird. See
The results of the surveys are used to estimate
you on the next birding trip.
the distribution and abundance of wintering
--Nancy Bish
birds in North America. Each count circle (Christmas Bird Count information and
covers an area 15 miles in diameter. Birders field trip reports are continued on page 5.)
Saturday, November 11
of all skill levels, gather in teams, and identify
Fall Raptors in Sierra Valley, CA
and count all birds observed throughout the
Time: 7 a.m.
day. The results of the nationwide census
Place: McDonald’s parking lot, Lemmon

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Reno phone: 686-5760 Carson City, NV 89710

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IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS PROGRAM
Don McIvor 775-882-2597
[email protected]

Swan Song
By the time this edition of The Peli- priceless colleagues and friends. don’t forget to occasionally take a break
can reaches your hands, I expect to Nevada is blessed with a lot of highly and enjoy what you’re fighting for.
be in Washington. The western state, competent people who do care deeply I am gratified that the LAS Board has
not the eastern morass. My wife and I about the resource, and I got to work agreed to continue the IBA Program and
bought a small remnant of a farm up with many of them. Every day they is now looking for my replacement. I
there with lots of water (a reaction to navigate a labyrinth of bureaucracy don’t know who that person will be, but
Nevada, probably), lots of birds, and and do battle with the petty, the self- I hope you will support them and help
lots of projects that need attention. interested, and the narrow-minded in them move the program forward. Over
I’m already behind. order to accomplish good things for the past year I’ve been working with
I have been serving as the Nevada wildlife and habitat. Conservationists our partners to shape the future of the
Director of Bird Conservation for come in a lot of different forms. I’ve IBA Program in Nevada and hopefully
five years and two months, longer also learned that another set of those set my replacement up for wild success.
than I’ve ever stayed in one job in fine folks start their days on the back I’m excited about the opportunities that
my life. It would be easy to say it’s of a horse or other piece of heavy lie ahead in Nevada, so excited that I
time to move on, but I’d have to equipment and then go about managing am trying to replicate this job and these
convince myself of that first before I their land. Though I value what we opportunities in Washington. But as has
could convince you. As some sort of have accomplished for birds, it is those happened before, Nevada may be the
cairn by which to measure progress conversations in halls and over fences first to shape the mold and set a standard
I thought about making this edition and the relationships they fostered that for the rest of the country to follow.
of this column a summary of what I will value most, and it is really those After years spent identifying
I’ve accomplished in five years. But people who deserve a loud thanks. Nevada’s IBAs and more years spent in
the thought of a 1,000 words of self- If I had waited until the future conservation planning, it is time to get
aggrandizement made me break out of Nevada’s birds was assured and out on the ground and start to improve
in a rash that made typing difficult. secure before leaving, I’d never get habitat for birds and wildlife. We are
Those who know me know I stink at to leave. Those of us who choose to looking at a program that will develop
self congratulation. care about and work for the natural local, grass roots partnerships, develop
Photographer Philip Hyde said, world have assumed a Sisyphean task. grant opportunities, pull together
“there is no limit to what a man can Every morning we get up and start institutional partners, and actually start
do as long as he does not care who pushing that boulder up the hill, take to put projects on the ground. It’s the job
gets the credit.” I keep this quote a 30 minute break for lunch, resume I’ve always wanted and now I’m leaving
pinned above my desk where I can pushing, and knock off around 5 and it for someone else.
occasionally glance over and read it, watch the boulder roll back to the What I’ve most wanted to say here is
and it has been my modus operandi bottom of the hill. It can be depressing. thanks. I deeply appreciate the efforts of
and the reason I’ll probably never The challenges we are facing are all who have supported and lent a hand
make it in corporate America. But I monumental and some transcend to the IBA Program.
think it explains a lot of the success the boundaries of land owners and
of the IBA Program in Nevada, and watersheds to encompass entire Keep up the good fight.
elsewhere. landscapes. Think invasive species,
From the day I started here I fire, and climate change. Read a book Don McIvor
recognized that I would never be by Tim Flannery called The Weather NV Director of Bird Conservation
able to accomplish alone all the tasks Makers; it will change your life. In NV Important Bird Areas Program
before me. So I set about developing the end it doesn’t matter whether
partnerships. The dividends of someone drives a Prius or a horse, we
those partnerships have kept the need to find common ground and work
program going and graced me with together. And as Ed Abbey pointed out,

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FROM THE PRESIDENTʼS PERCH
Steadfast Stewardship
In 2003 Swan Lake was recognized by
The evening of August 21st was bright National Audubon Society as a Nevada
IBA Nevada Looking
with late afternoon sun but balmy and Important Bird Area. Ahead are plans for New Director
surprisingly calm for that time of day in for an outdoor classroom environmental
Reno. Several representatives of LAS education center and a structured LAS is looking for a new director
joined some 90 representatives of various schedule of school class visits. for the Nevada Important Bird Areas
public agencies at a recognition and All the while Bob leads one group after Program (IBA). Long time director
dedication ceremony for the boardwalk, another onto the marsh, works with all Don McIvor is moving to Washington
now doubled in length, at Swan Lake manner of entities, and dramatizes the State (see story, page 3) and LAS
Nature Study Area. A couple sat for a vibrant life of Swan Lake through his needs a director to continue what Don
photograph on one of the eight new, photography. Asked why he chose Swan has done so ably over the past five
integrated benches, between them Lake, Bob says, “It’s my backyard.” years.
a plaque reading, “Come sit, relax, That seems a good way to look at it. A LAS has posted a complete position
and enjoy the sight and sounds of the conservation effort is not an abstraction. description on several empolyment-
marsh. The boardwalk benches are Steadfast efforts by individuals with the search web sites. After a formal
provided by a personal donation from will to do it make all the difference. In screening process, finalists will be
F. Kirk and Annaliese Odencrantz, this fashion we feather rather than foul interviewed in structured format by
Lahontan Audubon Society, lovers of all our collective nest. a panel selected by the LAS Board.
things wild.” Longtime LAS members While the position reports to LAS, the
with a long-term commitment to the – Karen L. Kish director will be an employee of the
environment, Kirk and Annaliese made a National Audubon Society.
donation to LAS a number of years ago Candidates should be graduates of an
designated for use at Swan Lake. What accredited college or university with
a pleasure to see that donation come to a degree in a relevant environmental
fruition. field, as well as relevant experience
The photographer was Bob Goodman, in the non-profit, governmental or
our “man at Swan Lake.” LAS, education sectors.
principally through Bob, has been there For more information, contact Don
from the beginning of a sustained effort McIvor at [email protected]
to restore what was an historic wetland or visit the LAS web site at www.
serving nesting and migratory birds since nevadaaudubon.org.
prehistoric times. In the early 1990’s
LAS President Ken Pulver exchanged
comments with another birder. “There are Kirk and Annaliese at Swan Lake August 21 with
a lot of birds out there. We ought to do a plaque reading, “Come sit, relax, and enjoy the
something about it.” Ken and Bob, then sights and sounds of the marsh. The boardwalk
Conservation Chair, met over breakfast: benches are provided by a personal donation
from F. Kirk and Annaliese Odencrantz, Lahontan
“What can we do?” Ken started working
Audubon Society, lovers of all things wild.”
through his various contacts in Reno city Photo is by Bob Goodman, who also designed
government. Bob used his photography the plaque.
talents to assemble and present a slide
show to bring awareness of the wetlands
to a number of groups. Audubon DONORS
got excited about it. Who owned the
land? What about water? How to keep Golden Eagle
momentum going and iron out the Anonymous gift of $1,000 to be spent on conservation projects
wrinkles in a project involving a number American Avocet $50 - $99
of public agencies? Arrange to take then Kathy Oakes
Senator Richard Bryan on a canoe trip on Mountain Bluebird $20 - $49
the marsh. Carol Coleman, Jonathan Heywood, George and Judy Johnson, Carole Terry
In April 1999 representatives of local, Ruby-crowned Kinglet $10 - $19
state, and federal agencies officially Jennifer Francis, Jim Gallagher, Ralph Hoke, Jacque Lowery, Stan Miller, John Mitchell
dedicated Swan Lake Nature Study Area.

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Lahontan Valley
Wood Ducks
(Christmas Bird Counts continued from Henderson, NV
page 2) Contact: Huston Shoopman, (702) 614-9619.
Our first general meeting of the season was
a very interesting presentation on wood
Truckee Meadows Muddy River, NV
ducks in Lahontan Valley by avid waterfowl
Date: TBA Contact: Bruce Lund at (702) 865-2808,
enthusiast Chris Nicolai, a PhD student at
Meet at the McDonald’s on the corner of [email protected].
UNR. When he was first approached by Bill
Henry, the supervising Wildlife Biologist at Oddie and Silverado (two blocks east of Hwy
395) in Sparks at 7 a.m. All count areas will Snake Valley (Great Basin National Park
Stillwater Refuge, about developing a project and vicinity), NV
to better understand the Wood Ducks seen be coordinated and teams dispersed from
this location. A potluck is planned for the Contact: Melissa Renfro (775) 234-7154
along the Carson River in Lahontan Valley, [email protected]; or leave a message
Chris was skeptical, but nonetheless intrigued. evening compiling session, time and place to
be determined. Call Dave McNinch for all the at the Great Basin National Park (775) 234-
Fallon doesn’t strike one as the place to go to 7331.
see Wood Ducks, let alone develop a research exciting details at (775) 747-7545. Please do
project. But, that’s changing and for the past not call after 9 p.m. in the evenings.
Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge, NV
four years Chris has been doing just that, Contact: Refuge at (702) 361-1171.
researching many aspects of this population. Carson City
Chris, with help from a number of Date: TBA
Honey Lake, CA
volunteers and private landowners, has Contact: Greg Scyphers at [email protected].
Contact: Tim Manolis at [email protected]
been able to place 132 nest boxes along the or (530) 253-3283.
river. While his major emphasis has been on South Lake Tahoe, CA
banding birds in hopes to gather recapture and Date: TBA Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge,
hunter return data, he’s been able to collect Come and join us for this exciting ski/ Oregon
information on nest and hatching success rates snowshoe count. Numerous chickadees and Contact: Rachelle at (541) 947-2731.
as well as causes of predation. Chris has also other resident mountain birds abound. Since
been able to gather nest box temperature data a large part of the count area is Lake Tahoe
we’ll sea kayak to look for loons, alcids, Field Trip Report
that shows when a hen is sitting on her nest in
hopes of learning how hens allocate energy to scoters, etc., provided the weather is good.
The date for this count may change due to bad An ideal water flow from Lahontan Dam
producing eggs and to incubating them. provided the five kayakers a perfect start for
Collecting this type of information wouldn’t weather conditions. Contact Will Richardson
at [email protected]. the birding trip down the lower stretch of the
be possible without the help of volunteers Carson River on September 16. The season’s
and sponsors. If you are interested in learning first frost of the night before gave way to
more about Wood Ducks or contributing Pyramid Lake
Date: TBA ideal temperatures for the slow journey,
to this valuable conservation project, Chris making it one of the better days on the river.
mentioned a few ways you can get involved. Meet at 7 a.m. at the Sutcliffe Marina. Bring
warm clothes, water and lunch. Contact: Tom Birds were everywhere, and we witnessed
For $40 you can “Adopt a Wood Duck for the second year running the migration of
box.” They will install a box on your behalf, Stille (775) 747-2222 (work), (775) 690-4261
(cell), or [email protected]. Lewis’s Woodpeckers all along the route. The
maintain it and provide you with a map of its angle of light for the early part made some
location and a summary of the activity of your identification difficult, but by the end of the
box. Another fundraising effort they created Walker Lake
Date: TBA trip we had 45 positive species, with a few
has been to auction off “Be a Biologist more in the questionable column.
for the Day” packages at recent waterfowl Contact: Dennis Serdehely at birders@gbis.
com or (775) 575-0319. One of the highlights was an American
association dinners. This is a fun-filled day Osprey with its catch of the day firmly in its
where you can spend time checking boxes, OUT OF AREA CBC’S: grasp, heading downriver ahead of us for a
taking measurements, handling and banding relaxed meal, but here we came again, and
these beautiful birds. Chris monitors nests in Ash Meadows, NV there he went again. Tough way to dine.
the spring, but also bands Wood Ducks along Contact: Donn Blake at [email protected] or Many Great Blue Herons and Black-crowned
the river during the winter, which provides (702) 645-7736. Night-Herons bolted before our craft, and a
additional volunteer opportunities. For few Wood Ducks made fly-bys over them.
more information on this project, volunteer Corn Creek (Desert NWR), NV An elusive yellow flash in the cattails was
opportunities or sponsorships mentioned Contact: Hermi Hiatt at (702) 361-1171. finally confirmed as a Yellow Warbler, and
above, contact Chris Nicolai at nicholai@unr. the many Marsh Wrens kept distracting some
nevada.edu. Elko, NV from the warbler.
--Ali Chaney Contacts: Lois Ports at (775) 738-4270 or All in all, a dry run in a good flow made for
[email protected], or Jo Dean at (775) 753- a memorable trip.
6657. --Bob Goodman, Trip Leader

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 BIRDS IN TOWN
by Alan Wallace

What with the continued warmth into late September, following what was the hottest summer on record in many
northern Nevada towns, it hardly seemed time for the autumnal equinox, much less the fall migration. Yet, something
triggered the urge to move in the birds, and sizzling August produced the first hints of the southerly avian flow to
come. Perhaps the first clue in towns was the appearance of mountain-nesting Western Tanagers, along with a few
Black Phoebes, in a couple of Reno locations in mid August. Warbler numbers and diversity picked up as the month
progressed, with a bevy of Orange-crowned, Yellow, Wilson’s, and MacGillivary’s Warblers, joined by a couple of
Yellow-breasted Chats, a Nashville Warbler, a Northern Parula, and Gray, Willow, and Olive-sided Flycatchers.
On the waterfront, Long-billed Dowitchers lined exposed spits with Western, Lesser, and Semipalmated Sandpipers,
and abundant Red-necked Phalaropes joined the Wilson’s in their busy feeding dance in the water. Several Ospreys
prowled the Truckee and Humboldt Rivers in search of migration-fortifying fish, and the Dippers began their altitudinal
migration to the lower reaches of the rivers. Still, August did not deter a few species from giving the breeding season one
last try. Common Mergansers had young along the Truckee, and Black-chinned Hummingbirds were mating, on their
nest, and fledging young.
The migration continued into September. Most of the swallows were gone by the first week of the month, but a
few Barn and Cliff Swallows were still nabbing late-season bugs over lakes and ponds several weeks later. Likewise,
most of the hummingbirds, save for a few hardy Anna’s Hummingbirds, took the mid-month cold snap to heart and
headed south. Several people noted that hummingbird numbers seemed to be down this summer in northern Nevada, in
contrast to one set of yard feeders in southern Arizona where those tiny birds were going through gallons (!) of sugar
water daily. Warblers continued to move through, including a Hermit Warbler from the northwest passing through
Tonopah and a late-September Black-throated Gray Warbler in Reno. As usual, the migration was a combination of
a gradual passage and short bursts of movement. Sue Anne Marshall happened into a “fall of birds” one mid-September
day, with a short-lived but lively influx of various warblers, kinglets, and vireos. Not all warblers head south: Yellow-
rumped Warblers winter here, and the first ones arrived on September 21. That also was the day that the White-
crowned and Golden-crowned Sparrows arrived in a big way. The white-crowneds were right on time, according to
John Anderson, but the golden-crowneds were very early. Several Fox Sparrows scratched around in a couple of Reno
yards, a rare sighting in town, and the first Dark-eyed Juncos arrived in late September, ready to spend the winter in the
lowlands. In Paradise Valley, the hawk migration in mid September must have had the rodents shaking in their burrows:
along one stretch of road through the pasturelands, nearly every other telephone pole for several miles had a perched
Red-tailed Hawk. Adult and first-year Great-tailed Grackles in Winnemucca and Battle Mountain staked out their
winter feeding sites by congregating in what must be their favorite in-town haunts: motel and grocery-store parking lots.
Breeding groups of California Quail merged into large coveys in September, accompanied in places by equally large
symbiotic retinues of House Sparrows. By aggregate weight, Canada Geese probably are our largest over wintering
bird species, and their numbers increased greatly in September. One banded goose that Harold Peterson identified had
been banded in Reno three years ago, was released in eastern Nevada that same year, and – three years later – calls Reno
home once again.
Last year, roosting birds were reported from inside cars and the curtained backdrop at outdoor amphitheatres.
Well, now come the California Quail in the soda section at Wal-Mart, as discovered by Harold Peterson. According to
the customer service manager, their presence isn’t all that uncommon. Add to that the House Finches in the rafters at
many Home Depots and the occasional Western Scrub-Jay or Bewick’s Wren that wanders into my house, and one
really doesn’t need to go outside to watch the birds.
In August and September, 131 outdoor species were reported from northern Nevada towns. Sources of
information for this column included John Anderson, Jessi Brown, Richard Brune, Ali Chaney, Jim Eidel, Mary Jo
Elpers, Clare Engeseth, Bob Goodman, Linda Hiller, Sue Anne Marshall, Don McIvor, Don Molde, Kathy Oakes,
Fred Peterson, Harold Peterson, Melissa Renfro, Greg Scyphers, Pam Straley, Jane Thompson, Steve Ting, John
Woodyard, and me. Contributions are welcome, so send a postcard/note to 1050 Sumac St., Reno, NV 89509 or an
email to [email protected], or continue to post items on the Nevada Birds List Server. The deadline for the next
column is November 25. Good birding!

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OFFICERS President Karen Kish [email protected] 841-1180

Vice President Alan Gubanich [email protected] 857-0191
Treasurer Dave Straley [email protected] 832-9222
Recording Secretary Bonnie Wagner [email protected] 829-6311
TRUSTEES Seat #1 to 2008 Jane Burnham [email protected] 677-4178
Seat #2 to 2008 Judy Kretzer [email protected] 826-6891
Seat #3 to 2009 Ali Chaney [email protected] 813-3494
Seat #4 to 2008 Jim Lytle [email protected] 577-9641
Seat #5 to 2009 Jacque Lowery [email protected] 853-1302
Seat #6 to 2007 Nancy Bish [email protected] 884-1570
Seat #7 to 2007 Kenn Rohrs [email protected] 849-9530

IBA Director Don McIvor [email protected] 882-2597

COMMITTEE Activity/Program Alan Gubanich [email protected] 857-0191

CHAIRS Birding Classes Bob Goodman [email protected] 972-7848
Birds & Books Reading Group Kenn Rohrs [email protected] 849-9530
Communications Karen Kish [email protected] 841-1180
Conservation Jim Lytle [email protected] 577-9641
Education Alan Gubanich [email protected] 857-0191
Field Trips Nancy Bish [email protected] 884-1570
Fundraising Dave Straley [email protected] 832-9222
Hospitality Jane Burnham [email protected] 677-4178
LAS Sales Jane Burnham [email protected] 677-4178
Membership Judy Kretzer [email protected] 826-6891
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