Young people are the key to the future of our country. It is their inheritance we are spending and they need to care about how carefully we are stewarding it. They have a great stake in it. Please help us with your financial support.

Audubon Adventures provides classrooms with environmental education prrograms. They cost about $50.00 per class. Will you sponsor a class?

Books to Schools. We are providing environment oriented books to four schools in the area this year at a cost of $350.00 per school. Will you help?

Volunteers. Your help with any of our activities is needed. The more volunteers we have, the less each of us has to do.

Join us. Check out this page for an application.

2010-2011 Meetings

Meetings are conducted on the third Wednesday of the month at the Edgewater Library at the corner of US 1 and Indian River Boulevard. They start at 7:00 p.m. and are open to the general public. You do not have to be a member to attend.

Oct 20, 2010. Our October speaker will be Lisa Roberts, Executive Director of the Florida Wildflower Foundation. Lisa moved to Florida when she was four years old and grew up in the Orlando area. She attended UCF and received her Bachelor Degree in Journalism from that school. She is a certified Florida Master Naturalist and enjoys kayaking, hiking, oil painting and gardening with native plants and wildflowers. For more information, click here.

Nov 17, 2010. Our November speaker will be Dr. Terence Farrell of Stetson University in Deland. Dr. Farrell was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and grew up there. Catching ringneck snakes and redback salamanders in his backyard obviously planted the seeds for his subsequent career choice. The title of his talk will be Herpetology for the Ornithologist. For more information, click here.

Dec 15, 2010. Our speaker for December will be Bob Montanaro. This will be Bob’s second presentation to our club. Three years ago Bob presented a photographic story of a pair of Osprey who nested at the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. The pictures were beautiful and expressive and the story compelling, but, sadly, the nesting failed. This year’s presentation is of two nesting pair and has a much more satisfactory result. For more information, click here.

2009-2010 Meetings

Sep 16, 2009. Club president, Don Picard, will present a report on Birds and Climate Change developed by National Audubon after reviewing the results of 100 years’ of Christmas Bird Counts. Of 305 species studied, 177 of them shifted their southward migrations and stopped short of their traditional wintering grounds. In fact, 60 species stopped at least 100 miles north. Find out what is going on and what it means.

Oct 21, 2009. The state and nationally acclaimed environmental writer, Ms Dinah Pulver of the Daytona Beach News-Journal. She will give us a State of our Water report. Check out her bio.

Nov 18, 2009. Dr. Fred Mosher of Embry-Riddle University speaking on Global Warming, a subject important to all of us who live in the world but particularly us denizens of the lowlands of Central Florida.

Dec 16, 2009. Mr. Gary Knight, or one of his staff, from the Florida Natural Areas Inventory will give us a State of our Land Report. FNAI’s website is www.fnai.org should you wish to do a bit of homework before the meeting.

Jan 20, 2010. Mr. Michael Brothers, Director of the Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet, will discuss the Natural History of East Central Florida.

Feb 17, 2010. Dr. Michael Reiter, Associate Professor at Bethune-Cookman University, will finalize our State of our Area series with a discussion on Global Warming and What we Can Do About It.

Mar 17, 2010. Dr. Debra Woodall, Associate Professor at Daytona State College. Dr. Woodall will address The Effect of Global Warming on our Oceans and Ocean Systems.