Meetings and Guest Speakers
General Meeting and Presentation
Our monthly meeting begins at 6:30 PM on the third Monday of the month (except for the months of May, June, July, August and December) at the First United Methodist Church, 1551 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa.
As always, the public is invited to these free programs.
Monday, October 19th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Isis Howard, Conservation Biologist, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
Monarch Conservation & the Power of Community Science
Want to help the monarch butterfly? Join us and the Xerces Society for an inspiring science talk on the western monarch population. Learn about these butterflies' incredible migration to our California coastline, their fragile ecology, and the simple steps we can all take to help them recover. While actions are urgent, the opportunities for impact are great. You'll leave with fun facts, local community connections, and a clear vision of your role in the monarch's comeback story.
Based in Sonoma County, California, Isis works to protect western monarch butterflies across their breeding, migratory, and overwintering ranges. She provides technical assistance and training to land managers and the public on habitat restoration, monitoring and data collection, and pollinator conservation. She also manages community science programs, including the Western Monarch Count and Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper, and coordinates the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz with several national partners. Isis is an experienced outdoor educator and holds a bachelor of science degree in environmental management and protection from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Wednesday, November 11th, 7pm - 9pm
Joint Meeting with Redwood Regional Ornithological Society (RROS)
In November, RROS is hosting its annual joint meeting with Madrone Audubon.
Presenter: Ronald Brown, volunteer colony monitor for San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory’s Colonial Waterbirds Program (formerly, All Hands Ecology’s Heron and Egret Project)
Ronald Brown is an immigrant from Scotland (1972) and a 2010 retiree who likes nature and the outdoors. He developed an interest in birds during the pandemic and has volunteered for various nature-related programs since retirement: One Tam Wildlife cameras, Marin County Breeding Bird Atlas and most especially All Hands Ecology’s Heron and Egret Project (HEP) (now, SFBBO’s Colonial Waterbirds Program). In 2020 (1st year of the pandemic) he somewhat accidentally became involved with the monitoring of Dover Park in Fairfield, a Snowy Egret/Black crowned Night Heron/Cattle Egret colony. Ron will describe the history of the monitoring project and share his observations/concerns for the status of Snowy Egret/Black-crowned Night Heron/Cattle Egret in the North Bay. More from RROS…