 Two of our members applied for and received grants totaling $1,085 from National Audubon to fund local conservation projects.
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 Jennifer Dudek, our Vice President - Las Vegas, had her photo of a Mountain Bluebird published in a children's birding book recently released by National Audubon.
by Paul Rodriguez  On Saturday, February 15th we had a group of 20 students and their teachers from the Rise Academy, joined us at the Winchester Cultural Center as part or the Winchester Nesters Program, for the Great Backyard Bird Count.
 Snow Egret - photo by Steve Kaye As a chapter, Red Rock Audubon has joined over 500 organizations supporting the Migratory Bird Protection Act. Chapter members have individually written to or called their Congressional Representatives and Senators urging their support of the MBPA. To date, Representative Titus and Representative Horsford are co-sponsoring HR 5552 in the House of Representatives.
By Jim Boone  Thousands for cavity nesting birds are needlessly killed every year by illegal hollow PVC mine markers. Jim Boone and other volunteers have made it their mission to go out into places like Gold Butte and remove these killers. Red Rock Audubon fully supports this effort. By about 1990, the federal agencies had moved to protect native wildlife and banned the use of hollow pipes for mining claims on public lands. In 1993, Nevada passed a law banning the use of uncapped, hollow pipes within the state. In 2009, Nevada amended the law requiring prospectors to remove hollow pipes and replace them with wildlife-safe markers. The most common claim marker seen these days is a 2×2-inch, 4-ft tall wooden post. The 1993 law also permitted the public to knock down any hollow pipes remaining on public lands starting in 2011 because they are presumed to be abandoned. We are, however, required to leave the pipes lying in place to make it easier for another prospector to re-stake the claim without resurveying it. Read more...
 Encouraging youth to develop a passion for birds and the environment is a top priority for two Red Rock Audubon members. That is why they will provide annual funding for a summer camp experience for teens at Audubon's Hog Island Camp in Maine. The RRAS Board has established a scholarship program for that purpose.
 On Saturday February 1, 2020, 11 people from Red Rock Audubon and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worked on bird habitat maintenance activities at Pond 1 of the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. From 8 am to noon, the volunteers worked and accomplished the following:
By Andrea Wirth  California Gull, photo by Alex Harper On Saturday January 25th, 16 RRAS members and friends participated in the Lake Mead Midwinter Birding field trip. Our stops included Hemenway Harbor, Sail Beach, Boulder Beach, and 33 Hole. With the expertise of our guides (Alex Harper, Ben Zyla, and Brandon Miller) we got an excellent introduction on how to identify California Gulls and Ring-Billed Gulls, and tips for working through gull identification generally.
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