Northern Arizona Audubon

Logan’s Crossing Work Days Resume

We had a very successful first work day, on the E. Rio de Flag, April 5th.  A total of 26 volunteers turned out to mug the invasive thistle. We focused on the upstream end of our adopted area of Forest Service property, as it had received scant attention last year and it showed. 

We worked hard and dug up most of the new florets just coming up in the patches where the thistle went to seed last year.  The bad news was we found several new patches downstream that we weren’t previously aware of. 

So there will be no shortage of work for our dedicated Thistle Thugs & Weed Warriors this summer.  The good news is there is almost no new thistle coming up in the downstream area we focused on last year.  There’s lots of hope we can win this battle!

Tentative work dates:
May 3rd      
June 7th
July 12th
Sept 6th
Oct 4th

Please come out and join us – it’s lots of fun and rewarding too.  (Free food too – Supervisor Deb Hill has provided funding for us to buy lunch for our volunteers).

For more info contact me, Kathie Satterfield, Volunteer Coordinator, at k.satterfield AT yahoo.com

Ways you can help:
Volunteer to show up at our monthly meetings at 6:30 to help set-up chairs and tables, or to bring refreshments.

Come have fun doing battle with Russian Olive at our Page Springs workdays. Or give reign to the Thistle Thug within, and join our Rio de Flag workdays.

Help out on a committee – you don’t need any expertise, just a willingness to learn.

Programs – Help find interesting speakers for our monthly meetings.

Education – Work with our education co-chairs on developing educational programs and other outreach opportunities to students.

Conservation – Help us stay informed on local, state & national policies and actions affecting our environment and natural habitats. This might involve reading environmental impact documents, or attending community meetings and other types of events and then sharing what you’ve learned with the rest of the Board and chapter members.

Publicity & Publications – Help us get the word out about issues of concern and chapter activities via newspapers, radio, T.V. and other media. Right now we could really use someone to help us put together a chapter brochure.

Membership – We need someone from Flagstaff to fill our Above the Rim membership chair. This entails meeting and greeting members and visitors at our monthly meetings, helping out at tabling events and doing general new member recruitment. (We even already have a committee member willing to help out at the meetings).

Habitat Restoration
We need folks who enjoy the satisfaction that comes from taking messy to neat. This includes picking up trash, removing exotic invasive plants, planting native plants as well as trail creation and maintenance. The areas we work on vary from Picture Canyon in Flagstaff to Page Springs, south of Sedona.

Fundraising – Help us find creative ways to raise the money we need to implement all the great programs our wonderful new volunteers are putting together now.

Hospitality – Help plan our social events. Right now we only have one, a party for our Birdathon teams. But with all these fun new volunteers, we’ll need to add a volunteer appreciation party in the Sedona area and another in Flagstaff.

OR...maybe you have a special skill or idea that we could use (graphic arts, marketing, or carpentry jump to mind), please don’t be shy, even if you’re not sure how you can help, give me a call and we’ll talk about ways you can help Northern Arizona Audubon make a difference and achieve our mission of promoting the understanding and appreciation of birds and other wildlife, and the conservation and restoration of their natural habitats.