[TN-Bird] Fw: [birdky] TOS Spring Meeting Announcement
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:11:56 -0600
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From: krzy4owls@xxxxxxxx <krzy4owls@xxxxxxxx>
To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:11 AM
Subject: [birdky] TOS Spring Meeting Announcement
>
>Passing on some news from our neighbor.
>Kathy =
>
>
>The Knoxville Chapter of Tennessee Ornithological Society is pleased to a=
>nnounce plans for the Spring 2003 meeting.
>
> We are fortunate to have an excellent speaker for this event. Dr. Chan=
>dler Robbins, an eminent ornithologist, is visiting from the US Geologic =
>Service in Laurel, Maryland to speak with us. Among his many credits, Dr=
>=2E Robbins wrote the original Golden Guide to birds, and was instrumenta=
>l in starting up Breeding Bird Surveys =96 the most
>scientifically important citizen science project related to birds. =
>
>
> He has authored hundreds of scientific papers and helped shape many res=
>earch methods in use around the world today. Much of his effort in the l=
>ast 2 decades has been to band neotropical migrants in their
>Central American winter range. The American Birding Association=92s Rese=
>arch and Education award is named for his many years of service on both f=
>ronts. A more complete biography is below the meeting information. We si=
>ncerely hope our birding friends in surrounding
>states, as well as TOS members, will turn out for this special speaker.).=
>
>
> The meeting is May 2-4 at the Episcopal School of Knoxville (ESK) in We=
>st Knoxville. The banquet, featuring Dr. Robbins=92 talk will be at the E=
>SK dining hall, and catered by Gus=92s Catering on Saturday night.
>
> A silent auction to benefit the JB Owen Memorial Fund will becompleted =
>during the banquet. The first donation from the JB Owen fund recently wa=
>s awarded to the Foothills Land Conservancy to aid in the protection of c=
>ritical habitat. Much of Dr. Robbins work has demonstrated that habitat =
>loss is a primary cause for the decrease in numbers experienced by many s=
>pecies of birds.
>
>Field trips are expected to include: Great Smoky Mountains National Park,=
> Sharps Ridge, Kyker Bottoms, Kingston Steam Plant and Cove Lake.
>
>Registration: $7 if postmarked before April 10, $8 after.
>Dinner/speaker $15 additional.
>Please mail registration to Jerry Hadder, Treasurer, KTOS. 18 Rockingham =
>Lane, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Checks can be made out to KTOS.
>
>Motels: 20 rooms at two hotels on Lovell Road have been reserved for the=
> meeting. In both cases, they are "reserved" under the TN Ornithological=
> Society. Please mention that when you register.
>
>Days Inn 966 5801 =
>
>$44.95 + tax for double room, includes continental breakfast
>After April 1 the rooms will be released =
>
>
>Motel 6 675 7200
>$36.99 + tax for double room, includes coffee only
>After April 15th the rooms will be released.
>
>To get to the meeting: From Interstate 40 take the Lovell Road exit.
> Take Lovell Road north (take left off ramp if you come from I-40
>west; take right off ramp if you come from the east) about =BD mile. =
>
>Turn left on Gilbert Street. ESK is down about a quarter mile on the rig=
>ht. The address is 950 Episcopal School Way.
>
>
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>**************************************************
>Charlie Muise, Senior Naturalist
>Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
>Townsend, TN lat 35 deg, 38'23" long 83 deg, 41'22"
>
>"Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough"
> - Ben Frankline, Poor Richard's Almanac
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