[TN-Bird] TOS spring meeting
- From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:32:39 -0800 (PST)
Hi Folks,
I'm not sure why this didn't go through the other day, and you had to
deal with that messed up copy that Wallace was kind enough to forward
from the KY list... I *promise* I didn't send it there first!
But here is the official announcement.
Charlie
The Knoxville Chapter of Tennessee Ornithological Society is pleased
to announce plans for the Spring 2003 meeting.
We are fortunate to have an excellent speaker for this event. Dr.
Chandler Robbins, an eminent ornithologist, is visiting from the US
Geologic Service in Laurel, Maryland to speak with us. Among his
many credits, Dr. Robbins wrote the original Golden Guide to birds,
and was instrumental in starting up Breeding Bird Surveys ? the most
scientifically important citizen science project related to birds.
He has authored hundreds of scientific papers and helped shape many
research methods in use around the world today. Much of his effort
in the last 2 decades has been to band neotropical migrants in their
Central American winter range. The American Birding Association?s
Research and Education award is named for his many years of service
on both fronts. A more complete biography is below the meeting
information. We sincerely 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
West Knoxville. The banquet, featuring Dr. Robbins? talk will be at
the ESK dining hall, and catered by Gus?s Catering on Saturday night.
A silent auction to benefit the JB Owen Memorial Fund will be
completed during the banquet. The first donation from the JB Owen
fund recently was awarded to the Foothills Land Conservancy to aid in
the protection of critical habitat. Much of Dr. Robbins work has
demonstrated that habitat loss is a primary cause for the decrease in
numbers experienced by many species 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 865-966-5801
$44.95 + tax for double room, includes continental breakfast
After April 1 the rooms will be released
Motel 6 865-675-7200
$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 ½ mile.
Turn left on Gilbert Street. ESK is down about a quarter mile on the
right. The address is 950 Episcopal School Way.
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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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