Posts by Mike Lynes
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Conservation, Golden Gate Audubon
The following is an Opinion piece published in the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday February 5, by Golden Gate Audubon Society Executive Director Mike Lynes.
By Mike Lynes
Everyone knows that cats are hunters. But even wildlife experts were stunned by a new report last week that as many as 3.7 billion birds are killed by outdoor cats in the contiguous United States each year. That’s far more than t
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Birding, Conservation, Golden Gate Audubon
By Mike Lynes
Our years of advocacy on behalf of raptors at the Altamont Pass wind farm are paying off — with a dramatic reduction in bird mortality there.
Deaths of four key raptor species from Altamont wind turbines dropped by an estimated 50 percent between 2005 and 2010, according to the independent scientific review committee charged with monitoring bird mortality there.
The estimated numbe…
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Birding, Golden Gate Audubon
By Mike Lynes, GGAS Executive Director
Amidst the excitement of the Oakland Christmas Bird Count on Sunday, we were saddened to hear news that Rich Stallcup had passed away from leukemia the previous evening.
Rich was one of the leaders of Bay Area birding and ornithology — helping found the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and educating countless fledgling birders and naturalists through the years…
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Birding, Conservation
By Mike Lynes
Federal and local government agencies have been moving forward in recent months with plans to transfer part of the former Alameda Naval Air Station to the Department of Veterans Affairs for construction of V.A. facilities on the site. In August, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services issued a Biological Opinion that would allow the project to proceed, but that warned the transfer will make l…
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Birding, Conservation
By Mike Lynes
This week the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service designated 24,527 acres along the Pacific Coast as critical habitat for endangered Western Snowy Plovers — an important step towards ensuring the species’ recovery and ultimate survival.
The FWS action ends several years of legal conflict over how much land would be designated as critical habitat for the plovers, and doubles th…
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