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Vol. 7 No. 2 Santa arbaraE§bruary,12§9 ,. _, . e_;v <._ is . California 93105

CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS

Feb. 15-17 FIELD TRIP T0 SALTON SEA See January bulletin for fullSat.-Mon details. iet rs. Eooke 966-5520 know if you are going.

Feb. 28 FIELD IDENTI?ICATION CLASS: 7:30 p.m. Helpful hints forFriday Spring birding will be given by Les Cook this evening.

R%QULAB MOHTHL§ MEETING: 8:00 p.m. Farrand Hall Museum

o Natural History. Tonight we are privileged to hearDick Smith's A WEEK OF CATASTROPHE, as he relates hismany experiences during the disastrous oil spill in theSanta Barbara Channel. (Ed. Note 2/4/69. Let s hope that

- its only a week of catastrophe!)

Feb. 23 TENTAIIVE RESCHEDUL NG OF POINT_MUGU MARSHES FIELD TRIP

Sunday Note the date, Feb.l§1 . ieawe Museum at 8:00 a.m. ormeet the group at the Standard Station at the Seward Ave.offramp in Venture at 8:h5. Take lunch. Driver donationis $1.75. Notify Mrs. Cooke, 966-5520 if you are going,

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FEE. 21 MALAG@LOGICAL SOGIET lnfltes us.toshear=Drr Neushul's

FRIDAY "5II'FoTlutIon and grine Plants~& Animals‘ at 7:30 inFarrand Hal1._Slides will be shoun;- ' '~ *1.

Mar. 6 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEET;§§; 4:50 p.m. Museum JuniorThursday Iibrary. Interested members always welcome at meeting.

Mar. 16 IIELD TRIP TC REEUGIQ PASS! Meet at Museum 8% 8$Q0 8-E.Sunday or at the pariihg~1ot in efugio Park at 8:30. Bring

lunch. Driver donation is $1.25.

Mar. 30 FIELD TRl£hTO BIXBY RANCH & JALAMA BEACH 5 Thl tripSunday replaces t e Victorville field trip on the schedule.

Check next month's bulletin for full details.

May 18 SPRING BOAT TRIP: The Audubon Society has reserved 25

Sunday spaces aboard the Sierra Club chartered Swift. The costwill be $11.00 per person. Leader: Waldo Abbott

PES§DENT'§.M§§S§QE

The past week has been so hectic that it has been impossible tofind time to report to you earlier. I have received literally hundredser belepheae calls from people in Sacramento, Los Angeles and points

beween, all gf them asking whit they eguld do toihelp. This has been

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clam: Llano Q -0 haul or in uubunh. ,|u-eh. 1, the SBAS in a press release called for the cessa ion of tho use

of chemicals to breakup the oil slick in the Channel.During the weekend and after, members assisted the State and Fed-

eral Wildlife officials in setting up the several bird treatmentcenters, giving advice, walking the beaches in search of oiled birds,and in some instances actually treating and feeding the birds broughtir

On Wed., Feb. 5, Mr. Fred Ross, Warden-Manager of the NAS's Rioh~ardson Bay Refuge near San Francisco, drove to Santa Barbara at therequest of Charles Callison to give a first-hand report of the situaetion here to our parent organization. Mr. Ross spent Wed~ stuyding theSanta Barbara area and then on Thurs. visited Anacapa Island by boatwith John Borneman. They reported that the littoral zone is a completeloss. There were a few seals on the island and some gulls, but no signof life in the intertidal zone. When talking with me later, Mr. Rosstold me that he had already telephoned Dr. Stahr, NAS President, andwould be sending a full report immediately.

The SEAS Board met Wed, Feb. 5 to discuss what action mught betaken by our local branch. It was agreed that the present disasterdemonstrates the utter lack of planning and the fact that the oilindustry and government have not beensufficiently careful. We believethat all oil drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel should be permae 1_,nently terminated.If you have not already done so, let your legislators know yourpersonal feelings regarding this disaster.....Joy Parkinson, President

PETITION

A petition is enclosed which those who care to may circulate andreturn to Studio "G" E1 Preside, Santa Barbara, California 93101

AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP

A team of U.S. Fish & Wildlife service employees is in SantaBarbara. One of its assignments is to get documentary evidence of theeffect of the oil catastrophe on the fish and wildlife populations.They will welcome some help from the Society. A summary of the Christ-mas count numbers of water and shore birds found in various areas alongthe shore and in the lagoons and reservoirs will provide reliablefigures on our normal winter populations. The semi-weekly censusestaken two years ago by Leslie Cook, the Gardners and Mary Erickson'sstudents at Sandyland Slough, the Bird Refuge and the Goleta Sloughfor California Fish and Game will give additional base figures.

A further contribution can be made if we can now make a series ofrepeat counts of water and shore birds in each of the coastal areascovered by our Christmas Count parties. The best way to do this wouldbe to have the same teams work the same areas for the same number ofhours. This would be quite difficult for some of them. It is suggestedthat those of our members, who know the birds and can take the ime,pick one of the areas and make a count a lot of times between now andMay first.

Our coastal count areas are: 1- Fernald Point to S.B. Cemetery,2- Cemetery to Stearns Wharf, including the Bird Refuge, 3- Harbor,breakwater, sandspit and Leadbetter Beach, #- Mesa Beach, Arroyo BurroBeach, 5- Hope Ranch beach and Laguna Blanca, 6- More Mesa to FairviewAve., 7- Goleta Slough, Goleta Beach Park & others. Call Nelson Metcalfph0ne964-3008 for full details and additional information.