> Seattle Audubon also has tis membership category available. FOSA, Friends
> of Seattle Audubon, members have all rights and privileges of local NAS
> members who are assigned to SAS by NAS. As Don noted, the FOSA members
> do not get the AUDUBON magazine, nor do they get phone solicitations to
> join etc. Many of the SAS Board are FOSA members. FOSA members get
> EARTHCARE, the SAS newsletter, discounts at the Nature shop and priority
> for field trips.

Great! Glad to hear it! Didn't mean to come across as being overly
parochial...

>
> What Don omitted was the nature of the NAS membership and dues split. The
> dues paid to NAS are split between the local chapter and NAS.

I did, in passing - I said that "we get to keep all the money", but
without details.

> ps. SAS is tht 5th or 6th largest chapter in NAS with about 5,000 members.
> We now have around 250 FOSA members. Aiming for that first 1,000 soon. I
> think PAS has over 2,500 FOPAS members. We have a ways to go.

Something like that, I don't know the exact figures on FOPAS memberships.

5,000 members - you're catching up! You oughtta surpass us, go for
it! We're only at 7,500 or so (and may be 3rd, not 2nd largest,
we've been told both at various times).

BTW, we run our own Birdathon fund-raiser as well. We keep all the
money, rather than running it as part of National's.

Our justification is that we've been doing it longer than National,
and - despite pressure at first - have declined the opportunity
to participate at the National level :)

> pps. While the Western Regional VP may support local memberships the
> NAS office in Olympia does not.

My comment regarding the Western Regional office was not in relation
to local memberships, but to phone solicitations.


-Don Baccus-