Subject: Murrelet Survey Project
Date: Apr 14 22:12:36 1996
From: Steve Hallstrom - steveh at u.washington.edu



Hi Tweets,

Urgent request to save old growth forests from salvage rider. Please
contact Bonnie Phillips if you can assist.

Steve Hallstrom

>Sender: <pasbp at igc.apc.org>
>From: "Bonnie Phillips" <pasbp at igc.apc.org>
>Organization: Pilchuck Audubon Society
>Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 11:39:42 +0000
>Subject: Help the Murrelets!
>Reply-to: pasbp at igc.apc.org
>
>WANTED - VOLUNTEERS TO DO MARBLED MURRELET SURVEYS
> HELP SAVE A SPECIES AND OUR OLD GROWTH ECOSYSTEM
>
>On Saturday and Sunday, April 20 and 21, Jeff Reams will be offering a
marbled murrelet surveyors'
>training program near Olympia, Washington. The purpose of this training is
to help save a species and our
>old growth forest ecosystem. A similar training will occur in Oregon on
Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and
>28.
>
>Currently, there are a number of old growth sales on the Mt.
Baker-Snoqualmie and Olympic National
>Forests in Washington State and the Suislaw and Siskiyou National Forests
and BLM Districts in the Coast
>Range in Oregon which could be clearcut if the Ninth Circuit Court upholds
a ruling made by Oregon
>Federal Judge Hogan. That ruling discounted the scientifically-based
Pacific Seabird Group protocol used
>by federal and state agencies, as well as private timber companies, to
locate and verify murrelet occupancy
>of timber sale units.
>
>About 70% of the old growth clearcut sales which were given "jeopardy"
decisions by the U.S. Fish and
>Wildlife Service (i.e. logging these sales may jeopardize the existence of
the marbled murrelet, a threatened
>species under the Endangered Species Act) could be logged this summer under
the Hogan ruling.
>
>Audubon chapters and others have joined together in Washington State and
Oregon to provide training to
>volunteers who will survey for murrelets with the goal of finding the kind
of murrelet activity "acceptable to
>the court".
>
>Please get involved, and spread the word. If you would like to sign up for
this vital program, or want more
>information, call:
>
>Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest: Martin Rand, Pilchuck Audubon
Society (206) 450-0724
>(daytime weekdays).
>
>Olympic National Forest: David Jennings, Black Hills Audubon Society (360)
866-7551 (evening
>weekdays, weekends).
>
>Suislaw and Siskiyou National Forests: Lisa Brown, Coordinator for the
Murrelet Survey Project (541-
>753-9211) (daytime weekdays).
>
>If you cannot reach Martin or David, give Lisa a call and she'll help you.
IF YOU ARE ALREADY A
>TRAINED MURRELET SURVEYOR AND CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM, YOU DO NOT
>NEED TO ATTEND THE TRAINING. WE NEED TO KNOW YOUR NAMES AND AVAILABILITY,
>SO CALL MARTIN, DAVID OR LISA.
>
>The murrelet survey training program has been developed and is sponsored by
National Audubon
>Society and many Audubon chapters in the two states. Pilchuck Audubon
Society serves as fiscal
>sponsor. Lisa's services are provided by contract with the Coast Range
Association.
>
>The entire program will cost about $7,000, and donations are being
solicited. If you can contribute
>financially to this program, please write a check made payable to Pilchuck
Audubon Society/Murrelets and
>mail to Bonnie Phillips, Executive Director, PAS, 9210 Market Place
>#H-103, Everett, WA 98205.
>
>