The Dayton Audubon Society is committed to education and, in part, shows that commitment by offering annual financial scholarships and grants to individuals who we feel can make a difference in our community. At this month's program, on May 16, we will have a chance to meet some of our recent grant recipients, including Susan Seela and Pam Sizemore of Sugar Creek Elementary School. Susan and Pam, who were among the first recipients of our new Shawen Youth Ornithology Grant, have used the money received from DAS, as well as from other grant programs, to build an exciting environmental education program at their school. We meet in the lower level - entry is via the ramp to the west of the main entrance. As always, the general public is invited to attend and there is no admission fee.
Parking is free.
Please come out to meet our grant recipients, and hear the results of DAS's investment in their work. The Wallace Chronicles Bryan Wallace, a graduate of Chaminade-Julienne High School and the University of Dayton, last year received a special DAS grant to help with his biological research in Central and South America. This report, which will be continued in next month's Yellow Warbler, is his final report from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico ,where he had been monitoring and tagging leatherback turtles. He is currently working in Chiclayo, Peru with two local organizations active in captive breeding and reintroduction of the White-winged Guan in its restricted habitat on the Pacific side of the Andes. Although hot and desert-like during the day here in Baja California, during my nightly patrols of the desolate coastline in search of nesting leatherback turtles I am bundled much like my fellow Daytonians, fighting the cold of December.