Here is our current calendar of events.

CALENDAR Simple directions to any of the locations mentioned on the calendar. Our mission is to promote an awareness and appreciation of nature, to preserve and protect wildlife and natural ecosystems, and to encourage responsible environmental stewardship.	There will be no General Meeting or Board Meeting in July or August     BIRDATHON - To support our Birdathon fund-raiser for local and regional bird  habitat, click here for donation form and information. The Birdathon is the annual major fund-raising campaign by our chapter. Our goals are to raise $3000 for EMAS Scholarships, Audubon North Carolina Coastal Island Sanctuaries, and Mountain Important Bird Areas . January 2009 2 Saturday Beaver Lake Bird Walk - Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary 9:00 am.Map link to Beaver Lake Haywood (Balsam) Christmas Bird Count - Contact Bob Olthoff olthoff@bellsouth.net 3 Sunday Henderson County Christmas Bird Count - Contact Wayne Forsythe wforsythe@morrisbb.net February 2009 3 Saturday Beaver Lake Bird Walk - Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary 9:00 am.Map link to Beaver Lake 12-15   Great Backyard Bird Count - Link to National site for more information. Local bird walks and information can be found here. Note: There will be no general meetings in December, January, February, July or August and no Board meeting in January, July or August. Happy New Year! General Meetings are usually held the third Tuesday of the month in September thru November and March thru June. There are no meetings in December, January, July or August. Location Directions UNCA - Reuter Center If you are coming from I-19/23/26 take exit 25, the UNCA exit. If you are coming from the North, take a left at the light at the end of the ramp, and take another left at the second light onto Campus Drive. If you are coming from the South, take a right at the stop sign at the end of the exit ramp, and take a left at the first light onto Campus Drive. Once you are on Campus Drive, go 0.5 mile going over 4 speed bumps to the top of the hill. At the stop sign take a left (there is a small sign pointing left to the Reuter Center), and go less than 100 yards to the driveway on the right, which is the entrance to the Reuter Center parking lot. Drive straight into the upper parking lot. Enter the Reuter Center through the doors at the large overhang. Room 206 is on your left. If the upper parking lot should be full, continue through the upper parking lot and drive around to the lower parking lot. Enter the building there and use either the elevator or the very long staircase to tget to the second floor. Click here for more information about the Reuter Center. Map link to UNCA - Reuter Center On the map link, Division Street and Thompson Street need to be updated as they have been renamed to Campus Drive. Botanical Gardens at Asheville Near UNCA, on W.T. Weaver Boulevard, just east of Broadway. Map link to Botanical Gardens at Asheville Beaver Lake Sanctuary Beaver Lake - We meet at the gazebo at the sanctuary on Merrimon Avenue. Map link to Beaver Lake
	TRASH TALK: People sometimes ask me, why isn't there a garbage can at the Sanctuary? Here are some reasons: 1. A trash can attracts trash, lots of it, and raccoons and possums, too. 2. A volunteer would have to haul it away. 3. People would get the idea the Sanctuary is meant for picnicking. While we don't mind it, we don't encourage it. (And please don't feed the wildlife.) 4. People should make sure their cans and bottles are recycled. 5. Your mother doesn't work there -- so clean up after yourself, please (and your pet). Len Pardue, Coordinator, Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary
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