By Darcy Thomas
Welcome back to another Audubon year! While everyone was out enjoying the great outdoors, family and friends, travel and birds, the work of Flathead Audubon continued. We moved into a ground floor office in the Gateway Community Center, Kalispell. We hope you will join us to see our new space during our upcoming Open House (date and time to be announced in a future issue). We sent Jess to Montreal to attend the National Audubon Leadership Conference, where she networked with leaders from across the nation and brought back ideas to boost our advocacy for birds. We established a presence on Instagram, led field trips, and made progress on our committees’ dedicated projects.
As we move into this new year we will be focusing on the Audubon Flight Plan, found on the Audubon.org website or by following this link: https://www.audubon.org/about/welcome-flight-plan.
The Audubon Flight Plan is National Audubon Society’s five-year strategic plan (2023-2028) to halt and reverse the decline of birds across the Americas. One of the Flight Plan’s focus areas is building community. To protect birds, we must encourage people to care and act. We are achieving this with our education program, which helps grow our flock of bird advocates. We also do this through enriching activities, strategic outreach, and a welcoming spirit. Our plan is to engage with diverse communities and age groups, and promote educational programs, community science projects, habitat improvement projects, and social events. Birding plays a vital role in conservation and protecting our natural world. Join us in this exciting year!