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SUMMARY:National Audubon  Society's Annual Photo Contest Entry Period
DESCRIPTION:Audubon’s Annual Photo Contest Entry Period (recycles every year)\nThis event  recycles every year\, in a similar time frame & mode.  – you were able to submit  photos/videos between January 10th\, 2024 at 12 pm-February 28th\, 2024 at 12 pm. https://www.audubon.org/get-outside/audubon-photography-awards-2024-official-rules \nJudges  awarded eight prizes to photographers and videographers in 2023: the Grand Prize\, Professional Prize\, Amateur Prize\, Youth Prize\, Plants for Birds Prize\, Fisher Prize\, Female Bird Prize\, and Video Prize. \nPrizes included in 2024:\nGrand Prize: $5\,000 USD\nProfessional Prize: $2\,500 USD\nAmateur Prize: $2\,500 USD\nPlants for Birds Prize: $2\,500 USD\nVideo Prize: $2\,500 USD\nFemale Bird Prize: $1\,000 USD \nBirds in Landscape: $1\,000 USD\nFisher Prize: $1\,000 USD\nYouth Prize: Six days at Audubon’s Hog Island Audubon Camp for Teens during the 2024 season \nPrevious Years winners \nThere are some very nice photos to look at. \nThe winning photos were already sent out in Audubon’s magazine \nhttps://www.audubon.org/section/audubon-photography-awards \n2023 winners \nhttps://www.audubon.org/news/2023-audubon-photography-awards-winners-and-honorable-mentions \n2022 winners \nhttps://www.audubon.org/news/the-2022-audubon-photography-awards-top-100 \n2021 winners \nhttps://www.audubon.org/news/the-2021-audubon-photography-awards-top-100 \n2020 winners\nhttps://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2020/the-2020-audubon-photography-awards-winners \n2019-2017 winners \nhttps://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2019/the-2019-audubon-photography-awards-top-100 \nhttps://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2018/the-2018-audubon-photography-awards-top-100 \nhttps://www.audubon.org/news/the-2017-audubon-photography-awards-top-100 \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/national-audubon-societys-annual-photo-contest-entry-period/
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SUMMARY:Climate Watch Winter Season - January 15th-February 15th
DESCRIPTION:Climate Watch Winter Season – January 15th-February 15th \nClimate Watch – The summer and winter seasons repeat each year.\nClimate Watch is sponsored by the National Audubon Society (NAS) & takes place during two distinct seasons—winter (January 15-February 15) and summer (May 15-June 15). Below is the alert for any season (winter or summer) . \nLike the Christmas bird count this is a chance to help create “citizen science” for birds. Climate Watch focuses on these target species: Eastern Bluebird\, Mountain Bluebird\, Western Bluebird\, White-breasted Nuthatch\, Red-breasted Nuthatch\, Brown-headed Nuthatch\, Pygmy Nuthatch\, American Goldfinch\, Lesser Goldfinch\, Painted Bunting\, Eastern Towhee\, and Spotted Towhee. \nThese birds are easy to identify\, have an enthusiastic constituency\, and Audubon’s climate models for these species offer strong predictions for range shifts for us to test. In future years\, Climate Watch may include additional target species threatened by climate change. We believe that western bluebird and painted bunting are not normally in SD. All the other birds occur in all or parts of SD. \nVisit this page to see where these birds are in SD\, and which are near you: \nhttps://www.sdakotabirds.com/species_main.htm\nLocation Climate Watch focuses on areas of predicted change for these 12 species at each location across the continent. Audubon provides volunteers with online mapping tools with a grid of 10 km x 10 km squares showing species-specific predictions for each square based on the climate models. A Climate Watch Coordinator can help select your location and survey square. If you are participating on your own\, use the online maps to decide in which square to do your surveys. You will be able to see which squares are already “claimed”. \nHow to count Volunteers should first make sure to read through all of the materials including the full protocol manual. The Climate Watch protocol is different than any other birding program. Then using the planning done with the online maps\, volunteers survey appropriate habitat for the target species within a square and conduct 12 point counts of five minutes each within one morning\, then record the number and species of all birds seen or heard within 100 meters. Participants send the data to the National Audubon Society. \nHow data will be used  Audubon’s 2019 climate change report\, ‘Survival By Degrees\, – https://www.audubon.org/climate/survivalbydegrees – reveals that up to two-thirds of North American birds are vulnerable to extinction due to climate change. For example\, the beautiful Mountain Bluebird is vulnerable because in the vast majority of its summer range\, the climate conditions that this bird needs—temperature\, amount of rainfall\, and other environmental factors—will shift northward and eastward. This bird may be able to move into new areas over time\, or it may struggle to adapt. To test the report’s predictions\, Audubon has developed Climate Watch\, which aims to document species’ responses to climate change and test Audubon’s climate models by having volunteers in the field look for birds where Audubon’s climate models predict they will be in the 2020s. This information helps Audubon target our conservation work to protect birds. See the Climate Watch results page here to see our early reports and results from the data received by Climate Watch volunteers so far! \nLink to the Climate-watch program on the National Audubon Society web page \nhttps://www.audubon.org/conservation/climate-watch \nClimate watch instructions for participants \nhttps://www.audubon.org/news/participant-resources-climate-watch\nClimate watch for beginners webinar\, – this has much of the same info as our November meeting \nhttps://audubon.zoom.us/rec/share/xe9NAZTe6WVOf7fz2kbRAYAQMI66eaa8hCFL_fNZn0k3a8uNjHkvp4-EZzq7vlq_?startTime=1588186808000
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/climate-watch-winter-season-january-15th-february-15th/
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SUMMARY:SD Legislature Floor votes Monday on  HB 1043 (lithium tax) & SB 14 (expand hunt coyotes w/ snowmobiles)
DESCRIPTION:Below find alerts on bills related to environment on the floors (Senate & house) Monday\n\n**Senate Bill 14\, \nWould permit taking of coyotes by invitees of landowner from snowmobiles in certain conditions – hunting from snowmobiles is currently not for any species except for coyotes & then only by landowner.  PHAS OPPOSES THIS BILL. .  \nIn Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources on Thursday 1/18/24\, 10 am CT. This bill passed out of committee with an amendmen by a unanimous vote and was placed on the consent calendar. The amendment added was to prevent harassment of coyotes before being shot.\n It was expected on the Senate floor on Monday the 22nd  but was delayed till Tuesday. It passed with 3 votes against. Folks needed to ask their senators to remove it from consent calendar.    Visit our web site https://phas-wsd.org/sd-legislature/  for list of all Senate members.\n We object to this as cruelty to animals & indiscriminate coyote hunting doesn’t work to reduce the population.\nThe current law forbids snowmobile chasing or driving coyotes (or any animal)\, but the proposed new law does not prohibit those actions for landowners/lessee and invited guests with coyotes.\n\nHere is a link to our letter against that explains issues with the bill: https://www.scribd.com/document/700546391/Please-Remove-SB-14-From-the-Consent-CalendarF  .\n\nHere is a link to a discussion sheet for arguments against indiscriminant coyote hunting  – https://projectcoyote.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/PC_SAB_Coyote-Facts_FINAL_2020_08.pdf   \nSenator Nesiba got it removed from the Consent Calendar. The bill passed the Senate on Tuesday with 3 Senators voting against it – see vote: https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Vote/78751 \nWe did not start notice & working on this bill soon enough. It still has to go to the House and would likely get sent to House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee (but that hasn’t happened yet) so we ask you to contact folk in the House..\n\n\n\n**HB 1043\, https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24879\n**HB 1043 would classify lithium as a precious metal for the purpose of taxation and to authorize a new tax. PHAS SUPPORTS\, House Agriculture & NR Comm\, passed amended\, It will be on the House Floor on Monday the 22nd after 2 pm. The bill passed out of the House  57 to 9  and is sent to Senate Energy and Commerce Committee\n\nLast year a similar bill made it out of the house but was killed in the Senate – in 2023 it was alleged bill needed to be rewritten for technical reasons . This passed the House floor\, with a strong vote in favor\, but last year a similar bill passed the House\nbut was killed in the Senate\, alleged to be due to technical issues with writing of that old bill.\nIf you go to our web page on the Legislature\, you can learn about bills there.
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/sd-legislature-floor-votes-monday-on-hb-1043-lithium-tax-sb-14-expand-hunt-coyotes-w-snowmobiles/
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