BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Prairie Hills Audubon Society - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://phas-wsd.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Prairie Hills Audubon Society REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20230312T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20231105T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20240310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20241103T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20250309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20251102T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240515T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240615T235900 DTSTAMP:20260416T165201 CREATED:20240511T015343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240511T015801Z UID:12602-1715731200-1718495940@phas-wsd.org SUMMARY:Climate Watch\, Spring/Summer season 5/15/24-6/15/24 DESCRIPTION:Climate Watch is Audubon’s biannual community science program that enlists volunteer bird-lovers across North America to tally for twelve target bird species \nClimate Watch – Summer Season – May 15th-June 15th\, 2024 Climate Watch \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-spring-summer-season/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240531T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240602T130000 DTSTAMP:20260416T165201 CREATED:20240515T051753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T022712Z UID:12679-1717174800-1717333200@phas-wsd.org SUMMARY:SD Ornithologist Union's Spring Meeting - Custer\, SD DESCRIPTION:SD Ornithologist Union’s Spring Meeting – Custer\, SD \nCuster SD May 31-June 2\, 2024\, All gatherings will be at the Custer County Annex Building*\, 447 Crook St. Custer SD\, in the Pine room. For more information: https://sdou.org/SDOU/NextMeeting.aspx \nFriday evening  5 pm- 7 pm registration/social  then: \n 7pm-8 pm Friday with a presentation ( by well known landscape photographer/author/and historian Paul Horstead\, as they celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Custer expedition. His recreation of historical photos taken during the 1874 survey of the Black Hills by the US Calvery\, show the history and the changes that have come to Western South Dakota in the past 150years.   \n 7 am- 6 pm on Saturday are Pplanned field trips that will head in all four directions – north to granite peaks\, south to the Whitney Preserve (SW of Hot Springs)\, east to Custer State Park\,  and west to Hell Canyon and Boles/Roby Canyon. These field trip options repeat on Sunday morning.\, except Saturday field trips last 7 am- 6 pm but Sunday’s are shorter. \n6-7 pm Saturday – Dinner/Banquete: Hillbilly BBQ will provide their locally famous BBQ Brisquit with sides of cowboy beans\, corn on the cob and chopped veggie salad known as “Grandma’s salad”. Non meat option will be stuffed grilled portabella mushroom and the same sides. A selection of pies for dessert\, provided by The Purple Pie Place.  \n7 pm-8pm MT\, Saturday – Evening’s keynote speaker: Maggie Engler\, life long birder and director of the Black Hills Raptor Center will bring some of her education birds for a chance to see these raptors very up close and personal . \n7 am – 12 am\, Sunday Field trips – with  same 4  trip options  as Saturday  \n12-1 pm –  a count off. \nRegistration is $30\, meals may be $24/@ for adult and $12/@ for child – to  get  meal please be register by 5/24/24. Link to on-line registration \nhttps://sdou.org/SDOU/Registration.aspx?mtg=19 \n  URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/sd-ornithologist-unions-spring-meeting-custer-sd/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240602T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240602T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T165201 CREATED:20240531T160258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T160258Z UID:13297-1717322400-1717336800@phas-wsd.org SUMMARY:Native Plant Road Show\, Courtesy of SDSU Native Plant Initiative - Rapid City DESCRIPTION:Native Plant Road Show\, Courtesy of SDSU Native Plant Initiative – Rapid City \nSunday\, June 2\, 10 am – 2 pm at Jolly Lane Greenhouse\, Rapid City\nNative plants will be sold. \nOn Saturday 6/1/24\, they will be in Spearfish URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/native-plant-road-show-courtesy-of-sdsu-native-plant-initiative-rapid-city/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240602T225000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240602T225900 DTSTAMP:20260416T165201 CREATED:20240525T195836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240601T010857Z UID:13050-1717368600-1717369140@phas-wsd.org SUMMARY:Deadline to send written comments to SDGFP Commission June 2024 Meeting - Act to Protect Raccoons DESCRIPTION:Midnight CT is the deadline to send written comments to SDGFP Commission June 2024 Meeting – Act to Protect Raccoons \nSunday June 2nd at just before Midnight CT is the deadline to send written comments in to SDGFP for inclusion in the public record of the meeting. If comments are late they go into the public record for the next meeting (July). \nGo to June 6th–7th Commission meeting announcement for more more details and instructions on how to submit comments or testify (at hybrid Commission meetings). https://phas-wsd.org/event/sd-game-fish-and-parks-commission-june-meeting/ \nor \nWritten comments to SDGFP Commission can be submitted at https://gfp.sd.gov/forms/positions/. To be included in the public record of the next meeting\, comments must include your complete name and city of residence and meet the submission deadline of seventy–two hours before the meeting (not including the day of the meeting) (Usually Sunday night before midnight CT or MT depending on time zone of physical meeting)  If you miss that deadline it goes to record of the next meeting .\nYou can testify at GFP meetings which are held in person and by Zoom\, generally at 2 pm on the Thursday of the meeting\, in time zone of the meeting. If there is rule finalization(s) you get 3 minutes per each rule you want to testify on. During the Open Forum\, you get 3 minutes to testify on anything. \nUnless you want to communicate directly with each Commissioner  (those comments will not be in the public record)–  https://gfp.sd.gov/commission/members/  (no deadline). You can see phones and home address at this link.  Here are likely e-mails for them.\n\n“Stephanie.Rissler@state.sd.us” \, “Jon.Locken@state.sd.us” \,  “Travis.Bies@state.sd.us” \, “Robert.Whitmyre@state.sd.us” \, “Julie.Bartling@state.sd.us” \nThe three new commissioners  e-mails likely are: \nJim.White@state.sd.us\, \, Bruce.Cull@state.sd.us\, Travis.Theel@state.sd.us\, \n\n================= \nFor  the June meeting we ask people to write or testify against the rule proposal/finalization to allow for out-of-state hunters to use hounds to hunt raccoons.  You would be objecting to the rule proposal for raccoons.  This proposal came about\, due  to petition for rule making by hound hunter in fall 2023. \nThe two goals expressed by hound hunters were to allow hound hunting friends from out-of-state to hound hunt with locals and the other goal was to help facilitate large raccoon hound hunting events. We want people to testify against collective hound hunting of small animals as a recreational event or a form of recreational sport that hunters in SD have a right to expect the Commission to facilitate. \nHere is a link to the rule proposal (that you should oppose): https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/Raccoons.Hound_HuntRule.June23Commission.pdf \nWe also ask for people to also write in opposition to hound hunting of mt. lions in the Black Hills\, which has been asked for by hound hunters and is currently being considered/thought about by the Commission/Staff\, but no formal proposal is before them yet.  We expect the changes to mountain lion hunting season (if any) and the new 2024 mt lion management Action Plan  to be offered at the July meeting\, with finalization (vote) in September.  We expect the staff to propose to expand hound hunting of cougars  in the Black Hills. \nSo we are also asking people to be writing against hound hunting of SD wildlife generally and getting your friend to do so also. \nIn SD\, all wildlife can be hound  hunted unless specifically prohibited.  Big game can’t be hunted with hounds \, with the exception that GFP allows mt. lions to be hunted by hounds\,  in Custer State Park and on the Prairie Unit.  Bobcats\, whose pelts are worth a lot of money\, can be hound hunted.  Currently raccoons can’t be hound hunted by out-of-staters. \nOglala Sioux Tribe allows hound hunting of lions within their jurisdiction by tribal and non-tribal members.  Rosebud Sioux Tribe might be allowing it in the future for their lions\, by tribal members. Nebraska allows hound hunting of lions\, but limits it to after the “boot hunt”if the “boot  hunt” fails to reach the harvest limit.. Wyoming allows hound hunting of lions and I think non-lethal pursuit (which means hound hunters can chase and tree lions without killing them).  Non-lethal pursuit has also been proposed by hound hunters for SD (but not approved) and people should write in opposition to that also. . \nAlso visit our web pages on protecting raccoons in SD\, \nhttps://phas-wsd.org/protect-sd-raccoons/ \nour mountain lion/cougar web page \nhttps://phas-wsd.org/cougar-alert/. \nand our nest predator bounty program web page. \nhttps://phas-wsd.org/sd-nest-predator-bounty-program/ \n\n=============================== \n\nPHAS November 2023 meeting on Raccoons – watch this for inspiration! \n\nNovember 29th\, 2023\nThere are two recordings of this meeting (for two speakers).  Discussion of event’s topics/speakers can be found at this link: https://phas-wsd.org/event/likely-date-phass-november-members-meeting-topic-raccoons/\nThe first half of the meeting\, was about raccoons.  The initial recording was accidentally cut off towards the end of Q&A on the raccoon presentation. Recording of meeting starts again in the next recording  where the end of first speaker’s  presentation precedes the second speakers presentation.  Nancy Hilding’s presentation is on SD Game\, Fish and Park’s policy with respect to meso-carnivores – especially the Nest Predator Bounty Program and hound hunting of raccoons.\nLinks to part 1 and part 2\nPart 1 Katherine’s presentation on raccoons: https://vimeo.com/890441992/e8cdc3f64f\nPart 2 – The end of Katherine’s & all of Nancy’s presentation:  https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/890467767/5713cb96ae\n  \n=== \n\n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \neadline to send written comments to SDGFP Commission June Meeting URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/deadline-to-send-written-comments-to-sdgfp-commission-june-meeting/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/Raccon-image-Screen-Shot-2023-12-06-at-10.16.16-AM.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR