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Volume 47 Berkeley, Calif. November 1965 Number 11

DR. CURL TO DESCRIBE EUROPEAN TRIP

Dr. A. Laurence Curl will give a talk on his recent European trip at the regular monthly meeting of the Golden Gate Audubon Society, Thurs- day, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. His talk will be illustrated with slides, most of which were taken by Mrs. Curl. The meeting will be held in the Rotary Natural Science Center in Lakeside Park, Oakland.

The evening will start with a no-host dinner at 6:30 p.m. in Lovely’s Buffet, 336 Grand Avenue near Perkins. The price of dinner will vary with your selection from the regular menu, ranging from $1.50 to $2.00. Lovely’s Buffet and the Natural Science Center are within easy walking distance of each other. Plan to come and bring friends to the dinner and the meeting - RICHARD and MARY LEINBACH, Program Co-Chairmen

FIELD TRIPS FOR NOVEMBER

Saturday, November 6, to Orinda and San Pablo Reservoirs. Many ducks, geese, and shorebirds winter here. The oak and shrub covered slopes are good habitat for many land birds. We shall also explore the new Briones Reservoir. Meet at 9 a.m. in front of the Orinda Theatre near the Orinda Crossroads. Leader, A. Laurence Curl, 526-7004.

Wednesday, November 17, to Aquatic Park, Berkeley and Lake Mer- ritt, Oakland. Meet at 9 a.m. at the Audubon Nature Training Center, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, to visit the Center, which Golden Gate Audubon Society co-sponsors with Berkeley Recreation & Parks Dept. Also look for wintering waterfowl, shorebirds, and waders. Aquatic Park is located be- tween the Eastshore Freeway and the Southern Pacific tracks and extends from University to Ashby avenues. Enter at the foot of Bancroft Way or Addison Street and turn left. The Nature Training Center faces the former model yacht pond at the extreme southeast end of the park, almost to the old KRE tower. Leader, Phyllis Lindley, 848-4043. In the afternoon we’ll visit Lake Merritt under the direction of Paul Covel.

Thursday-Saturday, November 25-27, Tule Lake and Klamath Falls. See September and October Gull for details. Meet at Refuge Headquarters at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday. — MRS VALERIA DaCOSTA, Field Trips Chairman.

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FOR THE CHILDREN

The first field trip for children will be led by Dr. Albert Boles on Saturday, November 6. It will start at 10:30 a. in. at Mountain View Cem- etery in Oakland. Mountain View Cemetery is at the end of Piedmont A' venue. Coming from Oakland take the #42 bus on Broadway to Piedmont and Pleasant Valley. Walk one block to the cemetery. From San Francisco, take “C” bus, which also stops at Piedmont and Pleasant Valley. Every month a trip for children will be announced in the Gull.

— JANET NICKELSBURG, Education Chairman.

"INHERIT THE WILD" - NOVEMBER 22

Plave you ever seen a mammal that stuffs food into it mouth with its whiskers? Have you ever seen an eagle take a bath?

Watch them on the next Audubon Wildlife Film on Monday, Novem- ber 22, at 8:15 p.m. when D. J. Nelson brings his film, “Inherit the Wild,” to the Berkeley Little Theatre. Featured in his color film are such rare species as the whooping crane, the Everglade kite, and the manatee, least known mammal in the U.S.

Mr. Nelson is deeply concerned about the dangers facing thse crea- tures. In less than 300 years, more than 600 known species of animals have disappeared from our world. And science has yet to find an example of any animal (with the exception of man) that has caused the complete extinc- tion of any other animal. “Inherit the Wild” voices the conviction that all living things have a role in nature’s master plan, and that we must be increasingly vigilant and determined in our efforts to block interference with the natural workings of our wild heritage.

Some species have been saved from the very brink of extinction by wise protective law's and intelligent management of wildlife refuges. Among them are the beautiful American and snowy egrets and the trum- peter swan. The American alligator, now' protected in several states by local laws, is shown in close-up sequences building its nest and laying its eggs. From beginning to end, “Inherit the Wild” is a fascinating collection of intimate studies of American w'ildlife. Co-existence today is a familiar political w'ord, but it has a biological application as well. Here is the story of man’s new awakening to the need for co-existence w'ith the entities of nature, and his truly civilized attempts to perpetuate our w'ildlife.

D. J. Nelson was born, of Danish ancestry, on the Uintah Ouray Indian Reservation in northeastern Utah. He grew' up steeped in the ancient traditions of the first Americans, and schooled in the arts of wmodsmanship. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have traveled in seventy-two countries, (their young daughter has accompanied them in fifty-four), working on adventure and wildlife films. Thirty-eight of these films have been shown on national and international television. As staff photographer and member of the famous Camera Caravan, filming episodes for the Jack Douglas “Seven League Boots” television series, Mr. Nelson established himself as one of the country’s most renowned documentary film producers. “I Search for Adventure,” “Bold Journey,” and “Expedition” are but a few of the net- work television shows which have featured his motion pictures.

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Mr. Nelson holds a pilot’s license, a navigator’s ticket and a master diver s certificate. He is an active member of the Los Angeles Adventurers Club, the Ice Caves Speleolgical Society, and past president of the Ex- plorers League. As an Audubon lecturer, he is a member of the National Audubon Society and a vigorous defender of the principles which this organization represents.

Single admission to the Audubon Wildlife Films is $1.50 ($1.00 for students under 18.) Season tickets sell for $5.00 ($3.00 for students under 18) and will now include four films. Tickets are obtainable from Audubon Wildlife Films, Box 103, Berkeley. Please enclose check to Golden Gate Audubon Society with a stamped, self-addressed envelope. The Berkeley Little Theatre is on Allston Way at Grove, and the doors will open at 7:45 p.m.

COVEl'S CONSERVATION CORNER

A greater awakening amongst Americans, including more legislators and editors, to perils confronting America Out-of-Doors and the outdoor way of life, is attested by a new surge of books, magazine articles, news columns and reviews. The Destruction of California by Raymond F. Das- mann and A Wilderness Bill of Rights by Justice William 6. Douglas are two volumes we urge you to read immediately. Mr. Ferol Egan in his re- view of Dasmann’s book in the September Sierra Club Bulletin says “. . . it might well have been subtitled ‘A Handbook for Plome-made Disaster.’ ” In other words — continued lack of master planning and control of urban sprawl, loss of farm lands and natural resources, befouling of air and water could result in the nightmare world described in some chapters of Das- mann’s book. Crisis in Our Cities by Lewis Herber is another recent volume recommended by Sierra Club reviewers.

“America’s Last Chance” by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and “Esthetics and Economics” by Hugo Fisher, Administrator of the Resources Agency of California, are two significant contributions to this September Sierra Club Bulletin which we also recommend urgently that you read. ( Borrow them from a Sierra Club friend if you are not a member. ) Students of the Bible will be interested in one of Mr. Fisher’s concluding quotes from Isaiah: “Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field ’til there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.” Now drive out and look at those newest subdivisions!

“Youth Needs the Out-of-Doors,” an article by Wichita industrialist- conservationist Sheldon Coleman in Sports Afield for last May, recently- caught our eye. This proved a morale booster after reading some essays by- certain learned sociologists who believe that new generations of Americans reared in urban environments will be weaned away from outdoor pursuits such as nature-study, hiking, camping, hunting and fishing. But Mr. Cole- man believes with a lot of us that such a trend with increasing leisure could be a curse. He wonders why we spend billions on our children’s education and spend pennies by comparison preparing them for 30-40 hour work

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weeks and intelligent, healthful leisure activities. He cites the well-publi- cized finding of Edgar Hoover of the F.B.I. that .... case histories of most-wanted criminals over the years revealed that fewer than one pel cent had ever been Boy Scouts. Then there is the eloquent testimony of

Jailor J. J. Jones of Knox County, Tenn., “ that of 10,000 inmates over

a period of years . . . fewer than two per cent had owned a hunting and fishing license when arrested. We may well set up a study some day to determine how many youths exposed to Audubon membership and other nature-study groups wind up in the toils of the law! Oh yes, Conrad L. Wirth, former National Park Service chief, has more to say along such lines in the September Parks and Recreation.

Well, we realize we’ve conducted this column like a book review and haven’t given you many specifics on crucial conservation issues close to home. These you have had and will get again all too soon. We will remind you that desperate efforts are still under way to save the Jedediah Smith Redwoods from a freeway disaster — as well as to secure a Redwood National Park. Morro Bay appears to be threatened by some elaborate im- poundment-marina development on which we await more facts. And we waterfowl-lovers must await this winter season or even next summer to learn how great a mistake was the over-riding of U.S. Fish & Wildlife and other neutral experts who urged reduction of duck bag limits this fall! — PAUL COVEL, Conservation Chairman.

MONTEREY BOAT TRIP REPORT

On October 2nd 120 Audubonites, representing ten or more west coast Audubon Societies plus many eastern visitors, boarded three boats for Golden Gate Audubon’s annual Fall pelagic trip. The fourth boat with a party of four from Santa Maria also joined us at sea. The weather was mild and despite the very calm water the birds appeared in good numbers, including the following 26 species: pink-footed, New Zealand, sooty, and Manx shearwaters; ashy and black petrels; brown pelican; Brandt’s and pelagic cormorants; red and Northern phalaropes; pomarine, parasitic, and ( 1) long-tailed jaeger; (2) skua; Western and Heermann’s gulls and many Sabine’s gulls; Arctic and elegant terns; common murre; Xantus’ and ancient murrelets; Cassin’s and rhinoceros auklets; tufted puffin.

Sharks and whales were also sighted, and as if trying to distract us from our bird-watching activities, a large school of playful porpoises entertained us for many minutes. As far as the eye could see, they were leaping high out of the water and a few show-offs among them were doing complete somersaults in the air. This successful pelagic trip was guided by the following leaders: Russell Wilson, Arnold Small, Guy McCaskie, Rich Stallcup, Ted Chase, Kenneth Schulz, and co-leaders Ted Chandik and Bob Paxton. — VAL DaCOSTA.

NEW ACREAGE PLANNED FOR CANYON RANCH

In view of the encouraging financial report which appears in this issue of the Gull, the Directors of Audubon Canyon Ranch at the annual

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meeting on October 5 unanimously voted to enter into negotiations for the purchase of a parcel of land adjoining the ranch on the northwest. The land in question, approximately ninety acres, would extend the ranch’s holdings about 700 feet along the lagoon and along the road at the top of Bolinas Ridge. The line between the lagoon and the road would run along the northwest rim of the Garden Club Canyon, roughly parallel to the present boundary. Surveys are yet to be made.

The present owners have indicated that they will give the ranch a very fair price per acre on the land and a manageable, flexible purchase agreement. The Directors, who are not just land-hungry and whose future responsibility it will be to raise the necessary purchase funds, considered four prime factors in reaching their decision. Relocation of the northwest boundary line would: (1) Eliminate the present easement through the Garden Club Canyon, (2) Fully protect the watershed from which all the ranch’s water is derived, (3) Double the trail network by adding another road between the lagoon and the ridge road, (4) Protect the northwest slope of the Garden Club Canyon from development and buildings which would overlook it.

The Directors showed both wisdom and courage in taking this step. I know that all the members of Golden Gate and Marin Audubon societies will give them their approval now and the support they will need in the future. — WILLIAM S. PICHER, Chairman, Audubon Canyon Ranch.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT - AUDUBON CANYON RANCH, INC.

At end of 1964-65 Fiscal Year (Aug. 31, 1965):

Purchase price of ranch $337,500

Credits to date 238,500

Balance Due by October, 1972 99,000

Our assets consisted of:

Cash in savings banks $ 11,403

Investments, consisting principally of Crocker-Citizens National Bank Common

Trust Fund 41.189

Total current assets 52,592

Pledges ( estimated ) to contribute during

next seven vears 37,000

Total $ 89,592

Still to raise by October, 1972 $ 9,408

The following officers were elected for a one-year term: Chairman: William S. Picher; 1st Vice-Chairman: Aileen Pierson; 2nd Vice-Chairman: Dudley S. Hubbard; Secretary: Anita S. Parker; Treasurer: Erline Hevel.

Canyon Ranch is under the joint sponsorship of Golden Gate and Marin Audubon societies. Contributions (tax deductible) may be sent to Audubon Canyon Ranch, Inc., Box 2113, San Francisco 94126.

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1965

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NOVEMBER

CANYON RANCH MEMORIAL GIFTS

Gifts of remembrance were made to Audubon Canyon Ranch

In Memory of: Gift of:

Mary Turner Underhill (one acre) Bertha Underhill

Dr. Louis L. Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Frank Delfino

Madame De Lenclos Mrs. Morse Erskine

Anna Cushing Leavens Mr. and Mrs. Woodford Harrison

— DR. ALBERT BOLES, Sanctuary & Memorial Fund Chairman.

OUTDOOR EDUCATION FOR ADULT LEADERS

All adult leaders of youth are invited to enroll in the Audubon Nature Training Program for fall-winter classes at Aquatic Park, Berkeley. The leader's leader in Phyllis Lindley, and the program is sponsored by the Golden Gate Audubon Society in cooperation with the Berkeley Recrea- tion Department. In an outdoor “classroom’’ that resembles a vacant lot or playground, Miss Lindley uses a teaching approach that aims at stimulating awareness and inquiry, and demonstrates how to observe, enjoy and inter- pret natural processes and living things. Each l[/2 -hour meeting includes at least one hour out of doors. Elementary and student teachers meet twice a week for four weeks. Recreation workers, camp counselors, day camp and youth group leaders, and parents meet once a w-eek for 4 weeks. Work- shops or special meetings for groups with particular projects may be arranged. For schedules, enrollment fees and further information write to Audubon Nature Training Program, 2426 Bancroft Way, Berkeley 94704, or telephone 549-1038.

On September 28 the Richmond Independent published a 10-inch editorial praising the educational nature centers of the National Audubon Society and hoping there will be 1,000 “green islands for learning” by 1985 and twice that number by the year 2000.

"MEXICO'S CALIFORNIA" - A LAUREL REYNOLDS FILM

Laurel Reynolds will present her newest film, “ Mexico’s California ” at the Oakland Auditorium Theater, Thursday, November 18, at 8 p.m.

Mrs. Reynolds’ outstanding film explores untouched Baja California and the off-shore islands, semi-tropical seaside, mountains, and wildlife.

Tickets are available from the Snow' Museum of Natural Science, 274 Nineteenth St., Oakland 12, or from Breuner’s Box Offices, or at the door. Admission is $1.65 (75c for Juniors) and proceeds will go to the museum’s acquisition fund.

"BAY OF GOLD" FILM AVAILABLE

The Save San Francisco Bay Association, Box 925, Berkeley 1, has available for free use the excellent film “Bay of Gold”. This is an hour-long film on the San Francisco Bay. It is recommended that at the time of its use all audiences receive our “Bay or River” maps, which can be sent in the required number at the time the film is sent. — MRS. CLARK KERR, Vice-President, Save San Francisco Bay Association.

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1965

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NOVEMBER

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR CHRISTMAS COUNTS

shin of ' ( ioldei i ' C ■ ite "'uV 1 " \ I i)c j1(i*d Saturday, January 1, under the joint sponsor-

smp or golden Gate and Mann Audubon societies. Mrs Grace Miller has main pm

SEvSm get-together at the end of the day at her home in Internest

uX or c T Oh .Pam?xV-,,n thee CTnt (and has not been contacted ) should C n’ 1«8uMllvia St-’ tpt 2> Berkeley 9, (phone 841-1893) by Non ember 15 if possible. lie hopes to make assignments to areas by that date If anyone could bring a hunting dog for finding rails or a battery-operated tape recorder

he ^ 36 VT'. he,lpful Last y(;ar- as ^ five of the last six years,

the lomales Bay count was second in the nation ( 186 species).

Hhe Oakland count will be held Sunday, December 26, and we need an organizer oi it Phis many volunteers. Details will be in the December Gull.

CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS CAN HELP CONSERVATION PROGRAM

NV -CDliSitn?a'S sh°PPers who. buy gifts at the National Audubon Center 2426 Bancroft a> , Berkeley, w ill be helping the Audubon Society's conservation program. Among the many gifts m stock are books, records, paintings, stationery, art objects, pins, bird ‘Coders, binoculars and special gifts for children. All the items listed in the Christmas Gilt Catalog mailed to members from Audubon s New \ork headquarters are available in the Berkeley Center. Shopping hours are 12 to 5, Monday through Friday, and ] 1 to 4 Satin days. Gifts may also be ordered bv mail. For further information phone 848-4042.

OBSERVATIONS

A black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus ) was banded by Lillian Hen- ningsen on September 22 at the new Point Reyes Bird Observatory.

Near the firehouse at Rodeo Lagoon on September 28 Ted Chase and John Larson observed a blackpoll warbler. Rodeo Lagoon also had two pectoral sandpipers during the week of September 26 — October 2, observed by Val DaCosta, Bud Fry. and other Audubon leaders. Mrs. Fry’s Tuesday class watched Vaux’s swifts near the Lagoon bridge on September 28.

According to Sacramento Audubon’s October Observer, Dr. Joseph Greenberg and Ted Chandik sighted a white-rumped sandpiper ( Erolia fuscicollis ) in the Wood- land Sugar Ponds early in September.

At the end of the day (4:30 p.m. ) on Elsie Roemer’s Alameda field trip, September 21, a common murre was resting on San Francisco Bay where it is now being filled between Bay Farm Island and the airport dike, and an immature green heron was on the other side of the dike. Next year this part of the Bay will be filled with dirt for the huge Bay Farm Island tract development! Dump trucks are running along the dike about every ten minutes.

On October 5, after having spent the day looking for migrants in Tilden Park, Inez Troxell found a Lincoln’s sparrow in her garden in Kensington, and the following morning she saw two of them about ten feet from her window.

Dick Erickson and Scott Terrill spotted a Sora at Jewel Lake in Tilden Park on September 18.

NEW MEMBERS

We welcome the following new members to our Society: from Berkeley. Miss Nancy K. Hayes, Mr. Lucien Resa Ulmies, Mr. Burt Zabin; from Lafayette, Mr. William Greuner; from San Francisco, Miss Arlyn C. Peterson, Mr. Edward J. Torney, Mr. A. M. Vollmer.— MARJORIE N. WILSON, Membership Chairman. Our total membership is now 1,235.

( The National Audubon Society membership department in New York is changing over to an automated system, which has caused some delay in forwarding names of new members to the local branches.)

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GOLDEN GATE AUDUBON SOCIETY, INC. P. O. Box 103

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94701 Return Postage Guaranteed

Non-profit Organization U. S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 590 BERKELEY. CALIF.

Library, California Acaioiay of Sc iencs

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DATED MATERIAL

1965 THE GULL NOVEMBER

GOLDEN GATE AUDUBON SOCIETY, INC.

Established January 25, 1917 A Branch of the National Audubon Society since 1948

President A. Warren Larson 44 Rincon Road, Berkeley 7 525-9149

Vice President Miss Bertha Underhill 35 Tamalpais Rd., Berkeley 848-0131

Vice President _Robert E. Peterson . 575'/z Liberty St., San Francisco 826-7079

Treasurer Mrs. Alice D. Radcliffe. 2101 Bay St., San Francisco JO 7-5856

Recording Secretary Miss Patricia Triggs 2038 33rd Ave., San Francisco MO 4-8502

Corresponding Secretary Miss Marjorie M. Atkinson 4 Willow Lane, Kensington 325-2702

Director Miss Aileen Pierson 810 Gonzalez Dr., San Francisco JU 7-4163

Director Miss Erline Hevel 425 Ulloa St., San Francisco 661-4251

Director Robert C. DaCosta, Jr 2090 Pacific Ave., San Francisco 9 931-5257

Editor Mrs. Violet Homem 6911 Armour Dr., Oakland 11 655-8886

Field Trips Chairman Mrs. Valeria DaCosta 2090 Pacific Ave., San Francisco 9 931-5257

Membership Chairmen Mrs. Marjorie N. Wilson 3839 Divisadero St., San Francisco WE 1-2371

Program Co-Chairmen Richard and Mary Leinbach 20) Purdue Ave., Kensington 526-7649

Education Chairman Mrs. Janet Nickelsburg 2585 Union, San Francisco 23 WA 1-9449

Sanctuary & Memorial

Fund Chairman Dr. Albert Boles 854 Longridge Rd., Oakland 10 GL 1-6267

Wildlife Film Chairman Mrs. Frances Ellen Fallgatter 406 El Cerrho, Piedmont 11 OL 5-9582

Conservation Chairman Paul F. Covel 2860 Delaware St., Oakland 2 KE 6-4120

Canyon Ranch Film

Distribution Chairman .Mrs. Bonnie Smith 555 Dewey Blvd., San Francisco OV 1-7635

Audubon Canyon Ranch

contributions Send to Box 2113, San Francisco 947126

Claims for missing numbers of THE GULL should be sent to the Editor. Changes of address should be sent to the Membership Chairman.

Monthly meetings second Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Joint Membership, Local and National, $8.50 per year, includes AUDUBON MAGAZINE and THE GULL. Subscription to THE GULL separately $2.00 per year.

Vis* the Conservation Center of the NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY 2426 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California 94701 848-4042

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