Everyone is invited to a free meeting of the St. Paul Audubon Society on Thursday, January 14, 2010, to hear Dan McGuiness, Lifelong River Advocate, speak on "Restoring the Mississippi River for Birds and People."
Dan McGuiness spent his entire career of 41 years going against the flow to preserve two of Minnesota’s finest waterways, the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers. Humans haven’t been kind to rivers and, as Dan points out, the Mississippi has suffered through 300 years of lock and dam building, dredging and human settlement in its watershed—but work is under way to rescue North America’s biggest river. Dan will provide an overview of the Big River, from its headwaters to the Gulf, examples of habitat restoration along its route, and advice on what local citizens can do to help. After all, rivers are important to birds, with more than 300 species nesting along the Mississippi. Since his retirement, Dan has been working as a conservation consultant on river issues. Many will recognize him as last year’s St. Paul Audubon president and others know him as the supreme “river rat,” willing to go anywhere, anytime, to preserve rivers and their wildlife. He had been national Audubon’s director of conservation policy for the Mississippi before his retirement in 2008, and currently serves on several conservation organization boards. Everyone is invited to this free Saint Paul Audubon program on Thursday, January 14 at 7:00 p.m. at Fairview Community Center, 1910 West County Road B in Roseville, just west of Fairview Avenue. The event is open to the public, with free parking. Refreshments will be served after the meeting. For more information, call Tim Nixon at 651-353-0756. ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
