Talk:Point Blue Conservation Science
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editThe following additional sources published by Cunard at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Point Blue Conservation Science may be used to improve the article. North America1000 09:35, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
The abstract notes: "One scientific organization, the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, was instrumental in re- solving an environmental controversy in the early 1980s over the use of gill nets off central California The gill-net fishery was killing thousands of birds annually. The Point Reyes Bird Observatory's use of its scientific data facilitated negotiation and formed the basis for the threat of litigation. These efforts spurred enforcement of federal wildlife legislation and helped forge a permanent solution acceptable to state and federal environmental agencies, conservation groups, and local fishermen."
The article notes: "In a way, PRBO was born of this happy circumstance of geography. In the early 1960s, members of the Western Bird Banding Association 'discovered' Point Reyes while exploring likely rare-bird spots. These passionate amateurs knew of British bird observatories where volunteers banded birds and studied avian populations in detail. In 1965, the group moved into its first building, a former bunkhouse on the Heims Ranch in the newly established Point Reyes National Seashore. Today, PRBO is a membership-based organization with a staff of about 20 professional scientists and an operating budget of more than $1 million a year.
The article notes: "This is what the researchers at the Point Reyes Bird Observatory's Palomarin Field Station like to see. They track the health, numbers and movements of birds in this 100-acre field of coastal brush near Bolinas. The observatory's main office, two small wooden buildings tucked off Highway 1 north of Stinson Beach, are as unobtrusive as its nets. But it is the headquarters for scientists doing research throughout the Western United States and parts of Latin America. ... The observatory started research 31 years ago. Original projects at Palomarin and at the Farallones studying seabirds, marine mammals and fish are still running."
The article notes: "The Point Reyes Bird Observatory is moving to Petaluma. The organization, which now calls itself PRBO Conservation Science, has evolved during its 40-year history into an organization with a staff of 125, an annual budget of $6 million and a paid membership of 4,000. ... The organization does 65 percent of its work for state, federal and municipal governments, as well as nonprofit groups like the Nature Conservancy, helping to create statistics on the number of birds and other wildlife in certain ecological areas."
The article notes: "The story comes from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, a private non-profit scientific enterprise at the southern tip of the Point of Reyes National Seashore near Bolinas. To those who work there, it's a highly rewarding center for pure research into the ecoloyg of birds — how they live, for how long, where they come from, where they go, their habitats and their physiology. To the lay visitor, it's a fascinating place where tiny, beautiful and deceptively fragile looking birds are caught in loose nylon nets, weighed, measured, blown upon, banded, sometimes de-loused, and finally set free in perfectly good condition."
The article notes: "Immediately within the southern border of the Point Reyes National Seashore and totally dependent, even as are the birds it counts, on the continued wild state of the southern cliffs and forests, there is a unique and little known establishment. It is the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, started in 1965 and the first such bird observatory to be established in the United States."
The article notes: "It is just such mysteries of bird life that constitute the chief reason for the existence of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, organized three years ago by ornithologists and bird enthusiasts and supported by public memberships and donations. It is the only such observatory in North America, although there are several in Europe and Asia."
The article notes: "The independent, non-profit Point Reyes Bird Observatory operates on a $600,000-a-year budget, 40 percent from its members, 35 percent from government contracts (National Science Foundation, Fish and Wildlife, and others) and 25 percent from corporate contributions."