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URL:https://newtonconservators.org/events/2023-annual-meeting-may-24-2023/
SUMMARY:2023 Annual Meeting - Wednesday May 24\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:WHAT:\nNewton Conservators’ First-Ever Outdoor Annual Dinner 
 Meeting\n\nWHEN:\nWednesday May 24\, 2023\n5:00 p.m.      Social gat
 hering with hors d’oeuvres and cash bar\n6:30 p.m.     Dinner\, busi
 ness meeting\, awards ceremony and keynote speaker\n\nWHERE:\nUnder a tent
  on the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst’s beautiful Mount Ida Camp
 us in Newton\n100 Carlson Avenue – Newton\, MA\n\nAWARDS:\n\nEnvironment
 alist of the Year:\n\nMarcia Cooper\n                    Preside
 nt\, Green Newton\n\nDirectors’ Awards\nLuis Perez Demorizi\nDirector of
  Parks &amp\; Open Space\, Newton\n\nRuth Balser\nState Representative\, C
 ommonwealth of Massachusetts\n\nPhilip Saunders\, Jr.  (posthumously acce
 pted by Elizabeth Saunders)\nOrganizer\, Public Lands Protection Act\n\nPR
 ESENTATION:\nSnowy Owls to Saw-whet Owls\nFeaturing Norman Smith\nRaptor S
 pecialist\, Mass Audubon\nSince 1981\, Norman Smith has spent countless da
 ys and nights\, in every imaginable weather condition\, observing\, captur
 ing\, banding and relocating snowy owls at Logan International Airport. Da
 ta has been collected on roosting\, hunting and behavior while on their wi
 ntering grounds. Since 2000\, satellite transmitters have been attached to
  owls to learn more about their movements. Find out what has been learned 
 to date\, what questions remain and how this project developed to include 
 research on saw-whet owls.\n\nNorman Smith is a self-taught naturalist who
  has worked for Massachusetts Audubon since 1974. He recently retired as D
 irector of Blue Hills Trailside Museum and Norman Smith Environmental Educ
 ation Center in Milton\, Massachusetts\, where he had worked for over 50 y
 ears\, and has taken on a part-time role to continue his research on rapto
 rs.\n\nNorman has studied birds of prey for over 45 years\, including reha
 bilitating the injured and successfully fostering over 1\,000 orphaned haw
 k and owl chicks into adoptive nests. His ongoing long-term projects inclu
 de trapping and banding migrating hawks and owls in the Blue Hills Reserva
 tion\, banding nestling hawks and owls\, and doing research on snowy owls 
 and other raptors wintering at Boston’s Logan International Airport. He 
 has also traveled to Alaska to study snowy owls in their native tundra hab
 itat. His research work has been published in National Geographic\, Nation
 al Wildlife\, Ranger Rick\, Yankee\, Massachusetts Wildlife\, Bird Observe
 r\, Birding\, Sanctuary\, Geo\, Nature\, Grolier Encyclopedia\, Owls of th
 e Northern Hemisphere and Owls of the World.\n\nHis mission is to use the 
 information gathered from his research to stimulate a passion in everyone 
 he meets to help us better understand\, appreciate and care for this world
  in which we live.\n\nREGISTER:\nTickets  are $45. Please reserve by May 
 15\nhttps://newtonconservators.org/events/2023-annual-meeting-may-24-2023/
 \n\nDONATE: (in lieu of attending)\n          https://newtonconse
 rvators.org/ways-to-give/\n\n\nSPONSORS:\nThank you to our generous sponso
 rs! (* List as of March 24\, 2023)\n\nNahanton Paddler / Platinum Sponsor:
 \n       Paddle Boston\nDolan Pond Nester / Gold Sponsor:\nLalor and
  Patricia Burdick\nLucy Caldwell-Stair\nThe Village Bank\n\nCrystal Lake S
 wimmer / Silver Sponsors:\nCrystal Lake Conservancy\nNCF Harvester / Frien
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