Student Bird Art Contest: K-12 students who live in Humboldt County--enter our bird art contest! $550 to be awarded; divisions to be determined based on total number of entries received. Special prizes for best rendition of a bird in its natural habitat. The contest is co-sponsored by the RRAS and Friends of the Arcata Marsh (FOAM). See our flyer here.
Student Nature Writing Contest: For the seventh year, the RRAS is sponsoring a student nature writing contest for Humboldt or Del Norte County student in grades 4-12. Up to three
cash prizes will be awarded for the best essay(s) or poem(s) by a on the topic, "What nature means to me." All winners will be published on the RRAS website and awards will be presented at the Godwit Days
Festival in mid-April. See entry guidelines here.
RRAS Volunteer "Blurb" Quiz
How much do YOU know about your fellow RRAS volunteers? Try to match the
volunteer statement (letters A-W) to the name of who said it (numbers 1-23.)- Download the quiz here.
Complete issues of The Sandpiper, from July 2006 to present, are available for download below.
Individual articles published between 1996 and 2006 can be found in our Archives. Archived aticles are grouped by year, author, and type. They include compiled articles from Field Notes, the President’s Column, Bird of the Month, Tom Leskiw's Columns, John Hewston's Chapter History, Announcements, and Miscellaneous Articles by various authors.
For a fee (to be determined), you may also receive the newsletter as an insert to ECONEWS, a bi-monthly publication of the Northcoast Environmental Center.
The Redwood Region Audubon Society currently publishes The Sandpiper six times per year.