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President's Columns

Pablo Herrera

• May 2006
• April 2006
• March 2006

Jim Clark

• January 2006
• No President's Column December 2005
• November 2005
• October 2005
• September 2005
• May 2005
• April 2005
• No President's Column March 2005
• January 2005
• December 2004
• November 2004
• October 2004
• September 2004
• Summertime fun on the Klamath (July 2004)
• May 2004
• April 2004
• March 2004
• February 1998
• January 1998
• December 1997
• October 1997
• September 1997
• May 1997
• April 1997
• March 1997

Elias Elias

• no columns May 2003 - January 2004
• May 2003
• April 2003 (no column)
• January 2003 (no December 2002 column)
• November 2002
• October 2002
• May 2002
• April 2002 - New E-mail Distribution List
• March 2002

Chet Ogan

• January 2002 - Thank You
• December 2001 - Thank You
• November 2001 - Ties to the Land: Autumn
• October 2001 - Lost Coast Headlands Preserve, Coal Plant, Terrorist Tuesday
• September 2001 - NEC Burns, Lost Coast Ranch, NAWCA Grants, Audubon Center
• May 2001 - Condor Ramblings
• April 2001 - Godwit Days and Other Tidbits
• March 2001 - Population, Energy, and Conservation
• January 2001
• December 2000 - Please Renew Your Membership Through Our Local Chapter!
• October 2000 - Changes in Local Funding
• September 2000 - Ghosts of the Past: Part Two
• May 2000 - Ghosts of the Past: Part One
• April 2000
• March 2000

Hal Genger

• May 1999
• April 1999
• March 1999
• January 1999
• December 1998
• November 1998
• October 1998
• September 1998

Rob Hewitt

• January 1997
• December 1996
• November 1996
• October 1996
• September 1996

Bird of the Month

David Fix

• No March, April, or May 2006 Bird of the Month
• Burrowing Owl (January 2006)
• California Gull (December 2005)
• Snow Bunting (November 2005)
• Ruff (October 2005)
• Stilt Sandpiper (September 2005)
• No March, April, or May 2005 Bird of the Month
• Red-breasted Nuthatch (January 2005)
• Red Phalarope (December 2004)
• Yellow-billed Loon (November 2004)
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (October 2004)
• Chestnut-sided Warbler (September 2004)
• Wandering Tattler (July 2004)
• No May 2004 Bird of the Month
• American Bittern (April 2004)
• California Towhee (March 2004)
• The Wintering Semi-Hardy Landbird (January 2004)
• Long-tailed Duck (December 2003)
• Lincoln's Sparrow (November 2003)
• Buller's Shearwater (October 2003)
• Swainson's Thrush (September 2003)
• no June 2003 Bird of the Month
• Pacific Loon (May 2003)
• Black-throated Gray Warbler (April 2003)
• Rufous-crowned Sparrow (March 2003)
• Glaucous Gull (January 2003)
• Northern Shrike (December 2002)
• Rock Sandpiper (November 2002)
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak (October 2002)
• Lesser Yellowlegs (September 2002)
• Cassin's Vireo (May 2002)
• Pelagic Cormorant (April 2002)
• Purple Martin (March 2002)
• Bewick's Wren (January 2002)
• Short-tailed Shearwater (December 2001)
• Harris's Sparrow (November 2001)
• The Vagrant Landbird (October 2001)
• Barred Owl (September 2001)
• Black Swift (May 2001)
• Hammond's Flycatcher (April 2001)
• Ferruginous Hawk (March 2001)
• Western Meadowlark (January 2001)
• Merlin (December 2000)
• Short-eared Owl (November 2000)
• Swamp Sparrow (October 2000)
• Hairy Woodpecker (September 2000)
• Hermit Warbler (May 2000)
• Purple Martin (April 2000)
• Lesser Scaup (March 2000)

Stanley W. Harris

With the March 2000 issue of The Sandpiper, David Fix assumed authorship of the Bird Of The Month column. Many thanks go to Dr. Stanley Harris for his twenty years of excellent Bird Of The Month summaries!

• MacGillvray's Warbler  (May 1999)
• Bullock's Oriole (April 1999)
• Bald Eagle (March 1999)
• Ring-Billed Gull (January 1999)
• Ring-necked Duck (December 1998)
• American Robin (October 1998)
• Northern Waterthrush (October 1998)
• Snow Goose (September 1998)
• Golden Eagle (February 1998)
• Greater Yellowlegs (January 1998)
• Forester's Tern (December 1997)
• Northern Harrier (October 1997)
• Black-billed Cuckoo (September 1997)
• Wood Duck (May 1997)
• Orange-crowned Warbler (April 1997)
• Western Grebe (March 1997)
• Black-Bellied Plover (January 1997)
• White-headed Woodpecker (December 1996)
• Great Egret (November 1996)
• Mourning Dove (October 1996)
• American Dipper (September 1996)

Monthly Columns
and other articles (linked by author)

Leskiw, Tom

• Lone Star State Sojourn (March and April 2006)

• Perfectly Alive (January 2006)

• This Looks Like a Good Yard (December 2005)

• Time Changes (November 2005)

• On the Cusp (October 2005)

• There's Nothing Out There (September 2005)

• Toward a Bright Future (May 2005)

• High Island Faux Pas (April 2005)

• First (and Last) Impressions (January 2005)

• Earth Abides (December 2004)

• Not Just Looking--but See-ing (November 2004, expanded version)

• Endless Mountain Echos (October 2004)

• Rear Window (September 2004)

• Bridging the Gap (October 2004)

• A Pilgrimage to the Pond (March 2004)

• Arcata Bird Box (January 2004)

• In Pongsona's Wake (December 2003)

• Rural Legends (November 2003)

• Bonus web article: Waiting for the Weather (September 2003)

• Butterflies: In From the Periphery (May 2003)
• Along the Nectar Corridor (April 2003)
• They Say It's Your Birthday: National Wildlife Refuge System Turns 100 (March 2003)
• Claim to Fame (... The Rest of the Story), Part 3 (January 2003)
• Silver Linings: an Interview with Budding Artist, Grace Orders (November 2002)
• A Year in the Life of Crickleridge (October 2002)
• A Wonder-full Day in the Ozarks (September 2002)
• Dream Birds Redux (May 2002)
• Out of the Mouth of Babes... (April 2002)
• Claim to Fame (...the Rest of the Story), Part 2 (March 2002)
• Claim to Fame (...the Rest of the Story), Part 1 (January 2002)
• Learning to Listen, Learning to See (December 2001)
• Springtime in (Nearly) August, Part 2 of trip to the southwest (November 2001)
• Looking for Lucifer, Part 1 of trip to the southwest (October 2001)
• Wake-up Calls (September 2001)
• Man of the Willows, Bird of the Dogwood (May 2001)
• New England Travelogue, Installment III (April 2001)
• New England Travelogue, Installment II (March 2001)
• New England Travelogue, Installment I (January 2001)
• On This, the Longest of Nights (December 2000)
• Galileo Hill Haiku (October 2000)
• Mexico Travelogue (October 2000)
• Saint Peter's New Arrival (September 2000)
• Lake Effects: Acknowledging the Patterns: Dot-by-Data Point (May 2000)
• Conversations (April 2000)
• A North Coast Natualist's Calendar (March 2000)
• Humboldt County Breeding Bird Atlas Project  (May 1999)
• True Confessions: Sleazy "Ticks" and Other Transgressions  (April 1999)
• Once in Several Lifetimes (March 1999)
• A Solstice Gift (December 1998)
• A Joy Shared ... [ A WFO Retrospective] (November 1998)
• Dream Birds (October 1998)
• On The Cusp (September 1998)
• A Tale of Two Trees (January 1998)
• Avian Pilgrimages: Past and Present (December 1997)
• The Unfocused Birder (October 1997)
• At the Point of Discovery (September 1997)
• Rites of Spring (March 1997)
• Merely Coincidence (January 1997)
• Frontiers (December 1996)
• Perceptions (November 1996)
• Creative Visualization (October 1996)
• The Strange Case of the White-winged Tern (September 1996)

Leskiw, Tom and Frank Anderson

• "Les-son's Almanac, Vol. 2" (March 2005)
• "Les-son's Almanac, vol. 1" (November 2004)

 

Children's Issue Writers

 

Simoni, Emily

• What Birds Mean to Me (May 2006)

Tompkins, Lauren

• A Peck of Sapsuckers (May 2006)

• My First Christmas Bird Counts (May 2005)

Yokoyam, Brianne

• Bird Watching: All in the Family (May 2004, Children's Issue)

Calla, Sue

• "Del Norte Students Make Things Ducky" (March 2005)

Colwell, Mark, and Steve Hackett

• Plovers and Economics

Fix, David

• Remembering David Anderson (January 2002)
• Of Thatch, Cows, and Honkers (November 2000)
• Where's the Atlas Project Right Now? (October 2000)
• 'Twist For It And 'Tween Agin It  (January 1999)
• October in the Bird World (October 1998)
• On the Touch of Dappled Light Nearest Home (February 1998)
• Western Field Ornithologist' Convention (October 1997)
• Alpenmuse (May 1997)
• Of Year-birds, Robins, and Attention to What Matters (April 1997)

Harris, Stan

• High-flying Antics at the Arcata Marsh  (October 2002)

Hewston, John

• Chapter Fund Raising  (April 2004)

• Thirty-five Years Ago (September 2003)

• Those Audubon Wildlife Films! (June 2003)
• Picnics and Meetings (May 2003)
• Thirty Years Ago (April 2003)
• Why a Banquet? (March 2003)
• Redwood Chapter 30 Years Old  (January 1999)

Karsteadt, Larry

• In Memory of Lewis Klein (September 1997)
• Wolf Gone Shadow (May 1997)

Leskiw, Sue

• Five Golden Rings, Fo(u)r Calling Birds…: 2003 (November 2003)

• Bonus Web Article: Christmas is Coming, the Birds are Getting Counted (November 2003)

• Five Golden Rings, Fo(u)r Calling Birds... (November 2002)

LeValley, Ron

Ogan, Chet

• Humboldt Bay Approved as WHSRN site (October 1998)

Power, Jude

• A Singular Woman (December 2001)

Rodstrom, Bill

• On the Pribilofs with Roger Tory Peterson (September 1996)

Schleyer, Michael

• Free Sound and Light Show at the Arcata Marsh (January 2004)

Wallace, Doug

• Southern Humboldt and Northern Mendocino Birders and Birding (October 2003)

Wood, Wendell

• Tolowa Dunes Stewards

National Audubon Society Staff

• Audubon Chief of Science Calls on States to Employ Integrated Pest Management (September 2002)
• Open Letter To Chapters: Important Bird Areas by Dan Cooper, Audubon-Califomia, Los Angeles (December 2000)

Anonymous

• Wildlife & Native Plant Garden Tour, July 26 (June 2003)

• Redwoods to the Sea Wildlife Corridor - A Work in Progress (May 1999)