Save Our Community Pastures

Here is an excerpt from a recent article from the Star Phoenix: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/technology/Action+needed+order+save+legacy+pastures/6634991/story.html

This Land is Your Land  by Candace Savage

If you care about the special beauty of the prairie—if you want know that there will be wild, wide open spaces of natural grassland for your children’s children to  enjoy—there is something you can do. It will only take a few minutes, but it could affect the health of the prairie ecosystem for generations.

The big, bold prairie landscapes of the Community Pastures are perfectly  adapted for use as grazing lands. Whatever else happens, they must be protected from cultivation and carefully managed for livestock production. So please take a few minutes to write to your MLA http://www.legassembly.sk.ca/mlas/  and tell him or her that you care about the livestock producers and Community Pasture staff who rely on these lands for their livelihood. More than that, tell him or her that you care about the prairie’s wild inhabitants, which rely on the wide open spaces of cattle country for their very
existence.

2012 YFBTA Membership

A YFBTA MEMBERSHIP PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES:

• to show concern about protecting wildlife and habitat for wildlife

• to promote eco-tourism in your area

• to act as a mentor to youth

• for learning about wildlife and its environment

• to participate in wildlife conservation practices

• to participate in YFBTA programs

• enjoy and receive our YBTA newsletter   "What's flying around ....."

• contribute writing and / or digital photographs to our newsletter and/or our website

• meet like-minded individuals

• share interests, concerns, sightings and observations

• attend regular meetings of the board of directors who work on your behalf

• become a member of the board

• to promote awareness of the importance of wildlife and of suitable places to visit

• become actively involved with trail development, management and maintenance

• connect on a regular basis with fellow members

• to support our work even if you cannot be active

• to share your creative ideas

• to facilitate participation of youth groups in YFBTA programs

• to contribute to the growing influence of the YFBTA

Click here to register: http://yfbta.com/documents/YFBTA%20membership%20form.pdf

Send your registration to:

Martha Karau

Box 403

Churchbridge, SK

S0A 0M0

306-896-2660

marwal@sasktel.net

Tanner Garbutt: Summer Program Facilitator

On May 8th, 2012 Paula and Morley Maier hosted a  pot-luck barbecue at their farm near Yorkton.  All Yellow Head Flyway Birding Trail Association Members were invited to view spring-migration bird watching.  Also the evening allowed all members to become better acquainted with each other and to welcome YFBTA’s new employee. 

Tanner Garbutt of Bethune is the Summer Program Facilitator. He will be working in schools in our region during May and June. During July and August Tanner is charged with facilitating programs on behalf of YFBTA. Tanner has been asked to focus upon connecting youth with nature.

For more details view this article in the Yorkton This Week: http://www.yorktonthisweek.com/article/20120516/YORKTON0101/120519871/-1/yorkton/birding-association-hold-pot-luck-supper

Great Video of Osprey

I recommend you watch this video of a an osprey hunting fish: http://www.arkive.org/osprey/pandion-haliaetus/video-00.html