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Wildcat Audubon Society Serving the Nebraska Panhandle
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WAS Board Officers 2006 Co-Presidents Dr. Don Gentry Meredyth Gentry 308-436-2495 email Co-Vice Presidents & Program Committee Connie McKinney 308-632-5153 email Donna Davey 308-632-5767 Secretary Alice Kenitz 308-436-2959 email Treasurer/Editor Kathy De Lara 308-632-3047 email Board of Directors Ray Boice (representative) 308-436-4872 Dean Drawbaugh Phyllis Drawbaugh 308-632-4869 Ann Duey 308-632-3544 email Helen Hughson 308-632-4765 email Brad McKinney 308-632-5153 email Ruben Siegfried 308-436-7859 email Rod Smith 308-632-1973 *Historian* Julie Edwards *Background Pictures by Allison Johnson*		About WAS
		Wildcat Audubon's Mission “To promote conservation and education about birds and other wildlife, particularly in Western Nebraska." Wildcat Audubon's Accomplishments Fifty years of providing conservation & educational wildlife programs in the area Provides a field check off list of birds for area Schedules wildlife and conservation field trips in the area Leads local nature hikes of special interests Provides a voice to Audubon Nebraska, the regional branch of the National Audubon Society Helps maintain houses for a bluebird trail at the Wildcat Hills used by mountain and eastern bluebirds Has provided funds for SOAR (Save Our American Resources) for BSA Provides social activities at our nature presentations Sponsors an interpretive panel on eastern and mountain bluebirds with Bluebirds Across Nebraska at Wildcats Provides a newsletter three times a year Promotes National Audubon’s first Nature Center at Rowe Sanctuary near Kearney Nebraska Promotes Nebraska Ornithological Union Has provided specimen trees for the Northfield Arboretum in Gering Helps to promote the nature programs at the Wildcat Hills Nature Center Have donated nature books at several local libraries and the Wildcat Hills Nature Center Sponsors Audubon Adventure Series to several schools in the area Sponsor a bird seed sale each fall Participate in Audubon Adopt a Wildlife Refuge Program (North Platte Wildlife Refuge) Worked effectively with Nebraska Games & Parks, Audubon Nebraska and the community to help establish the Wildcat Hills Nature Center and to have a resident naturalist at the Center Teach Beginner Birding Classes open to the public
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