Audubon Alaska partners with UAA
Posted On Monday, September 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ALASKA Tags: Boreal birds, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Olive-sided Flycatchers, Rusty Blackbirds, Solitary Sandpipers, Tess Forstner, Xtratufs
Tess Forstner, a junior at UAA, spent her Alaska summer dressed in Xtratufs, wading through wetlands on a quest for chicks. Boreal birds, actually. She also wrangled a couple dozen volunteers who were willing to tromp through their backyard wetlands in Anchorage and the Matanuska Valley to monitor target species—Lesser ...