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Membership Renewal

ASK has its yearly membership renewal drive in August, just before our new season of activities starts in September. Since one bulk mailing is so much cheaper than mailing individual first class notices each month, all members except those who…

By Sharon Fedesna | October 23, 2017 | Uncategorized |
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Why Buy a Duck Stamp?

Why Buy a Duck Stamp?

Since 1934, sales of Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps have contributed over $800 million and protected over 6 million acres of habitat in our national refuge system. (Long-tailed Duck photograph by Jack Wyatt)

By Sharon Fedesna | May 12, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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Participate in Project FeederWatch

Participate in Project FeederWatch

Project FeederWatch is a winter-long survey of birds that visit feeders at backyards, nature centers, community areas, and other locales in North America. (Photo by Mary Wyatt)

By Sharon Fedesna | May 11, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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ASK on Facebook

ASK on Facebook

ASK is jumping into the 21st century and exploring social networking to find new ways to reach out to our members, supporters, and the general public. We now have a Facebook page… (Photo by Larry Wolf)

By Sharon Fedesna | May 10, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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ASK and the Internet

ASK has been slowly but surely moving into the electronic communications world. But don’t worry, we won’t do away with the hard copy of the newsletter. So where have we been and where are we going? Our first attempt at…

By Sharon Fedesna | May 9, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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Everyday Products Carry a Hidden Global Cost

A water footprint is the total volume of fresh water used to produce a certain good. Many people live in dry regions that cannot support the production of goods requiring a lot of water, so they effectively consume water in…

By Sharon Fedesna | April 12, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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Did Your Shopping List Kill a Songbird?

By Bridget Stutchbury Though a consumer may not be able to tell the difference, a tomato from Florida is often not the same as one grown in Mexico. The imported fruits and vegetables found in our shopping carts in winter…

By Sharon Fedesna | April 12, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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Shop Smart, Save Birds

Natural Resources Defense Council: A Shopper’s Guide to Home Tissue Products Canada’s boreal forest is one of the largest unspoiled forests left on earth. It provides breeding grounds for up to three billion birds each spring, and nearly half of…

By Sharon Fedesna | April 12, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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Bird Friendly Coffee

By Russ Schipper As far as coffee refreshments go at ASK meetings, an apt description could be wrapped in a single word, “decaf,” and our wise and responsible Hospitality Committee reliably has good decaf coffee available. Now that coffee has…

By Sharon Fedesna | April 11, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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Coffee Buying Guide

By Russ Schipper This information is from Tom Dietsch. Tom was one of the graduate students whose research in Central American coffee plantations was supported by ASK several years ago. He is still very much involved in the shade coffee…

By Sharon Fedesna | April 11, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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Please note: For our January members’ meeting, we are combining forces with Kalamazoo Area Wild Ones (KAWO) since the topic holds appeal for both ASK and KAWO. This requires a change from our usual fourth Monday of the month at…
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Many who travel to the Antarctic Continent go by ship leaving from Ushuaia, Argentina, at the very southern tip of South America. The next 48 hours are spent in the roughest seas in the world – the Drake Passage in…
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