Western Wisconsin will soon be home to the Gaylord Nelson Audubon Chapter. The new organization came to be by the combining of two groups. Host Rich Kremer welcomed Steve Betchkal, author of All of This and Robins Too: A Guide to the 50 or So Best Places to Find Bird in Wisconsin and member of the National Audubon Society, and Bill Hogseth, conservation biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to talk about the merger and what it means for bird conservation in western Wisconsin.
The guests explained how the merger happened between a newly forming local chapter of the Audubon Society, which was in the initial phase of application to the society, and the already established Gaylord Nelson Audubon Society. When the ink dries on the paperwork, the Gaylord Nelson Audubon Chapter will be the largest in the state. Hogseth also talked about the DNR’s role in bird conservation and how it will collaborate with GNAC.