Travis Audubon Society
3710 Cedar St.
Box 5
Austin, Texas 78705
512.300.BIRD (2473)
info@travisaudubon.org
3710 Cedar St.
Box 5
Austin, Texas 78705
512.300.BIRD (2473)
info@travisaudubon.org
Four Travis Audubon Society Board of Director positions will be
filled during the annual business meeting and election on March
20, 2008. The following persons have been chosen by the
Nominating Committee as nominees for those positions.
Robin Doughty
Interest statement:
I am interested in joining the board of TAS for three reasons.
First, I have an abiding personal and professional interest in birds
and bird conservation.
Second, I have been associated with TAS for many years and hold
it in regard. In fact, it was Ed Kutac who first introduced me to
Hornsby Bend and the birds of Central Texas when I arrived at UT
in 1971.
Third: I believe I have something to offer to the group in terms of
ideas and long standing experience with birds as an Austin
resident for more than 35 years
Resume:
Robin Doughty was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. He
attended universities in Italy (Rome) and England (Reading
University and the University of Oxford) and received a doctorate
in Geography from the University of California at Berkeley. In his
research for the doctorate, Robin passed a year as an assistant
in ecology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and
completed a book about the commerce in bird feathers to which
the formation of the Audubon Society was a response. He then
was invited to join the faculty of the Geography Department at the
University of Texas at Austin, where he serves as a professor of
geography and environmental studies, specializing in the history
of landscape change and conservation, with personal and
professional interests in the protection of endangered birds.
Robin has published nine books and scores of articles on a range
of environmental topics, including the nineteenth century feather
trade; the recovery of the endangered whooping crane that nests
only in North America; the history of early Texas settlement and
physical landscape; the relationship between human beings and
wild animals; the mockingbird, and the armadillo. Robin has
written about man-induced changes in landscapes of the US and
Australia, and is currently completing a book on how a complex
global environmental regime has developed to save Southern
Ocean seabirds, notably albatrosses, whose existence is
threatened by nesting habitat loss and unregulated long-line
fishing.
Bill Edwards
Interest statement:
Ann Edwards and I moved to Austin 10 years ago. We returned
close to Cherry Springs Ranch, which has been in the family for
half a century. We feel it our responsibility to leave the ranch a
better place than we found it. This is not a cliché for us. TAS
comes for spring and fall field trips; the ranch is the release point
for rehabilitated birds; and we are actively enhancing the quality
of wildlife habitat, and plant restoration, through our Wildlife
Management Plan. And don’t get me started on the golden
cheeked warblers and the black capped vireos.
Resume:
Profession: Emergency Physician
Currently medical director for Superior
HealthPlan in Austin.
Education: MD: Northwestern University, Chicago IL
MBA: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA
AB: Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Avocation: Managing Partner, Cherry Springs Ranch,
Spicewood, Texas
Wildlife Management Plan
Supplemental feed and water;
Habitat restoration;
Breeding bird census;
Wildlife shelter
Marsha May
Interest statement:
Travis Audubon Society has been dear to my heart, since I came
to Austin in the early 80s. Through birding trips, Christmas counts,
and monthly meetings, I met wonderful people and developed an
ever growing love for the avian community, especially in Central
Texas. I see my work on the TAS board as a way to give back to
this wonderful community of people and birds. I would welcome
the chance to continue for another term. Thank you.
Resume:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Nature Tracker
Coordinator
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Nature Tracker
Biologist
Southwest Texas State University (TSU), Instructor’s Assistant
The Institute for Bird Populations, MAPS Field Biologist Intern
Southwest Texas State University, SWT Wetlands Project
EDUCATION:
Southwest Texas State University (TSU), Master of Science,
Department of Biology, Aquatic Biology
Texas A&M University, Bachelor of Science, Wildlife and Fisheries
Sciences – Science Option
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:
SELAH, Bamberger Ranch, Coordinate spring, fall and winter bird
counts
Shield Ranch, Participate in the Breeding Bird Survey annually
SELAH, Bamberger Ranch, Surveyed the ranch for Black-capped
Vireos
City of Austin, Parks and Recreation Department, Surveyed and
monitored two habitats for Black-capped Vireos in the Austin area
Claude Morris
Interest statement:
I cannot ever remember a time when nature did not play a part in
my life.
From my Dad teaching me about hunting and fishing to my Mom, a
swim instructor, spending summers in the local swimming holes.
In my teen years I was a Boy Scout learning about the nature
things that scouting teaches.
After high school I moved to the mountain west. There I learned
about ecosystems that are totally different from the ones I knew
in Southeast Texas. That learning earned me a BS degree from
the University of Wyoming in Natural Resource Sciences. I took
that degree and worked for several years in mine land
reclamation.
I moved to Austin in 2000 and became involved in the Texas
Master Naturalists. That involvement introduced me to all the
great environmental activities that are available in the Austin.
Resume:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TRAVIS COUNTY, County Clerk’s Office
Network Analyst
STATE OF TEXAS, Depts. of Health and Education
Network Specialist
STATE OF WYOMING, Dept of Corrections and University of
Wyoming Information Technologies
EDUCATION:
Laramie County Community College, Computer
Information Systems
University of Wyoming, BS Degree in Wildlife
Management
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS:
Canoeing / Kayaking
Hiking
Birding / Wildflowers / Butterflies
Photography
filled during the annual business meeting and election on March
20, 2008. The following persons have been chosen by the
Nominating Committee as nominees for those positions.
Robin Doughty
Interest statement:
I am interested in joining the board of TAS for three reasons.
First, I have an abiding personal and professional interest in birds
and bird conservation.
Second, I have been associated with TAS for many years and hold
it in regard. In fact, it was Ed Kutac who first introduced me to
Hornsby Bend and the birds of Central Texas when I arrived at UT
in 1971.
Third: I believe I have something to offer to the group in terms of
ideas and long standing experience with birds as an Austin
resident for more than 35 years
Resume:
Robin Doughty was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. He
attended universities in Italy (Rome) and England (Reading
University and the University of Oxford) and received a doctorate
in Geography from the University of California at Berkeley. In his
research for the doctorate, Robin passed a year as an assistant
in ecology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and
completed a book about the commerce in bird feathers to which
the formation of the Audubon Society was a response. He then
was invited to join the faculty of the Geography Department at the
University of Texas at Austin, where he serves as a professor of
geography and environmental studies, specializing in the history
of landscape change and conservation, with personal and
professional interests in the protection of endangered birds.
Robin has published nine books and scores of articles on a range
of environmental topics, including the nineteenth century feather
trade; the recovery of the endangered whooping crane that nests
only in North America; the history of early Texas settlement and
physical landscape; the relationship between human beings and
wild animals; the mockingbird, and the armadillo. Robin has
written about man-induced changes in landscapes of the US and
Australia, and is currently completing a book on how a complex
global environmental regime has developed to save Southern
Ocean seabirds, notably albatrosses, whose existence is
threatened by nesting habitat loss and unregulated long-line
fishing.
Bill Edwards
Interest statement:
Ann Edwards and I moved to Austin 10 years ago. We returned
close to Cherry Springs Ranch, which has been in the family for
half a century. We feel it our responsibility to leave the ranch a
better place than we found it. This is not a cliché for us. TAS
comes for spring and fall field trips; the ranch is the release point
for rehabilitated birds; and we are actively enhancing the quality
of wildlife habitat, and plant restoration, through our Wildlife
Management Plan. And don’t get me started on the golden
cheeked warblers and the black capped vireos.
Resume:
Profession: Emergency Physician
Currently medical director for Superior
HealthPlan in Austin.
Education: MD: Northwestern University, Chicago IL
MBA: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA
AB: Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Avocation: Managing Partner, Cherry Springs Ranch,
Spicewood, Texas
Wildlife Management Plan
Supplemental feed and water;
Habitat restoration;
Breeding bird census;
Wildlife shelter
Marsha May
Interest statement:
Travis Audubon Society has been dear to my heart, since I came
to Austin in the early 80s. Through birding trips, Christmas counts,
and monthly meetings, I met wonderful people and developed an
ever growing love for the avian community, especially in Central
Texas. I see my work on the TAS board as a way to give back to
this wonderful community of people and birds. I would welcome
the chance to continue for another term. Thank you.
Resume:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Nature Tracker
Coordinator
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Nature Tracker
Biologist
Southwest Texas State University (TSU), Instructor’s Assistant
The Institute for Bird Populations, MAPS Field Biologist Intern
Southwest Texas State University, SWT Wetlands Project
EDUCATION:
Southwest Texas State University (TSU), Master of Science,
Department of Biology, Aquatic Biology
Texas A&M University, Bachelor of Science, Wildlife and Fisheries
Sciences – Science Option
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:
SELAH, Bamberger Ranch, Coordinate spring, fall and winter bird
counts
Shield Ranch, Participate in the Breeding Bird Survey annually
SELAH, Bamberger Ranch, Surveyed the ranch for Black-capped
Vireos
City of Austin, Parks and Recreation Department, Surveyed and
monitored two habitats for Black-capped Vireos in the Austin area
Claude Morris
Interest statement:
I cannot ever remember a time when nature did not play a part in
my life.
From my Dad teaching me about hunting and fishing to my Mom, a
swim instructor, spending summers in the local swimming holes.
In my teen years I was a Boy Scout learning about the nature
things that scouting teaches.
After high school I moved to the mountain west. There I learned
about ecosystems that are totally different from the ones I knew
in Southeast Texas. That learning earned me a BS degree from
the University of Wyoming in Natural Resource Sciences. I took
that degree and worked for several years in mine land
reclamation.
I moved to Austin in 2000 and became involved in the Texas
Master Naturalists. That involvement introduced me to all the
great environmental activities that are available in the Austin.
Resume:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TRAVIS COUNTY, County Clerk’s Office
Network Analyst
STATE OF TEXAS, Depts. of Health and Education
Network Specialist
STATE OF WYOMING, Dept of Corrections and University of
Wyoming Information Technologies
EDUCATION:
Laramie County Community College, Computer
Information Systems
University of Wyoming, BS Degree in Wildlife
Management
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS:
Canoeing / Kayaking
Hiking
Birding / Wildflowers / Butterflies
Photography
TAS BOARD OF DIRECTOR NOMINEES FOR 2008 ELECTION
