Talk:Audubon/Archive 1

Archive 1

Numbers...

How many people are members of this society today? Many thanks.--81.65.198.179 (talk) 14:35, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of political copy and paste rant

It was off topic and unconnected to the Audobon Society. Don't revert it until you edit it down and make it relevant to the article. This is not a soapbox Kevin Purcell (talk) 20:06, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Removal of Pop Culture section

Rationale: (1) Not relevant to development of article (2) Only two examples (3) See the controversy at Talk:Wood regarding "In Pop Culture" and "XKCD".

Also, to the poster who claims that there is controversy, it's not "Clover"; it's "Plover". Clovers are trefoil plants; plovers are wading birds. Murphy2010 (talk) 00:02, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

POV/ Copyvio?

It seems that some of the wording in this article has an unencyclopedic tone, and seems to come from NAS/ AOU literature or from some other environmentalist organization. Additionally, there are only two references in the entire article. I'll be back eventually to highlight some of my concerns and recommendations. I support the NAS, but I'd like to see more neutral language in this article. Cheers, Murphy2010 (talk) 00:10, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

New President- 2010

Frank Gill became the new president of the National Audubon Society on January 20, 2010. This has been updated in the main text. Please see here for more information: http://www.audubon.org/news/pressroom/Leaders/Gill.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.193.198.18 (talk) 19:41, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

New home office

The Audubon Society moved its main offices to a new location in March 2008. Here is some information about it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/realestate/06sqft.html?_r=2&emc=eta1&oref=slogin

I modified the photo near the top to say 'former headquarters' because that's an exterior photo of the building where Audubon was previously located. I'll find a photo of the new office to include on the Wiki page soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jgrossnas (talk • contribs) 15:11, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

No controversy?

Why is there no controversy section in this article? Especially with their actions aimed at [1] destroying the economy of portions of the outer banks of North Carolina] to save Clovers, a species that is not endangered nor anywhere close to it.

It's unlikely that anyone at the Audobon Society has an aim of "destroying the economy of portions of the outer banks" or anywhere else. Sustainable economies lead to better wildlife preservation, as people who are able to feed, clothe, and house their families are more likely to give a @#$% about birds in their midsts. Still, if you want to provide a section on controversy surrounding the organization, written in a balanced format, with appropriate references provided, I'm sure it would be most welcome. —Gaff ^ταλκ 18:23, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

National and local Audubon societies

I found an interesting reference on the evolution of Audubon societies — Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) Much of that information seems to fit in this article, though there are loose ends. When did the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals become the National Audubon Society? How has the relationship between the local socities and the national society evolved? I also tried to make the boundary between history and current activities more distinct. Seems like there should be more said about education. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 21:00, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Prairie dogs

There is a section labeled “DDT, the prairie dog, and politics,” but the content on prairie dogs has disappeared and needs to be restored. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 22:16, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Audubon Medal award in 2002?

I was about to revert the edit by Brenda M Timm to show Edward H. Harte was awarded the Audubon Medal in 2002. I knew that was incorrect because the National Audubon Society website shows that Mike Dombeck was awarded the medal in 2002. Ms Timm had an excellent citation, the NY Times. I searched for a retraction or correction but found none. Continuing to search, I found another spot on the NAS website that confirms award of the Audubon Medal to Harte in 2002 here. I know there's someone from the NAS headquarters around somewhere. Could you have the NAS website corrected to show who was actually awarded the medal in 2002? Please? DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 23:31, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

cat controversy

Is it time to add a section about the Audubon Society and cat TNR (trap neuter return) Russ The Rail Guy 22:23, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

References

Italicized title?

Why is the title in italics? Organizations' titles should not be italicized. I don't know how to express this in a requested move though. Wikipedian77 (talk) 22:07, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Audubon Medal

Two things... first: the statement of "108 year history" is problematic in any way as it needs constantly to be updated... there should be a reference like "as of 2012" or similar. Second: If the medal was first awarded in 1947, what has got a 108 year history of the society doing the awarding to do with the low number of recipients? It's 52 awardees in 66 years of history of the MEDAL that is important, the other 42 years never will be counting towards the award, will they? --178.200.3.229 (talk) 15:45, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Proposal to use lower case for common names

FYI, For 10+ years, wikipedia has usually capitalized common bird names in article titles. There is now a proposal to reverse that convention. Read more and if you like comment at Talk:Crowned CraneNewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:21, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

External links modified (February 2018)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on National Audubon Society. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.stlouisaudubon.org/who/WhoWeAre.php
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://marketplace.audubon.org/products/national-audubon-society-field-guides
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20091005033138/http://www.foe.org/letter-senator-boxer to http://www.foe.org/letter-senator-boxer

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 10:28, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Update Audubon logo

This article uses an old version of the National Audubon logo. The current one can be downloaded here- https://brand.audubon.org/d/OrmY5t0gQM6X/visual-identity#/logo/download-logos — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hootalex (talk • contribs) 02:41, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Audubon Society seemed to have been hit by complaints on diversity

Colman, Z. (November 12, 2020) https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/12/audubon-society-claims-intimidation-threats-436215. The organization has met multiple allegations about a culture of retaliation and antagonism toward women and people of color. One senior member, Devon Trotter, resigned from it due to hostility from the CEO David Yarnold, and did it for similar reasons his boss, Deeohn Ferris, resigned. Particularly, according to Trotter, Yarnold threatened Trotter's job if Trotter didn't reveal the dissatisfied respondents from a survey (and the respondents were promised confidentiality). Yarnold denied the allegations and said that he wanted to address workplace harassment and discrimination which is why he asked information about the respondents. There was also a presentation a while back that drew criticism for being racially insensitive. 47.148.108.245 (talk) 06:01, 13 November 2020 (UTC)