About South Sound Bird Alliance

South Sound Bird Alliance is a chapter of the National Audubon Society and represents Lewis, Mason, and Thurston counties in the state of Washington. It is an all-volunteer-based, non-profit organization whose 1,400+ members share interests in birds and other wildlife, their habitats, and natural history. Our goals are to promote environmental education and recreation and to maintain and protect our ecosystems for future generations.

We work with the state Audubon office and National Audubon.

BOARD MEMBERS

OFFICERS:

	President: Kathleen Snyder pres@southsoundbirds.org “The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.” ~ Lady Bird Johnson.
	Vice-president: Kim Adelson vpres@southsoundbirds.org “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.“ ~Gary Snyder
	Bruce Jacobs treasurer@southsoundbirds.org “For the sake of the land we love, we need to train the children to love the tree and the bird.” ~A.H.S. Lucas
	Secretary: Janet DeLapp secretary@southsoundbirds.org “When we align ourselves with the Golden Ratio we tap into the inherent beauty and balance of the universe.“ ~Mario Livio

MEMBERS AT LARGE:

	Allan Holland “Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?” ~ Sir David Attenborough
	Rachel Holland “…we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.“ ~Hayao Miyazaki
	*Nancy Hubly* “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.“ ~Albert Einstein
	Sam Merrill “We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.“ ~Aldo Leopold
	Charlotte Persons “From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
	Sheila Rodriguez “The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.“ ~Nancy Newhall
	Kathleen Snyder “The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.” ~ Lady Bird Johnson.
	Melinda Wood “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ~ Jane Goodall.