Great Salt Lake Audubon

“San blas trip office 102 travel 28,440 basin and range office 763 expenses supplies 457 insurance 3,290 bank fees 709 jordan river restoration 32,515 jrmbr expenses 67,924 meeting 502 miscellaneous expenses 678 office supplies and equip 102 promotional costs 561 website costs 120 non-investment depreciation 302 total 136,465”

“Unrealized gain on investments 621”

“1,512 1,512 less accumulated depreciation 349 651 total 1,163 861”

“Accounts payable and accrued expenses 0 4,507”

“Great salt lake audubon, a chapter of the national audubon society, was founded in 1912 and is the oldest conservation organization in utah. This volunteer organization strives to meet its mission through volunteer opportunities, seminars, educational field trips, urban riparian restoration and informative general meetings with guest presenters. We also support state and local conservation efforts. Great salt lake audubon is dedicated to protecting and enhancing habitat for wild birds, animals and plants, and to maintaining healthy and diverse environments for wildlife and people throughout the state.”

“-education programs including monthly general meetings for members and the public, some specifically designed for children and families -special presentations hosted by salt lake city public library and westminster college -bi-monthly distribution of the gsla newsletter the pelican highlighting conservation issues, field trip offerings, recent accomplishments of gsla, and notices of general interest -sponsored approximately 70 birding field trips open to the audubon members and the general public -sponsored the annual "basin and range" weekend educational seminar for audubon members and the general public -conducted local participation in the annual christmas bird count (national activity), the jordan river bird count (local activity) and the brighton bird count (local activity) -management of the bluebird box trail at strawberry reservoir -ongoing development of a website (www.greatsaltlakeaudubon.org) and email alert system to keep members apprised of current events and action alerts -ongoing efforts to restore habitat for migrating birds at the jordan river migratory bird reserve -partnering with other local environmental and community organizations such as tracy aviary, utah audubon council, friends of the great salt lake, the coalition to keep the lake great and the shared solution coalition which offers an alternative to freeway expansion in a locally important bird area -maintained the presence of a legislative advocate to lobby the utah legislature on issues regarding conservation -submission of comments and position statements to decision-making agencies regarding local environmental issues that impact birds, wildlife and habitat -collaborative development of the "birding utah" application for iphones”