This is a wonderful article about a really interesting lady. Rosalie Edge was a wealthy socialite and suffragette who stumbled upon bird conservation in her later years, purchasing an entire mountain and establishing the first bird sanctuary in the US.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-mrs-edge-saved-birds-180977167/
This would really cheer Chaz’s dad up! I will send it to him!
That’s great! You can tell him also that I am pretty sure where my dad lives now has so many hawks because of Rosalie’s hard work. They are everywhere!
This definitely has to be a field trip one day!
Thank you. I remember learning about of Hawk Mountain as a child at an Audubon Society Film Viewing in the 1970’s. But the memory has faded and it was nice to get a non Society history. This was a longer version that I found very interesting.
I was shocked that they used to go and shoot the hawks for sport!! Who would do that?! That is horrible. Thank goodness for feminists!
Seriously! I have a real problem with sport hunting. You are not going to even eat it, so it’s entirely a waste.