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April 2024
04-16-2024
This spring, Susan Fox Rogers, visiting associate professor of writing, is leading Monday morning birding walks from 7 to 9 am down Cruger Island Road on Bard College’s campus. The walks, which will continue through May 27, draw an intergenerational audience and are part of a greater environmental education initiative at the Red Hook Public Library, where Rogers is the inaugural Ascienzo Naturalist in Residence. Typically, participants will spot at least four of the Hudson Valley’s most common birds: robins, chickadees, tufted titmouses, and white-breasted nuthatches. On occasion, birders will spy more unusual specimens. “On these morning walks, we have seen eagles and listened to winter wrens, spied a rare rusty blackbird with its blazing white eyes, and delighted in the wood ducks crying as they take flight,” Rogers says. Biology major William Mennerick ’25, who took up birding during the pandemic, enjoys the walks. “I love birds,” he said. “I savor the weekly evolution of the landscape over spring. It’s amazing when vegetation starts to come in and then we wait for the spring chorus of songbirds, all at once.”
Photo: Visiting Associate Professor of Writing Susan Fox Rogers (third from left) is leading Monday morning birding walks. Photo by Emily Sachar
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): American and Indigenous Studies Program,Division of Languages and Literature,Environmental and Urban Studies Program,Environmental/Sustainability,First-Year Seminar,Literature Program,Written Arts Program |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): American and Indigenous Studies Program,Division of Languages and Literature,Environmental and Urban Studies Program,Environmental/Sustainability,First-Year Seminar,Literature Program,Written Arts Program |
04-11-2024
Bard is pleased to be one of the first two US colleges certified as a Plastics Reduction Partner by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). The NWF awarded bronze-level certifications to Bard College and California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, for their efforts to reduce single-use plastics on campus. This certification acknowledges work by the Office of Sustainability, student advocates, and community partners to demonstrate significant action across four broad categories: education and awareness, behavior change, operational change, and institutional change. “Bard students are eager to defeat the monster that plastic has become,” said Laurie Husted, chief sustainability officer at Bard. “Next steps will be to fill some of the gaps we identified, including creating a Green Events Guide in collaboration with our new campus dining partner and continuing advocacy work.”
Photo: Student volunteers with the Bard College Office of Sustainability.
Meta: Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability |
Meta: Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability |
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