🐦 Speaker Fees for Monthly virtual and in-person free public presentations on wide ranging topics (View our Webinars Page for examples.)

🐦 Improving Accessibility at DOAS Sanctuary 

🐦 Maintenance of trails and other facilities at DOAS Sanctuary 

🐦 Support for Special Presentations at Annual Fall DOAS Open House at the Sanctuary 

🐦 Education on timing of field mowing to best protect nesting birds and hemispheric conservation projects

🐦 Education about and assistance with making Bird Window Collision deterrent devices to prevent and reduce bird deaths from these collisions

🐦 Programs teaching how to use landscaping techniques to reduce pollution, and increase native plants and healthy ecosystems.

🐦 Summer Camp for Youth (when available)

DOAS’ Franklin Mountain Hawk Watch contributes significantly to national data collection showing fall raptor  migration trends.  

Since 1989, volunteers have maintained daily counting of migrants from August through December.  Because it has become difficult to continue this project with volunteers, this fund will be paying a hired counter starting in 2027.  Counters also provide education to visitors about the variety of raptors passing through our Franklin Mountain Hawk Watch. 

This fund would also support minor structural and site improvements.

Long-term funding is needed to assure the effective operation of the hawk watch well into the future. The fund will also support major structural and site improvements. Current structures are aging and will likely need replacement in the next few years.