2023 ​Speaker Series

All speaker programs will be available to attend via ZOOM. 
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5948239658
Meeting ID: 594 823 9658
Check the events calendar for updates at: www.plumasaudubon.org/calendar
If you missed a speaker program, don't fret! You can watch our programs any time on our YouTube Channel!

February

Plumas County Big Year:
365 days of discovery, connection, contribution, and fowl obsession in the Lost Sierra
(Part Two)

Tuesday, February 21st, 7pm at the Quincy Library
Paul Hardy shares the rest of the story about the birds, the data, lessons learned, and personal reflections about his (successful) quest to break the Plumas County Big Year record in 2022.

Did you miss it? Watch the recording on YouTube!

January

Plumas County Big Year:
365 days of discovery, connection, contribution, and fowl obsession in the Lost Sierra
​(Part One)
Thursday, January 19th, 5pm at the Quincy Library
Paul Hardy shares the birds, the data, lessons learned, and personal reflections about his (successful) quest to break the Plumas County Big Year record in 2022.

Paul founded the Feather River Land Trust in 1999, where he served as Executive Director for 17 years. ​His 30+ years of conservation, land management, and non-profit experience includes working as an avian scientist for the University of Arizona for 3 years, a wildlife biologist on the Plumas National Forest for 5 years, ​co-creating the Sierra-Cascade Land Trust Council and Northern Sierra Partnership,​ and ​serving on the​ boards of the California Council of Land Trusts and Plumas Audubon Society.
​
Paul was born beside the Middle Fork Feather River at the Western Pacific Railroad Hospital in Portola, where he grew up, graduating from Portola High School in 1988. He and his brother, Mark, were lucky to have parents (Richard and Becky Hardy) who took them fishing, hunting, hiking, wildlife watching, and camping throughout the Feather River Watershed and western U.S. After obtaining degrees in wildlife biology from the Universities of California and Arizona, Paul moved back to the Feather River region in 1998 to help start FRLT. Paul recently launched Hardy Conservation and the Center for Conservation Renewal; however, his primary job and joy is supporting his teenage kids, Emmalyn and Andrew, in Quincy, California with lots of help from friends and family.
​
Did you miss it? Watch the recording on YouTube!