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Dr. Jeff Wells is the Senior Scientist for the Boreal Songbird Initiative. During his time at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and as the Audubon Society's National Conservation Director, Dr. Wells earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading bird experts and conservation biologists. He is now dedicated to understanding and protecting the land where North America's birds are born and raised, the Boreal Forest of Canada and Alaska. Check back regularly to read Dr. Wells' perspectives on the conservation, migration and interesting habits of Boreal birds.

Archive for November, 2008

Toronto was great!

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

We ended our trip in Toronto with another full day of meeting with reporters. Terry Root had made it up from a meeting in Mexico and Pascal Badeau came south from Winnipeg to join us. We were hosted for the day by the wonderful folks in the Wildlands League office who introduced us to some [...]

The Ceiling Falls While Boreal Protection Rises

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

So here’s one of the back stories of the first three days of our International Boreal Conservation Science Panel media tour. The renowned Stuart Pimm came up from Duke University on Monday to Washington DC while Jeremy Kerr came down from the University of Ottawa. It was pretty amazing that either of them came because [...]

Science Panel Sets Out New Conservation Vision

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Yesterday and today (Tuesday, Nov. 18) I have had the pleasure of being in Washington DC with several members of our newly formed International Boreal Conservation Science Panel.  The 14-member panel includes scientists from wide-ranging disciplines including conservation biology, ethnobotany, aquatic ecology, climate science, caribou biology, geology, ornithology, and others. The all-volunteer group which includes [...]


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