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Wildlife biologist Bill Vetter and Western Rivers Regional Program Manager with AudubonRockies Abby Burk look and listen for birds in the early morning hours in an irrigated pasture in Grand County. They are heading up a bird monitoring program that aims to learn how birds use irrigated agriculture.
Photo by Heather Sackett / Aspen Journalism
KREMMLING In the gray light of dawn, hundreds of swallows darted over a pool of standing water in an irrigated field along the Colorado River. The birds were attracted to the early-morning mosquitoes swarming the saturated landscape. Bill Vetter, a wildlife biologist with Wyoming-based Precision Wildlife Resources, methodically counted the birds. For six minutes, he marked down every bird he saw or heard at eight locations across the ranch, 250 meters apart.
Aspen Journalism
Wildlife biologist Bill Vetter and Western Rivers Regional Program Manager with Audubon Rockies Abby Burk look and listen for birds in the early morning hours in an irrigated pasture in Grand County. They are heading up a bird monitoring program that aims to learn how birds use irrigated agriculture.
Heather Sackett/Aspen Journalism
KREMMLING In the gray light of dawn, hundreds of swallows darted over a pool of standing water in an irrigated field along the Colorado River. The birds were attracted to the early-morning mosquitoes swarming the saturated landscape.
Bill Vetter, a wildlife biologist with Wyoming-based Precision Wildlife Resources, methodically counted the birds. For six minutes, he marked down every bird he saw or heard at eight locations across the ranch, 250 meters apart.
Aspen Journalism
Wildlife biologist Bill Vetter and Western Rivers Regional Program Manager with AudubonRockies Abby Burk look and listen for birds in the early morning hours in an irrigated pasture in Grand County. They are heading up a bird monitoring program that aims to learn how birds use irrigated agriculture. (Heather Sackett/Aspen Journalism)
KREMMLING In the gray light of dawn, hundreds of swallows darted over a pool of standing water in an irrigated field along the Colorado River. The birds were attracted to the early-morning mosquitos swarming the saturated landscape. Bill Vetter, a wildlife biologist with Wyoming-based Precision Wildlife Resources, methodically counted the birds. For six minutes, he marked down every bird he saw or heard at eight locations across the ranch, 250 meters apart.
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Submitted by Doug Richardson, Pierce County Council Chair, District 6.
I hope you will join me for my annual in-district Pierce County Council meeting, which will be held Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 at 5 p.m.
At the meeting we will hear updates from:
Town of Steilacoom Mayor Ron Lucas
City of Lakewood Mayor Don Anderson
City of DuPont Mayor Ron Frederick
Anderson Island Citizens Advisory Board Chairman Dave Albertson
There will also be an update from the Performance Audit Committee with a report on the county’s interpreter services study, facilitated by Bill Vetter, senior legislative analyst.
Under the Pierce County Charter, the County Council holds at least one meeting per year in each of its seven council districts. This is done to make us more accessible to the residents we represent, and to identify topics of interest for our respective districts.