Now that it's getting into the quieter summer birding season, I am hoping some of you Shaker Lakes birders and area residents could support conservation in a unique way. 2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Nature Center of Shaker Lakes (NCSL), an Audubon-designated Important Birding Area. Celebrating 50 years of conservation in the Heights involves archiving and digitizing NCSL history. The Nature Center came to be out of the grassroots anti-freeway movement of the 1960s. Without active area citizens, the site of the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, one of the last area green spaces, would have been the Interchange of two unbuilt freeways: I-290 and the Lee Freeway. If you would like to be part of the exciting preservation and perpetuation of the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes story, please volunteer to help archive and digitize our records. No prior archiving or related experience is required. Please contact Jessica Brand, NCSL volunteer coordinator, at 216.321.5935 x 237, or at [log in to unmask] An application and background check are required. Please reply to me at this email address, or contact Jessica if you have any questions. --Laura Peskin ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]