Date: 4/2/25 1:30 pm From: John Turner <redknot948...> Subject: Fwd: [nysbirds-l] Tomorrow: Join Four Harbors Audubon Spring Lecture - Paved Paradise: The Ecological Impacts of America's Road System
A most interesting lecture tomorrow night! Hope you join us!
John T.
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From: Patrice Domeischel <fourharborsheron...>
Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Tomorrow: Join Four Harbors Audubon Spring Lecture -
Paved Paradise: The Ecological Impacts of America's Road System
To: NYS Birds List Serv <NYSbirds-L...>
Join Four Harbors Audubon Society for our Spring Lecture - Paved Paradise:
The Ecological Impacts of America’s Road System.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 7 p.m. - Zoom presentation
Guest Speaker: Ben Goldfarb
Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard
them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so
ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience
them as alien forces of death and disruption. More than a million animals
are killed by cars each day in the U.S. alone; creatures from antelope to
salmon are losing their ability to migrate in search of food and mates; and
the very noise of traffic chases songbirds from habitat. Today road
ecologists are seeking to blunt that destruction through innovative
solutions. Conservationists are building bridges for mountain lions and
tunnels for toads; engineers are deconstructing the labyrinth of logging
roads that web national forests; and community organizers are working to
undo the havoc highways have wreaked upon American cities. In his talk, Ben
Goldfarb will discuss the ecological harms wrought by transportation and
the movement to redress them — and how we can create a better, safer world
for all living beings.
Ben Goldfarb is an environmental journalist whose work has appeared in
National Geographic, the Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, and many other
publications, and has twice been anthologized in the *Best American Science
& Nature Writing*. His most recent book, *Crossings: How Road Ecology Is
Shaping the Future of Our Planet*, was named one of the best books of 2023
by the New York Times and the New Yorker, and received the Rachel Carson
Award for Excellence in Environmental Writing and the Banff Book
Competition’s Grand Prize. His previous book, *Eager: The Surprising,
Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter*, won the PEN/E.O. Wilson
Literary Science Writing Award. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Elise,
and his dog, Kit — which is, of course, what you call a baby beaver.
*After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the lecture.*
Patrice Domeischel
Four Harbors Audubon Society
Lecture Committee
