Date: 3/11/23 6:55 am From: <tgmiko...> <tgmiko...> Subject: Re: [LACoBirds] Long-term (future) Lancaster sewage ponds access, and a field trip
Ron Cyger and others have done a lot of good work, also. Thanks, Paul! Tom
Thomas Geza Miko Claremont, LA County 909.241.3300
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 1:06 PM Paul Fox <foxzpuffin1...> wrote:
> We all owe a hearty Thank You and Well Done to Thomas. Not just for this > either! > > Paul > > On Mar 10, 2023, at 12:57 PM, <tgmiko...> wrote: > > Hi, > 1. There will be a combined field trip to both the Lancaster Water > Treatment Plant (referred to by birders as the Lancaster Sewage Ponds) and > the Piute Ponds inside of Edwards Air Force Base (restricted access) *next* > weekend. They are using buses to take tour participants from one location > to the other. As soon as I receive the link for signing up, I will email it > out. [I think the tour that was supposed to happen tomorrow was at the > Palmdale facility not the Lancaster facility] > > 2. I have been working with a County employee who is not stationed in > Lancaster on the possibility of restoring access to the Lancaster sewage > ponds to occasional visits by birders (after the Bean Goose flies home to > Siberia, and we want to get Sabine's Gull or Baird's Sandpiper on our LA > County year list). He will need to discuss this with his higher ups. This > negotiation may take a while, so even if it does happen, there maybe a time > gap between the goose leaving and when a limited number of us are able to > resume access to occasional visits. > > Thomas Geza Miko > Claremont, LA County > 909.241.3300 > "With a sufficiently large sample size a correlation can at once be both > very significant and too small worth discussing."--Daniel Kahneman > > > >
