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EVENTS
Please join us at Willow Bend Environmental Education Center (703 E Sawmill Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86001) on Sunday, October 6 to help build kestrel nesting boxes! Bring a power drill and a hammer if you have one. We’ll be building from about 11a.m. - 2p.m.
This will be FKP’s 3rd nest box building event! Come help us finish building the last nest boxes, that we will then install later in October and November.
Check this page for dates and information about nest box installation (...)

DONATE
We’re working on getting online donations up and ready. In the meantime, if you would like to donate, please do so by sending a check to:
Sustainable Communities Foundation
NAU Foundation
P.O. Box 4094
Flagstaff 86011
Please specify on the check: SUS Innovation Fund #4815 for FKP
Or you can send Maya funds directly, which will be deposited into the Foundation account: paypal.me/mayarappaport
Thank you so much for supporting FKP! GET INVOLVED
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ABOUT THE COORDINATOR
Maya Rappaport is a graduate student in Sustainable Communities and Science Communication at NAU. She has worked as a field ornithologist in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Utah, Colorado, and Montana, and her undergraduate education is in wildlife biology, ecology, and conservation. In addition to her professional life as an ecologist, she is a classical musician, visual artist, and environmental (...)

CONTACT
To get in touch, please contact Maya, FKP coordinator, at:
[email protected]

COMMUNITY CONSERVES If we look to historical movements that have been successful in making change, a common element of each movement is a broad base of community support. Grassroots support is what makes positive change possible. Community Conserves is a new initiative that seeks to learn about this concept - and it’s doing so with the Flagstaff Kestrel Project.
Check this page for research findings on this important topic.
BUILDING COMMUNITY To harness community power, we must help build (...)

Flagstaff Kestrel Project - Integrating Community into Conservation
The Flagstaff Kestrel Project (FKP) is integrating community into conservation. Driven by scientific inquiry, FKP seeks to understand the best practices for engaging laypeople into conservation work while concurrently creating a long-term monitoring program for American kestrels in Northern Arizona. This research will have wide ranging implications for other communities that wish to become involved in conservation efforts. (...)

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