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January 2008 |  |
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Protecting Our Ocean Wilderness Through Public Stewardship www.farallones.org |  |
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IN THIS ISSUE Endangered Spotlight: Western Snowy Plover 
San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. Come see the inspiring films! Ocean Film Festival needs volunteers! Join the volunteer crew for the festival taking tickets, handing out programs, helping with the opening event, student programs and more! Volunteers get to view the fantastic line up of films. Contact Joanne at jmohr@farallones.org or 415.561.6625
January 23 FMSA Lecture: Non-native house mice on the Farallon Islands: Impacts and solutions, 7pm, Sanctuary Offices, 3rd Floor, at Crissy Field. Presented by Jacob Sheppard. RSVP to Joanne at jmohr@farallones.org or call (415) 561-6625 x307.
February 9 Bioforum: Global Climate Change and its Influence on Evolution. 8:30am-4:00pm, California Academy of Sciences.
February 11-17 Visit the Aquarium of the Bay! It is Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association week. Mention that you are a FMSA supporter and receive a $3 discount on adult admission and a $2 discount on child admission. The Aquarium will donate a portion of each FMSA admission back to us!
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Winter in the Sanctuary
And while we hunker down indoors with a hot cup of tea, local birds embrace the intense storms, the wild gusts of the downpours. Outside the FMSA office, gulls dance in the dark sky and sanderlings scurry across wind-swept beaches. Twenty-seven miles west on the barren rocks of the Farallon Islands, murres are busy scaling cliffs, prospecting for nests.
Ocean Film Festival 2008
Our Executive Director, Linda Hunter, sat down recently with Ocean Film Festival contributor, Jordan Plotsky, to talk about his film, Titans of the Coral Sea. Exquisitely filmed, this film chronicles the Papua New Guinean Titan people, an ancient society of subsistence fishermen who have fished their reef for 40,000 years. Now they face a dilemma: join the global economy or preserve their fishery and their way of life.
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As winter storms surge in from the Pacific, bringing massive waves and powerful ocean currents, and rivers flood with mountain sediment and urban debris, the coast of our Sanctuary is alive, shifting and eroding in the fierce rain and surf, redefining itself to the new ocean-land environment. 
Please join us at the 
Mavericks Arrives! 
As you take your next stroll down the shoreline, be sure to keep an eye out for the cleverly camouflaged western snowy plover. Arguably the cutest bird in the Sanctuary, the snowy plover is one of the many endangered species that live and travel through the Bay Area.