WHAT DOES THE AUDUBON SOCIETY EXPECT OBAMA TO DO?
by Whit Gibbons December 7, 2008 The National Audubon Society (NAS) has its plan for what the new president of the United States should do for conservation during the upcoming administration. As they put it, the election of President-elect Obama and the new Congress has brought a “conservation opportunity and [a] need for action.” The NAS president and CEO is John Flicker. Fittingly enough he has the name of a bird. The flicker, a type of woodpecker also known as the yellowhammer, is the state bird of Alabama. I still call them yellowhammers, but the NAS, which gets pretty bossy about what a particular bird should be called, has decreed that it shall be the “yellow-shafted flicker” rather than the “yellowhammer.” In any case, the president’s name is Flicker and that’s what we should call him. So, what did John Flicker have to say? One thing he said was, “Voters in this historic election cast their ballots not only for change, but for a new era of hope for our environment, and the peopl
