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‘‘The Sagebrush Initiative hasbeen going now for coming oneight years, and we’ve had tremendousimpacts. We’ve already protected15 million acres, and it looks like wemay get as high as 40 million overallin 11 states, so that’s a pretty big deal.Because of this and other projects, we’veformed a great partnership with the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service, one that couldresult in landscape-scale conservation.The Central Flyway makes up more thanhalf of the landmass of the Lower 48. I feelmy mission is to try to make a differencefor the wild things and wild places of thisworld. Protecting those things created hereis the moral thing. I wake up every morningand listen to the birds and take their songto heart and go back and sing for them.‚‚I’ve done this for over 40 years and workedall over the planet, and I think some of thebest work I’ve ever done is what we’re doingright here in the intermountain West.Brian Rutledge,Vice President, Audubon Rockies7Clapper railThis secretive bird, an audubonpriority species, suffers fromhabitat loss and fragmentation.Texas's coastal marshes,where this rail can be found,are increasingly threatenedby rising sea levels.A U d UBon 2012 AnnUAL ReP o RT 29