Keith Bensen Presents:

“25 Years of Conservation and Research on the Marbled Murrelets of Redwood National and State Parks”

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Redwood National and State Parks is home to one of the largest breeding populations of federally threatened, and extremely secretive, marbled murrelets. These unique seabirds do something that no other temperate seabird does, they nest in the tops of old-growth trees along the coast of the Pacific Northwest. The giant redwoods of the parks provide a perfect home for murrelets, but nesting hundreds of feet in the air also makes them extremely difficult to study and conserve.

Keith Bensen will take you through the last quarter century (and more) of chasing these elusive animals and trying everything imaginable to ensure their survival into the future. Keith has been a fish and wildlife biologist at Redwood National Park for the past 25 years. His duties include getting to know where all the rare animals of the park are, what they need, how they are doing, and in what ways park operations might cause them harm. He’s also constantly trying to keep all the large critters with pointy parts from doing bad things to park visitors and vice versa.