Who We Are: Saw Mill River Audubon

Saw Mill River Audubon is a local organization with 800 members from twenty communities in Westchester County, New York.

Members of Saw Mill River Audubon are part of a dynamic, involved community of people who love the outdoors and desire to learn more about and protect the natural world.

We have worked for fifty years to protect natural ecosystems through education, advocacy, and habitat conservation.

We were chartered as a chapter of National Audubon Society in 1953. [More about Audubon]

Saw Mill River Audubon is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization and is led by a volunteer board of directors. [More about Board & Committees]

Great egret

Why is this bird here?
Protection of egrets and other birds from market hunting for their feathers
was the beginning issue for Audubon in 1896.
[History of Audubon]
On National Audubon's web site

Through the work of dedicated members, board, staff, and visionary donors, Saw Mill River Audubon is recognized as a leader in environmental education and conservation in the region.

Saw Mill River Audubon owns eight separate sanctuaries protecting over 300 acres of critical wildlife habitat in Westchester County. People appreciate our sanctuaries for their natural beauty and places "to get away from it all" right in their own communities. [More about Habitats we protect]

Saw Mill River Audubon monitors local land use and wildlife issues and provides a reasoned view based on sound science. Through our collective voice with other local Audubon chapters, New York Audubon, and National Audubon, we reach decision makers to achieve effective action.[More about Advocacy]

From its inception, Saw Mill River Audubon has had a strong focus on environmental education. Each year, we bring our school-based education programs to thousands of local kindergarten through college students and offer free natural history programs and field trips to adults and families.
[More about Education]

You are invited to come to our free public programs and field trips, visit our sanctuaries and add your voice to ours to protect the natural world. Come, meet us and see, in person, who we are!

We also invite you to consider joining us as a member.

You can join Audubon online today
and be billed later for membership.

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