September, 2018 - Florence Baily - Bramble Variation

Florence Augusta Merriam Baily (1863 – 1948)
Born in Locust Grove, NY, grew to became not only an ornithologist, and one of America’s first activists for the protection of birds, but also published the first bird field guide, Birds Through an Opera-Glass, published in 1890.  When she first started her study, the standards were based on collections of skins; but she wanted to study the living birds in the field. After college, she moved to Washington and helped organize the Audobon Society of D.C. in 1897, and began to teach classes on birds the following year.  Because of her activist work, she was also instrumental in the passing of the Lacey Act of 1900 that banned illegally traded wildlife to be sold across state lines. After marrying she would do extensive field work with her husband in the American West, and documented her studies in several books, including The Handbook of Birds of the Western United States and The Birds of New Mexico. In 1908, a subspecies of mountain chickadee was named in her honor; and in 1992, a mountain the southern Oregon Cascade Range was named in honor of both her and her husband by the Oregon Geographic Names Board.

The Drink

Bramble Variation
3 blackberries
1 oz gin
1 oz berry mead
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz honey syrup

Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 1
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5

  Comments: "AZ, you'd better find more raspberry mead, because we're going to need more of this for the Christmas party." 

From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and BoilerMaker