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A NEW HEADQUARTERS  

Until recently, BSC rented office facilities from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources at the St. Williams Provincial Forest Station, about 20 miles from Long Point. In 1998, the province privatized the forest station and sold BSC's current office facility. BSC holds a non-renewable lease on this facility with the new owners until March 2000.

In 1994, when the issue of privatization became known, the Board investigated various potential headquarters sites in the Long Point area. Long Point was chosen as the future permanent home of BSC, because it is where our other facilities exist, it is our historical home, and because great economies can be achieved in keeping administrative and program staff in one location. The new headquarters site is well situated for the purposes of BSC; it is located on a main road with town services, it overlooks the Inner Bay and Long Point, it provides opportunities for the restoration of key wildlife habitats, and it will attract the general public to learn more about BSC and our programs. BSC will incorporate the existing farmhouse and barn into the new Headquarters and National Research Centre and we have obtained zoning approval for the construction of the new facility.

The new Headquarters and National Research Centre will blend into the surrounding rural and natural landscape and include important new facilities:

		a reception area to orient and provide guidance to all visitors to the site, to offer a place where volunteers and supporters can meet and assemble, and to provide space for displays about programs and accomplishments of Bird Studies Canada;
		meeting space for lecture series, slide presentations, educational programs, and special events;
		a national data centre, with state-of-the-art web-based computer services, for the storage and analysis of bird population and productivity information;
		office space to accommodate our current (17) and projected (25) staff and a library and conference room for research and meetings;
		a large porch-like element, framing the view over the restored wetlands to the west;
		outdoor storage for boats and vehicles in the renovated barn; and
		limited overnight accommodation and a site custodian's apartment in the renovated farmhouse.

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