Secrets Under the Snow by Denny Olson It happens with regularity every year. In the early winter, before the winter rains can crust that early puffy snow, I stop to listen to the incredible silence, and then spot something that makes me remember. The snow under my snowshoes is alive. This year it was an…
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Familiar Songbird May Be At Least Three Species
One of North America’s most beloved and familiar birds, the Yellow-rumped Warbler, may be at least three separate species, If the species were to be split, it would upend a status quo that has lasted for almost five decades and would restore two cherished common names that many bird watchers still fondly use. For most of…
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Conservation Education Corner – January 2017
by Denny Olson One of the unfortunate curiosities of Western Neo-European culture is that pesky illusion we have of disconnection from nature (when we are in reality totally comprised of nature, and nature is partially comprised of us). The natural outgrowth of that illusion is two-fold: (1) we assume that we can stand apart from…
Read MoreConservation Education Corner – December 2016
by Denny Olson FAS Conservation Educator Other than the Teacher’s Trunk Workshop, which happened on October 20, this last month continues to be a writing and gathering creative time. The next “events” will be the Christmas Bird Counts – Bigfork on December 17 and Kalispell bringing in the New Year right on January 1. The…
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by Denny Olson FAS Conservation Educator Things are calming down a bit since Birds of Prey Festival and our Mentoring and Monitoring Day, doing science and “woods-detective” training in the Owen Sowerwine Natural Area with 28 high-schoolers mentoring 28 elementary kids. So far, in my brief tenure, we have served 616 people in our programs…
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Conservation Educator’s Summer Blitz by Denny Olson FAS Conservation Educator An interesting start to my tenure as FAS Conservation Educator! June is always a busy month for our Audubon Crew. It started with a number of us attending the Montana Bird Festival in Missoula, camping at Tally Lake for the Warbler Weekend, and then Birdathon….
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Changes by Denny Olson FAS Conservation Educator I spent four years as a member of Flathead Audubon’s Board of Directors and Chair of the Education Committee. It has been a wonderful time – not just because this is by far the most committed, hard-working board I have ever experienced, or because together we generated two…
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By Lisa B. Flowers, FAS Conservation Educator Adult education class – Beauty of Birds ran at Flathead High School on Wednesday evenings from 6 – 8 PM in April. The 4-week class got off to an exceptional beginning with wildlife biologist Steve Gniadek presenting his photos of birds in Glacier National Park. One of the…
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