by Bob Lee The 30th annual Family Forestry Expo will take place at Stoltze Lumber’s Ron Buntemeyer Educational Forest located north of Kalispell along Trumbull Creek on Saturday, May 11, from 9 AM-3 PM. This is a free family event that offers hands-on understanding of the role that local forests play in our everyday lives….
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Highlights from the March 4, 2019 Board meeting President Kay Mitchell informed us that, unfortunately, we were not able to qualify for the Great Fish Community Challenge. The committee had invested over 100 hours completing the application, so it was quite a disappointment. Bob Lee is seeking nomination for FAS Board members. We made good…
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Monday, May 13, 2019 Whitefish Community Center,121 Second Street, Whitefish Program: To be announced Doors Open 5:00 PM, Potluck Dinner 6:00 PM, Meeting Begins 7:00 PM. Be sure to arrive early enough to look over and bid on silent auction items! Officers and Board Members will be elected. NOMINATIONS FOR UPCOMING FAS ELECTIONS At the…
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By Linda Winnie, Photos by Devvi Morgan. 10 volunteer workers gathered at 9 am on the cold Saturday morning of March 9 in the Montessori Elementary School parking lot to prepare for a morning of weed work at the Owen Sowerwine Natural Area. After Denny Olson, FAS Conservation Educator gave them a quick lesson…
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The Dynamic Relationship of Native Plants, Insects, and Birds presented byKathy Ross Kathy Ross will be the guest speaker at the Flathead Audubon meeting on Monday, April 8 from 7-9 PM at the Gateway West Community Room in Kalispell. Did you know that over 90% of all terrestrial birds need insects, not seeds, to raise…
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Big Possibilities for Local Bird Education by Denny Olson Partly because our local schools are cash-strapped for bus money, opportunities for public school outdoor education seem to be shrinking. With our local economy increasingly tied to outdoor experiences – and with what we know about how important natural outdoor experiences are in the intellectual and…
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by Gail Shay Linne, Education Chair Denny Olson, Conservation Educator, presented an ambassador training on January 7, 2019 at the Lone Pine State Park Visitors Center. Shannon Donaldson and her son Bridger Donaldson, Jennifer Dodan, Pat Jaquith and Pam Willison attended the three-hour workshop. FAS Education Committee members Amy Jacobs, Rod Wallette and Gail Linne…
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by Laura Katzman We are grateful that the Grosswiler family placed almost 400 acres of their land in the West Valley in conservation easements with Flathead Land Trust in 2017 and 2018. The conserved land has amazing conservation values with its rich farm soils and unique 45-acre pothole wetland that is critical for tens of…
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2019 OSNA Volunteer Monitoring begins this month! from Linda Winnie, Co-Chair, Owen Sowerwine Committee Reports from Volunteer Monitors underpin Flathead Audubon’s management of OSNA. The reports give our OSNA On-the-Ground Manager up-to-date information on maintenance needs at Owen Sowerwine. They provide observational data that feeds into our records of what birds and wildlife and native vegetation…
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