By Denny Olson
A very fond farewell to my Flathead Audubon “Homies” – the Board of Directors and all of you who I see at meetings and on the trails. Thirteen years ago, I was on that Board, and then after five years, offered to smooth the transition when we lost another Conservation Educator. Eight years later, the transition seems smoothed enough! I’ll be retiring soon after you read this, to a life with more travel and time with Mary Jo and my blood family in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Utah. I recently finalized a 501-page book suggesting a rationale and blueprint for substantially changing American public education, and I’m contemplating another on all the important personal lessons I have learned from nature in 52 years of teaching about our glorious natural world. I’ll be teaching at FVCC, and Glacier Institute, and still leading hikes in Glacier National Park for Road Scholar.
You all are truly my family, so I’m not disappearing. You’ll find me causing buckthorn and other invasive plant mayhem in Owen Sowerwine, leading a field trip here and there, doing bird surveys and Jewel Basin Hawkwatch, and helping our new Operations Education Coordinator, Jess Garby, get off to a good start on her own FAS adventure. Jess, and everyone, you know where to find me …
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