By Jess Garby
The annual Flathead County Science Fair was held on Thursday, March 6. Per tradition, Flathead Audubon Society not only helped judge, but also sponsored the Wildlife Conservation Award. This special award is open to students whose projects focus on some aspect of wildlife conservation.
It wasn’t easy for me to decide who was most deserving, so I decided to present two awards! The first award went to high school students Gigi Gubits and Riley Pris for their project, titled “A Bug’s Life.” They examined how dissolved oxygen impacts biodiversity and abundance of macroinvertebrates in the Swan River. Gubits and Pris learned that macroinvertebrates thrive in areas with higher dissolved oxygen.
The second award was granted to high school student Colin Lincoln. Lincoln researched how deer are impacted by humans in his project, “Cervidae Activity Related to Human Activity.” He set up game cameras in low, medium, and high human traffic areas. Based on his game camera data analysis, Lincoln concluded that deer exhibited more guarded behavior in areas with higher human activity.
Congratulations to our three Wildlife Conservation Award winners!
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