Flora and Fauna of the Canadian Arctic Presented by Cyndi Smith and Peter Achuff

Join retired Parks Canada biologists, Cyndi Smith and Peter Achuff, for a tour of five of the remotest national parks in Canada: Aulavik, Auyuittuq, Ivvavik, Quttinirpaaq, and Tuktut Nogait. Riotous growth and activity, from arctic fox pups playing to muskox grazing amidst colorful flowers, is crammed into the few short weeks of summer while the sun never sets.

Peter retired in 2007 as the national botanist for Parks Canada, specializing in rare plants and ecological land classification. Cyndi retired in 2012, after a long national park career including jobs from park interpretation to law enforcement to vegetation restoration. Both finished their careers in the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. This will take place on Wednesday, January 18, 7:00 pm in the North Valley Community Hall located at 235 Nucleus Ave, in Columbia Falls. The program is free and open to the public and hosted by the Flathead Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society.

For more information, contact Rachel Potter at 406-892-2446,or email mnps.flathead@gmail.com or view the Montana Native Plant Society website at www.mtnativeplants.org.
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Jen Hintz and Terry Divoky, Publicity Co-Chair for the Montana Native Plant Society, Flathead Chapter.