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26
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26
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Education :: Lecture
Thursday Night Winter Lecture Series
6:00 PM
Conrad Mansion Museum
Description:
What:Glacier Institute Announces Thursday Night Winter Lecture Series at the Conrad Mansion Museum

Dates:January 22, 2015
February 26, 2015
March 19, 2015

Time:6:00 p.m. Mansion doors open; Lecture begins at 6:30 p.m.

The Conrad Mansion Museum, in partnership with Glacier Institute, will be hosting three lectures, one per month in January, February and March. Presentations titles include Glacier's Iconic Mountain Goats, Wildlife Encountered by Lewis and Clark and Stories From the Top - Glacier's Fire Lookouts.

Doors open at 6 p.m. for coffee, wine, and desserts. Presentations begin at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $10 per person and proceeds support the missions of both organizations. RSVPs are required. Please call the Conrad Mansion Museum at 406 755-2166.

Lecture Title: Wildlife Encountered by Lewis and Clark by Dave Shea
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015
This presentation by Dave Shea highlights the Lewis & Clark "Voyage of Discovery" from St. Louis to the Pacific and back, focusing on the birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish the explorers encountered and first described for science. These include everything from tiny hummingbirds to the immense California condor. Significant sites along the way of interest to historians will also be discussed.

Dave Sheaearned his M.S. in Resource Conservation and his B.S. in Wildlife Biology from University of Montana. He has explored Glacier National Park during his thirty-five years as a supervisory backcountry ranger and biologist. In addition to working for the Park Service, he worked for the U.S. Forest Service as a wildlife biologist and botanist. Dave has published several works includingBald Eagle Concentrations in Glacier National Park,Animal Tracks of Glacier, andGlacier's Bird and Mammal Checklists.


Lecture Title: Stories From the Top - Glacier's Fire Lookouts by Justin Barth
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015

Join Glacier Institute Director of Education Justin Barth for a journey though time chronicling the development and transformation of Glacier's extensive fire lookout system. Learn about the colorful cast of characters who have staffed Glacier's lookouts and listen to the stories that they have brought back down to the valley floor. This program follows in the footsteps of Barth's 2014 mission to run to four of Glacier's lookouts in one wonderfully exhausting day.

Justin Barth is the director of education for the Glacier Institute and oversees the Institute's Field Camp site in West Glacier. Barth is also an avid trail runner and enjoys running to Glacier's lookouts when the trails aren't congested with grizzlies during huckleberry season. Justin grew up in Kalispell and visited the Institute's Big Creek Outdoor Education Center in sixth grade. He will lead a four-part field hiking series of to the lookouts of Glacier National Park in the summer of 2015.
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Age Group: All Ages
Venue: Conrad Mansion Museum
Address: 330 Woodland Avenue Kalispell, MT 59901
Phone: 406-755-2166

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