The Wilderness Speaker Series series brings timely and interesting wilderness topics to the public to raise awareness and inspire community discussion. Free and open to all.

On April 16th, our featured speaker will be Lisa Bate, Supervisory Wildlife Biologist at Glacier National Park, with a presentation titled, “Taking Flight: Golden Eagles in Glacier National Park”.

Glacier National Park’s Mount Brown Hawk Watch program is part of an international effort to track long-term raptor population trends that aims to better understand these avian predators. Golden Eagles and many other raptors migrate seasonally between northern breeding grounds and warmer climates. Mount Brown provides an ideal location to observe the raptors’ passage through one of the most important North American Golden Eagle migration routes. Learn about the integral role of raptors in our ecosystems and the risks they face. Lisa will also share the other half of the story of Golden Eagles in the park – nest monitoring, including the role that volunteers and lookouts play in aiding park staff in observations and searching for nests.

Lisa Bate is a Supervisory Wildlife Biologist at Glacier National Park. She specializes in birds and bats, overseeing multiple research, inventory, and monitoring programs including harlequin ducks, songbirds, raptor nesting and migration, black swifts, Clark’s nutcrackers, and bats. Lisa Bate also oversees wildlife and compliance monitoring for projects like the reconstruction of the Going-to-the-Sun and Many Glacier Roads, focused on preventing detrimental effects to grizzly bears. Prior to her employment at GNP, Lisa worked as a private research wildlife biologist focusing mainly on birds, cavity-nesting species, and their habitat.

The Wilderness Speaker Series is presented by: Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation, Wild Montana Flathead-Kootenai Chapter, Northwest Montana Lookout Association, and the Natural Resources Conservation Management Program at Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC).

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