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2016 Winter Speaker Series: Footprints on the Landscape.
Please join us live or via video conference from Pincher Creek, Okotoks, Lethbridge, Canmore, Crowsnest Pass, Medicine Hat, Hanna, Magrath and Grande Prairie Libraries! Tuesday’s 7 – 8 pm, January 19 – March 22, 2016
Missed a talk? Catch up at: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChinookArchLibraries For more information call 403 627-‐1152 event may be cancelled due to inclement weather.
7 pm – Tuesday January 19 -‐ John and Kathleen Hancock from the Pincher Creek Library. Here be Dragons – Microscopic Monsters from the Crown of the Continent. Join John & Kathleen on a journey under water to meet and view aquatic creatures that share our local landscape.
7 pm – Tuesday January 26 -‐ Ryan Spencer from California State Parks. Blazing a Trail by Covering Our Tracks. The perception of parks as self-‐contained, pristine “worlds unto themselves” isn’t always true! Restoring healthy functioning ecosystems represents the newest frontier in park protection. Join Ryan Spencer, PORTS Interpreter, as he shares highlights from the efforts of Del Norte Coast and Prairie Creek Redwood State Park, to restore salmon, shorebird, and mammal habitat. 7 pm – Tuesday February 2: -‐ Anna Garleff and Doug Kaupp from Lethbridge Regional Library. We are all Downstream. In the development of the film "We Are All Downstream", Oldman Watershed Council’s Anna Garleff had many guides on her tour of the watershed. One was City of Lethbridge Water & Waste Water Manager Doug Kaupp. Together they share the story of bringing safe drinking water to communities.
7 pm – Tuesday February 9 -‐ Kelly Cooley from the Pincher Creek Library. Stop Invasive Species in Your Tracks. Invasive species are plants, animals, and microorganisms that are not native to a particular area. They are also species that are capable of causing severe damage in areas outside their normal range, harming the economy, the environment, or human health once they become established.
7 pm – Tuesday February 16 -‐ John Campbell from Okotoks Public Library. Do You Like to Dance? Discovering The Secrets of Sharp-‐tailed Grouse. Few people have observed Sharp-‐tailed Grouse in the wild displaying their complex mating dances on traditional lek dancing grounds; fewer people know it happens right here! Join John, as he reveals video of Sharp-‐tailed Grouse in southern Alberta leks, featuring photos from National Geographic awarding winning photographer Ken Crebbin. Photo: Ken Crebbin
Photo: Jayme Cabrera Lopez
2016 Winter Speaker Series: Footprints on the Landscape.
Please join us live or via video conference from Pincher Creek, Okotoks, Lethbridge, Canmore, Crowsnest Pass, Medicine Hat, Hanna, Magrath and Grande Prairie Libraries! Tuesday’s 7 – 8 pm, January 19 – March 22, 2016
Missed a talk? Catch up at: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChinookArchLibraries For more information call 403 627-‐1152 event may be cancelled due to inclement weather.
7 pm – Tuesday February 23 -‐ Nora Manners, Jeff Bectell, Jennifer Jenkins & the Blackfoot Challenge from the Pincher Creek Library. Sharing the Range – The Waterton Biosphere Association and the Blackfoot Challenge. Large Carnivores roam along the front range of the Rocky Mountains, crossing the border between Montana and Alberta. Ranchers from both sides share their perspective and methods they have used to meet the challenge of sharing the range.
7 pm – Tuesday March 1 -‐ Andrea Morehouse from the Pincher Creek Library. The Southwest Alberta Grizzly Bear Monitoring Project. The Southwest Alberta Grizzly Bear Monitoring Project (GBMP) tracked Grizzly Bears from 2011-‐2014, by analyzing hair samples collected from bear rub objects, fence crossings, and other opportunistic sampling locations with the aim to provide updated information on grizzly bear density and abundance within southwestern Alberta. PhD candidate Andrea Morehouse presents the latest results and findings.
7 pm -‐Tuesday March 8 -‐ Dave Hockey from the Okotoks Library Straddling the Divide – The Great Divide Trail. The Great Divide Trail traverses the continental divide between Alberta and British Columbia, wandering through the Rocky Mountains for more than 1200 kilometers. It is not officially signed and not always even an actual trail, sometimes merely a wilderness route, inspiring modern-‐day adventures.
7 pm – Tuesday, March 15 -‐ Anna Garleff & Norine Ambrose from the Lethbridge Public Library. Engaging Recreationist; Dutch Creek Restoration Project. October 2015 OWC hosted a restoration for recreation event with the Crowsnest Pass Quad Squad, Trout Unlimited, Spray Lake Sawmills, and Cows & Fish. More than 50 dedicated volunteers built structural walls that encourage bridge use, and planted new willows and poplar trees. The restoration event brought people together to take action and strengthen their connection to the land and each other.
7 pm – Tuesday March 22 -‐ Scott Murphy, from the Pincher Creek Library. Fire Management in Waterton Lakes National Park; Recent Prescribed and Wildfire Experiences. Parks Canada’s prescribed fire program contributes to the environmental health of Waterton Lakes National Park by bringing fire to the landscape in planned circumstances -‐ And then there are the unplanned fires!
Photo: Angela Carter
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