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UPDATE: This program had to be rescheduled.
On Thursday, October 13th the Willapa Hills Audubon Society will be welcoming noted outdoor photographer and author Alan Bauer to Longview to discuss "Exploring the South Cascades and Mount Rainier."
The presentation will be at the Longview Library, 1600 Louisiana Street, at 6:30 pm. Alan will talk about his adventures exploring the mountains of our area, including the flora, fauna, geology and other natural history and show his fabulous photography.
The talk is free, all are welcome, and refreshments will be served.
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The Willapa Hills Audubon Society's final program of the spring will be an Audubon Kids Day! It'll be on Saturday June 11 at the Cowlitz PUD Auditorium from 1 to 3 pm. Lots of fun, bird-related activities for kids of all ages will be on the schedule. Snacks will be served.
Location: Cowlitz PUD Auditorium
Contact: Bob Arnsdorf
This free program is sponsored by the Willapa Hills Audubon Society. Everyone is welcome.
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Bob Stone, retired taxidermist, has graciously offered to lead a taxidermy workshop. Participants will learn how to prepare study skins and parts of birds and mammals. Bob will share the finer points of taxidermy as it applies to more technical mounts.
The May 14 workshop will last two hours (1-3 pm) and consist of Bob discussing the meaty details of the taxidermy process. The following Saturday will be a hands-on workshop lasting 4+ hours (10-2) where participants will have the opportunity to prepare a specimen.
Requirement for the second workshop is attending the first. Both events will take place at LCC. Send an
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Join WHAS and the LCC Biological Society for noted outdoor author Craig Romano, who will be discussing his new book and the observations he’s made while hiking extensively throughout the Gorge.
The program is free and all are welcome.
The talk will be held on Tuesday May 10th at 7pm in the Wollenberg Auditorium, in Lower Columbia College’s Rose Center, Longview.
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Willapa Hills Audubon Society invites you to learn about "Landscaping for Wildlife: Amphibians and Reptiles" presented by Ann Kastberg. The program will be on Saturday, March 19th at 7:30 pm. Find out what you can do in your own backyard to create healthy habitats for frogs, toads, newts, lizards, and snakes.
Location: St. Stephens Episcopal Church Parrish Hall, 1428 22nd Ave., Longview, WA, (parking in alley)
This free event is sponsored by the Willapa Hills Audubon Society and open to the public.
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Please join Willapa Hills Audubon Society in welcoming visiting Russian biologist Vasily Baranyuk, an expert on snow geese. He'll be talking about Wrangel Island, Russia, 2900 square miles of the remotest Arctic wilderness on the planet and its unique wildlife including snow geese, polar bears, Arctic fox and wolves, lemmings, walruses and snowy owls.
The talk will be Tuesday March 8th at 7:00 pm in the Wollenberg Auditorium at the Rose Center at Lower Columbia College in Longview.
This free event is sponsored by the Willapa Hills Audubon Society and open to the public.
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Update: Date changed to Thursday, Feb 10th
WHAS will have the pleasure of welcoming Longview's own Dr. Jim Hulbert on Thursday February 10 at 7:00 pm at the Cowlitz PUD Auditorium.
Dr. Hulbert has been a 35 year volunteer working with Ducks Unlimited to preserve habitat throughout North America, serving recently as the national President of DU. He'll be talking on "Wetland Conservation" from his unique perspective.
This free event is sponsored by the Willapa Hills Audubon Society and open to the public.
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Kit McGurn from Conservation Northwest will be doing a presentation entitled "Columbia Highlands: Washington's Last Wilderness Frontier" on Wednesday, January 26th at 7:00 pm at the Cowlitz PUD Auditorium Longview.
The Northeastern Washington area serves as a habitat bridge between the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains. It contains a healthy population of wildlife and pristine forests. Grizzly and black bears, wolves, caribou, lynx, moose, deer and elk still thrive here. Kit will be talking about this unique area and efforts to preserve it as a wilderness.
This free event is sponsored by the Willapa Hills Audubon Society and open to the public.
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On Friday night, November 19 Sharnelle Fee, Executive Director of the Wildlife Center of the North Coast, a bird and animal rehabilitation center in Astoria, will be joining us at 7:00 pm at Lower Columbia College in the Student Center cafeteria. She'll be discussing her efforts at wildlife rehabilitation and will be bringing several live birds including a brown pelican, spotted owl and some sea birds depending on availability.
This event is a free Willapa Hills Audubon program.
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On Saturday November 6 at 2:00 pm at the Longview Library we will show the first movie in our Birds of Hollywood series, Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", in the Halloween spirit. And we will have popcorn and drinks.
This free event is sponsored by Willapa Hills Audubon Society.
On Saturday November 6 at 2:00 pm at the Longview Library we will show our first movie in our Birds of Hollywood series, Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", in the Halloween spirit. And we will have popcorn and drinks.
On Saturday November 6 at 2:00 pm at the Longview Library we will show our first movie in our Birds of Hollywood series, Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", in the Halloween spirit. And we will have popcorn and drinks.
- WHAS Annual Picnic
- Follow Arctic Scientist, George Divoky This Summer
- May Program - Falling Off the Edge: Four Decades of Environmental Change at the Top of the World
- Location update for the January 16 Amphibian Surveying Training
- Learn about local frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders
- Body snatchers and body invaders: Diversity and behavior of predatory and parasitic wasps
- Nina Baker, author of "The Body Toxic" comes in October
- Wild Utah: America’s Redrock Wilderness
- "Twilight" Time in the Willapa Hills