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Last Updated: February 15, 2014

Please join Lower Columbia College Professors Kyle Hammon and Louis LaPierre and the Willapa Hills Audubon Society on Wednesday, March 27 from 6-9 pm in LCC room SCI 107 to learn the basics of cultivating delicious oyster and shiitake mushrooms.

Participants will make and take home their own personal fungus farms.  Cost is $10 to cover materials.

Space is limited and a reservation is necessary.  Call Bob at 360-414-2728 to reserve your spot.

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Come celebrate with us. The annual WHAS member dinner and meeting will be held on Saturday, March 30th at 6PM at the Longview Woman's Club. The address is 835 21st Ave in Longview, on the Kessler side of the lake. This year will be a potluck. WHAS will supply meat and vegetarian pizza, coffee, tea and water. Members can bring something they might like to share: salad, dessert, casserole, bread, appetizer, or something else. We will need to know how many are coming, and your choice of pizza.

Please call either Gloria at (360) 636-3793 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.her or call Carol at (360)849-4324 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.her. We need to have a head count by the 27th of March. If possible when you call, please let us know what you are planning on bringing.  Also PLEASE bring your own tableware for all in your party. Let's make this a festive event!

At 7:00 pm, key note speaker, Master Birder and outdoor photographer, Idie Ulsh will present "Feathered Architects - The Fascinating World of Bird Nests".

The program will explore how and where birds make nests and will examine interesting aspects of their construction.

Idie Ulsh, Master Birder and former president of Seattle Audubon, has been a birder for 40 years, with an expertise in birdsong. Her interest expanded from birds to other flying creatures, including butterflies and dragonflies, and she was co-editor of photographs for The Butterflies of Cascadia.

The program at 7pm is free and open to the public.

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The Great Backyard Bird Count on February 15—18 will be promoted by a WHAS program at the Longview Library.  At 12:00 on February 16 we will see a short Powerpoint presentation on the bird count and then expert birders will lead small groups on short birding tours.  Birds found on the tours will count in the bird count, and participants will get practice in identifying our common urban birds.

New birders and children especially are encouraged to come to the free program.

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Weyerhaeuser forester, Mark Sheldahl will discuss the impact of browsing animals on the health, diversity, and productivity of the forest ecosystems.

The program will be held at 6:30 PM in the lower floor auditorium of the Longview Public Library.

The program is free and everyone is welcome to attend.

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Please join the Willapa Hills Audubon Society in welcoming US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist William Ritchie on Tuesday, November 6 at 6:30 pm at the Longview Library as he discusses the unique ecology of the marbled murrelet, a small seabird that nests in old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, and what we can do to conserve this  threatened species.

All are welcome to attend and refreshments will be served at this free program.

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The WIllapa Hills Audubon Society and the Lower Columbia College Biology Society welcome back outdoors man, photographer and veteran guidebook author Craig Romano to Longview to discuss his adventures while researching his latest book, Backpacking Washington.

He'll be speaking at the Wollenberg Auditorium in the Rose Center for the Arts at Lower Columbia College in Longview on Wednesday, October 17th at 7:00 pm.

The presentation is free and everyone is invited to attend.

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Willapa Hills Audubon will have a table at Bob's Merchandise Kids' Day on Saturday June 2nd from 9 to 3 with bird related educational activities aimed at the many children attending the event. Stop by to join in the fun for the kids dissecting owl pellets, assembling pre-cut wood duck boxes and making feather bookmarks.

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"Please join the Willapa Hills Audobon Society and the Lower Columbia College Biological Society in viewing a free screening of the documentary movie "Bag It" on Friday, May 18 at 6:30 pm in the Wollenberg Auditorium at LCC.  This film explores our plastic world and the environmental implacations of the 12,000 plastic bags Americans throw away every minute.  Anyone interested in this important issue is welcome to attend."

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Please join Willapa Hills Audubon Society and the Lower Columbia College Biological Society at the live educational bird presentation by the Portland Audubon Society Tuesday, on April 3 at Lower Columbia College, Longview, Student Center, 6:30pm.. You'll have a chance to see an owl, falcons, a turkey vulture and a raven up close and personal and learn all about them, the important role of birds in our environment and how we can all help conserve them. This free event is sponsored by Portland and Willapa Hills Audubon Societies.

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Our March Program will be featuring our special guest speaker Dr. Robert Michael Pyle, a renowned naturalist and conservation biologist (and WHAS member). He will be talking with us about his experiences searching for Big Foot in the Washington Cascades in his presentation “Still Walking: Bigfoot in the Dark Divide and Beyond.” Dr. Pyle will reveal some exciting new developments in his research. Refreshments will be served.

We hope you plan to join us on Saturday March 10th, at 7:00pm for this free stellar event at the Cowlitz PUD Auditorium at 961 12th Avenue in Longview WA.