Museum lectures cover trails, bears, furs and surveying

The Museum at Central School, in Kalispell, will present its 10th annual John White lecture series on alternate Sundays in January and February, all at 2:30 p.m.

• Jan. 15, Darris Flanagan, a local historian, will talk about trails and mountain passes used by the Kutenai Indians of Northwest Montana and Southeastern British Columbia.

• Jan. 29, Kate Kendall, a U.S. Geological Survey research ecologist who has studied grizzly and black bears in Northwest Montana since 1997, will talk about her innovative non-invasive bear rub techniques to develop DNA profiles.

• Feb. 12, anthropologist and Flathead Valley Community College professor E.B. Eiselein, a direct descendent of Sir Alexander MacKenzie, the North West Company fur trader who was the first European to cross North America, will talk about the history of the fur trade.

• Feb. 26, Bill Weikel, a professional engineer and surveyor, will talk about the equipment and methods used by Lewis and Clark, David Thompson, John Mullan and other early Kalispell surveyors.

Tickets for all four lectures are $20 or $6 for any single event for Northwest Montana Historical Society members or $30 and $9 for the general public, available at the museum, located at 124 Second Avenue East, in Kalispell. For more information, call 756-8381.