Outdoor news

by Hungry Horse News
| January 11, 2012 6:46 AM

Trout talk

Flathead Valley Trout Unlimited will present a free program by long-time chapter member Tim Joern, "Bones, Teeth and Gold," at the Fish Wildlife and Parks building, 490 North Meridian Road, in Kalispell, on Tuesday, Jan. 17. The talk will highlight Joern's recent trips that targeted big bonefish in Venezuela, the toothy tigerfish of Tanzania, and gorgeous golden dorado of Argentina. Coffee will be served and the public is welcome. For more information, contact Chris Schustrom at 260-1198.

Birds of prey

The Glacier Institute will offer an all-day wildlife course titled "Winter Birds of Prey" on Saturday, Jan. 28, led by Denny Olson, aka Critterman. Beginning with a short session at Flathead Valley Community College, the class will travel the Flathead's back roads searching for raptors, including bald and golden eagles, red-tailed and rough-legged hawks, and snowy, great-horned, long-eared, short-eared and pygmy owls. The course fee is $65. For more information, call 755-1211.

Park birding

Flathead Audubon and wildlife biologist Steve Gniadek will lead a 2-3 hour birding trip around the Apgar area of Glacier National Park on cross-country skis or snowshoes on Saturday, Jan. 14. Weather permitting, participants may see American dippers, bald eagles, wintering waterfowl and a rare northern hawk owl, along with tracks of woodpeckers, mountain chickadees, nuthatches and other forest birds. Meet at the Apgar Visitor Center at 9 a.m. For more information, call Gniadek at 892-7406.

Museum talk

Darris Flanagan, a local historian, will talk about trails and mountain passes used by the Kutenai Indians of Northwest Montana and Southeastern British Columbia at The Museum at Central School, in Kalispell, on Sunday, Jan. 15, at 2:30 p.m. Tickets for all four lectures in the John White lecture series are $20 or $6 for any single event for Northwest Montana Historical Society members or $30 and $9 for general public, available at the museum, located at 124 Second Avenue East, in Kalispell. For more information, call 756-8381.