Cushion plant community in Missoula
Native plant walk for Wild Montana
Short-tailed weasel (Mustela erminea) found at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge
Birding with Montana Master Naturalist students at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge, Stevensville
White-tailed deer fawn born in May
Skiing the Packer Meadow Loop at Lolo Pass on the Montana/Idaho border
Elena teaching Montana Master Naturalist students how to identify native shrubs
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Arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagitatta) covers the Missoula hillsides from May to July
Albino few-flowered shooting stars (Dodecatheon puchellum) found on Mount Jumbo, Missoula
Great gray owl found in Missoula
Striped coralroot (Corallorhiza striata), a mycoheterotrophic plant
Teaching Montana Master Naturalist students about plant identification in Glacier National Park, 2023
Fresh cross-country ski tracks at Lolo Pass on the Montana/Idaho border
Looking at stonefly larvae collected at Lolo Creek
Yellow pine chipmunk
Fairy slipper orchid (Calypso bulbosa)
Great blue heron, one of my favorite birds
Winter birding in Missoula
Blue Mountain National Recreation Area, Missoula
Blackfoot River, Missoula
Birding the Bitterroot River in February. We typically see 15-20 species of birds on a winter Bird tour in Missoula
Woodland skipper (Ochlodes sylvanoides) feeding on my catmint (Nepeta spp.) flowers
Wilson's snipe
Lolo Pass
Praying mantis, an introduced species from Asia used a biocontrol but getting a little too populous in Missoula
Dissecting a short-eared owl pellet that I found in the Mission Valley while doing owl surveys
Water strider
Winter birding at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge in the Bitterroot
Mountain chickadee
Snowshoe hare tracks
Bitterroot, our Montana state flower
Xanthomendoza lichen
Beartooth mushroom
Looking for aquatic invertebrates on Lolo Creek
Red-naped sapsucker, a migratory woodpecker whose drumming sounds like maracas
Mayfly larvae found in Rattlesnake Creek
Osprey breed in western MT from May to October
Slime mold (Trichea varia) sporidium
Pig's ear mushroom (Gyromitra ancillis)
Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) blooms in May
Cauliflower slime mold (Enteridium lycoperdon)
Western terrestrial garter snake (Thamnophis elegans) found swimming in a pond
Using eBird to record bird species that we saw/heard at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge in Stevensville
Wolf lichen on ponderosa pine
Birding in Missoula
Sharp-shinned hawk
Usnea lichen
Missoula fog
Hiking above the blanket of fog on Mt. Sentinel, Missoula
Hoar frost in January created by freezing fog
Teaching a corporate group how to watercolor paint wildflowers for a Watercolor Paint Wildflowers En Plein Air tour