Cushion plant community in Missoula Native plant walk for Wild Montana Short-tailed weasel (Mustela erminea) found at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge Birding 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 Do you have a small corporate group and want to do some team building? Try the Watercolor Paint Wildflowers En Plein Air tour! 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 Bitterroot River in February, Missoula Woodland skipper (Ochlodes sylvanoides) Wilson's snipe Lolo Pass Praying mantis Dissecting a short-eared owl pellet that I found in the Mission Valley while doing owl surveys Water strider Mountain chickadee Snowshoe hare tracks Bitterroot flowers 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