| Date | Destination/Description | Difficulty | Trip Leader/Contact |
| April 21 | Cowiche Canyon. A joint Cowiche Canyon Conservancy/ Washington Butterfly Association Earth Day Hike . | 2 | David James |
| May 12 | Glacial Heritage Preserve, Thurston County. Annual Prairie Appreciation Day (Center for Natural Lands Management). An opportunity to see early spring butterflies on the prairie. | 1-2 | prairieapprecia- tionday.org |
| May 12 | North Fork Cowiche: Continuing butterfly inventory of newly acquired Cowiche Canyon Conservancy/WDFW lands with grazing rights. | 2 | David James |
| May 19 | Yakima Training Center: Beginning a butterfly inventory on this military training land. No examination of the butterfly fau- na of this vast shrub-steppe landscape has been conducted. | 3 | David James |
| May 26-27 | Trinity National Forest, Northern California: Weekend trip to Eagle Creek to tag northward-migrating Monarchs. Also a rich area for butterflies (30-40 species) . | 2 | David James |
| June 2 | Rocky Ford, Lincoln County: WBA/WDFW Species of concern: Silver-bordered Fritillary, recently discovered by John Baumann to be present on this shrub-steppe site. | 3 | David James |
| June 9 | Big Meadow, Bonner County, Idaho, a lesser fritillary and spring butterfly extravaganza. | 1-2 | John Baumann |
| June 23 | Big Springs, Umatilla National Forest, Blue Mountains: WBA/ WDFW Species of concern: Meadow Fritillary. | 3 | David James |
| June 30 | Red Top Lookout, Teanaway area. | 2-3 | Melanie Weiss and Dan Dunphy |
| June 30 | 4th of July Butterfly Count, Little Pend Oreille NWR. | Mike Munts | |
| July 13-15 | Annual Conference, White Salmon. | ||
| August 11/18 | Monarch Tagging Day at Lower Crab Creek. Date to be deter- mined by late July and will depend on Monarch abundance. | 2 | David James |
| August 25 | Toppenish, Yakama Nation: Search for Silver-bordered Fritil- lary (SBF) and violets as part of our Moxee Bog SBF project. | 3 | David James |
Non-consumptive appreciation of butterflies is central to our purpose, basic to our approach, and the guiding principal behind general membership field trips. Collecting of adult butterflies is not allowed on these trips. Collecting of eggs and larvae for rearing is accepted on condition that individuals raised to adult stage are released at their original location.
2-Day Field Trip Added – 7/28-29 – Slate Peak with David James
6/23 – Field Trip – Searching for Bellona in the Blue Mountains with David James
WBA members are invited to join us on a field trip to the Umatilla National Forest on Saturday June 23 to try and find a butterfly that was last seen there 48 years ago on June 21 1970! Boloria Bellona, the Meadow Fritillary was seen on that date by Edward Pfeiler, but has not been reported in the Blue Mountains since that time. Not many lepidopterists visit the Blue Mountains and it is entirely possible that a small colony still exists there. Mr Pfeiler was good enough to publish his observations from June 21 1970, so we know exactly where he saw Bellona and that is where we will start our search.
The Blue Mountains are home to many other cool butterflies including Ediths Copper, the Great Basin Fritillary, Mountain Parnassians and many others so even if we don’t find Bellona there’ll be plenty to see. The wildflowers and views are gorgeous too!