2019 WBA Field Trips

DateDestination/DescriptionDifficultyTrip Leader
April 6Schnebley Coulee, Vantage. The traditional season-opening hunt for Sheridan’s Hairstreaks and other early-season shrub-steppe butterflies.1John Baumann
April 13Hog Lake and Folsom Farm, Spokane3Sue Orlowski
April 26Yakima Training Center. We will return at an earlier date than last year to get more of the spring shrub-steppe species that might be there. This date will need to be confirmed with the YTC. And I have not yet heard as to whether our participants from last year need to be revetted. Stay tuned. Melanie Weiss
May 11Rutter Canyon, Little Spokane Natural Area2Sue Orlowski
May 17Reecer Canyon, Ellensburg. We will visit one of our classic Central WA canyons at an earlier time in the season. Habitats will be explored at several elevations. Probable sightings of early blues, elfins, checkerspots, swallowtails.2Melanie Weiss
May 23Spokane Falls Community College butterfly class2John Baumann
May 25Douglas Canyon, Douglas County1Sue Orlowski
July 13Salmon La Sac area1-2Al Wagar
July 23Stevens Creek and Stevens Lakes, Shoshone County, ID4-5John Baumann
June 28-July 1Annual Butterfly Study Weekend, Colville  
July 27Bethel Ridge, Yakima County Jim Reed
August 2 (Friday) Rain will cancel.Mt. Townsend, Olympic National Forest. We will hike about 2 miles uphill to the subalpine meadows. Stay overnight in Sequim or Port Angeles and get 2 field trips in one trip to the Olympic Peninsula! See next item.4-5 steep and unrelentingRegina Johnson
August 3Deer Park and Blue Mtn., Olympic National Park (no nets). Subalpine meadows. Warning: Deer Park Road is notorious for being steep, nar- row and scary.2-3Jim Reed

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.