Category: Study Weekend
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2019 WBA Study Weekend
Join us for a weekend of exciting field trips at Colville, Washington this summer! Timed at the peak of the season, June 28-30, this study weekend merges two great statewide butterfly events, the Annual NABA 4th of July Butterfly Count at Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge and one or two adventurous field days near…
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2018 Idie Ulsh Young Naturalist Scholarship Winners
All of us who attended the WBA Study Weekend at White Salmon, Washington, were really delighted to welcome three new scholarship winners along on our field trips. These young entomologists in the making each received free registration to the conference, room and board, an annual WBA family membership and compensation for transportation expenses, as well…
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2018 WBA Study Weekend Report
2018 Wings Over White Salmon The Butterfly Study Weekend And what a glorious weekend it was. Although it was not the conference that we thought it would be when the Board first decided on the location. We had originally thought of Bird Creek Meadows of Mt. Adams fame being the focus of study. As the…
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List of butterflies seen at our 2018 butterfly weekend at White Salmon
More than 50 WBA members and friends had a very successful sunny and hot weekend with butterflies during July 14-16 at White Salmon, WA and nearby areas along the Columbia Gorge. We visited two meadows at around 3000 ft near the Great Lava Bed as well as meadows near Takhlakh lake in the shadow of…
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2018 WBA Study Weekend
Mt Adams and the Gorge White Salmon, Washington, July 13-16, 2018 At the WBA fall retreat, the board discussed a lot of fun possible sites, and ended up with Mt Adams/Bird Creek Meadows, the Gorge and Oregon options at Mt Hood as our preferred destination. Tom Landis will be delivering our keynote on the topic…
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2017 WBA Study Weekend Report
Ellensburg/Teanaway Well the 2017 annual conference for the WA Butterfly Association is behind us. From all accounts I have received it was a success. The Swauk-Teanaway Grange was a lovely location and the setting was bucolic. The weather treated us well-not too hot, not too cold. The final species list was quite impressive, a full…
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President’s Message: Wallowas Study Weekend
WBA’s 2016 conference participants literally drove further and climbed higher than in any previous WBA event: on reaching the lovely alpine zone habitats atop Mount Howard in the Wallowas of northeast Oregon, we reached an altitude of 8500 feet. Moreover, many of us had driven 300 miles or more to make it on this boldest…
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2016 WBA Study Weekend
Wallowa Mountains Our board member, Dr. David James, will introduce us to one his family’s most beloved vacation destinations for our annual WBA conference. Mark August 5-7, 2016 for a trip to northeastern Oregon for a weekend of quite stunningly beautiful field days on and around the peaks of the Wallowa Mountains, where we hope…
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2015 WBA Study Weekend Report
Omak – Okanogan Over 50 enthusiastic butterfliers, including 5 children, converged on the Okanogan area for three days of field trips and a presentation Saturday night by Dr. Dave McCorkle on his research with the Johnson’s Hairstreak. The heat was 109 degrees in Omak on Saturday, yet we saw leaping, running, and dynamic net styles…
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2015 WBA Study Weekend
Omak, June 26- 28 For our sixteenth annual conference, we return this June to Okanogan country – the land of shrub-steppe, dry forests, and butterfly diversity. We gather for lectures on Friday and Saturday nights at the Okanogan Grange; 305 Tyee St.; Okanogan. Lodging can be found in nearby Omak, and camping is scattered throughout…
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2014 WBA Study Weekend Report – Moscow, Idaho
This was a great year and location for frits, hairstreaks, checkerspots! Our Saturday walk, by permit, in paper company land east of Potlatch, ID, proved to be a springtime wonderland adventure in acreage of blooming camas at Macumber Meadows. As it turned out, several colorful butterfly species enjoy these flowers for their nectar. The second…
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2014 WBA Study Weekend
Fifteenth Annual Study Weekend – Moscow, Idaho May 30 – June 1, 2014 This year we delve into new territory near Moscow, Idaho. The familiar rolling grain fields of the Palouse quickly give way to foothills and hills east of Moscow, transitioning to mountains and eventually the Rocky Mountains of Montana. Nearby Moscow Mt., at…
