Happy New Year!

Winter solstice is behind us and the days are growing longer once again. Butterflies will soon be gracing our gardens and wild meadows with their presence. We are finalizing the details for our upcoming summer field season, including field trips and our summer study weekend July 13-15. White Salmon is the location for the evenings, and lodging can be found in Hood River, OR and Stevenson, WA. WBA will not be reserving a block of rooms this year as there is no price break in this location at that season so make your reservations NOW, for the July 13-15 Butterfly Study week-end/Conference. You will get better rates individually than the hotels are willing to give to a group. More formal registration details are to come, but grab your lodging early-you can always cancel if your plans change.

I am about halfway through my term as president of Washington Butterfly Association after having served on the board of directors last year. As I spend more time with all of you and the WBA board, I increasingly appreciate the community we have in WBA.

As an organization, we are in transition from a Seattle based group to a statewide organization. One of the ways we are doing this is increasing our use of internet technology. We now have a board of directors distributed across the state.

Monthly board meetings are conducted using the conference software “ZOOM”. We are also learning how to use this software to make our membership meetings accessible to members and interested individuals across the state-not just those living in Seattle and Spokane. I think the use of technology such as ZOOM can be a game changer for us, both in terms of recruiting speakers from across the US and beyond, but also because it makes WBA more meaningful to you, our members, in that you can login from the comfort of your own home and participate in high quality presentations.

Learn with us as we move into this new frontier!

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