Some of our members are out telling the world about butterflies and WBA. In the past year Idie Ulsh has given butterfly programs for Eastside Audubon, Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society, St. Albans Girl Scout FOSA training, Master Gardening training and several garden clubs throughout the Olympic Peninsula/Quimper Peninsula/Puget Sound area and recently at the Othello Crane Festival and Community Cultural Center of Tonasket, Like her Spokane talk ahead of last year’s conference, the Tonasket talk helps publicize this year’s conference in nearby Oroville.

John Baumann talked on butterflies at the Spokane Audubon Society in March with about70 people showing up, including three carloads from Coeur d’ Alene. He will host two butterfly walks this summer, one at Turnbull Wildlife refuge and another at a new easement acquired by the Inland Northwest Land Trust.

And again this year, Martha Robinson is leading a butterfly field trip at Gary Grant Soos Creek Park in Kent (Saturday, June 30, 3:00 to 4:30pm).

As a result of these talks, we’ve received several new memberships.

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