Flathead CORE
March 9, 2016
Mary Jo Gardner (retired
teacher), Laura Law (Glacier NP), Kathy Martin (Hockaday), Lisa Flowers
(Educator), Melissa Sladek (Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center),
Sheena Pate (Crown of the Continent GeoTourism), Teresa Wenum (Flathead NF),
Patti Mason, Tyler McCrae (Glacier Institute)
1. Website- The art mobile needs to be added to the
local providers list. Teresa needs to confirm: Women and Timber (OK as is), MT
for Multiple Use- just keep as is; need to change society of American foresters
to the local website (Mary Jo will do). Mary Jo will also contact MT Logging
Assoc. about their listing.
a. It would be great if volunteers could do some new
ÒfeaturedÓ articles for the website. Laura said one of her winter volunteers
put together one on winter ÒsoundsÓ
article that it is probably kind of late for this year but could still post to
rotate through next year. Kathy said she would consider doing something for a
spring article – maybe wildlife photography or something on Elizabeth
Walker.
b. Laura has a volunteer who did an article about winter
sounds. Kathy is pretty busy right now but still might be able to do one about
art. Perhaps an article from Swan Valley Connections about their merger? Teresa
said she can ask them.
c. We could also post on the website the date for next
yearÕs Winter
Trails Day, January 14,
2017 and the date for the trunk workshop, 10/20/2016.
d. To get information on the website, Mary Jo and Sheena
have been the leads on that. You can email Mary Jo directly at [email protected].
e. Mary Jo can put photos on website but folks need to
make sure they have photo releases. For Winter Trails Day and the Flathead CORE
trunk workshop we need to make sure we donÕt take photos of people who sign
that they donÕt give permission.
2. Mary Jo did a summary of the evaluations from the
trunk workshop. The date for the workshop next year is October 20, 2016. Sheena
Pate and Mary Jo Gardner are coordinating and they are way ahead of the game!
United Way space is the preferred spot to have the workshop at. If interested
in helping with the workshop contact Sheenat Pate at: [email protected] .
3. Earth Day – Glacier Park Lodges and Citizens
for a Better Flathead are coordinating another event in Whitefish this year. It
sounds like Citizens for a Better Flathead is planning something for April 22
(movie night) -23 (Saturday fair) and then Whitefish again with up to 30 booths
and hands-on activities. Jeff Mow
is going to be a keynote speaker. There will be a partnership with ÒClean the
Fish.Ó Woodsy Owl will be there and
the Glacier NP Green Team and Centennial SCA Ambassador will be there. Audubon
will have a presence there and many others that I am sure IÕm missing here in
the notes.
4. Bioblitz at FVCC- same day as the Whitefish event.
Teresa said FNF will be assisting with support for the bioblitz this year. They
had some funding to help with tents, porta pots, microscopes and probably some
resource specialists. She is still working on details. The date is April 23,
2016 at the FVCC Campus from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. It sounds like Glacier High
School teachers and students and some 4th grade students will be
participating.
5. Arbor Day – Parks and Rec. are having something
Friday, April 29th for 3rd graders at Lawrence Park.
6. National Park Week- April 16 – 23 and it is
free entrance days at national parks all week.
7. Forestry Expo. Is May 2-7th, 2016 – Emails
and calls are now starting to sign up to help with this annual event.
8. MEEA – Conference is approaching
quickly. Sounds like some folks from Glacier are going on their own time. Tyler
McCrae from Glacier Institute would like to car pool with someone. BTW, Happy
belated birthday Tyler!
9. Watershed Sourcebook Curriculum (middle school)
– Based on each chapter of the Sourcebook, there are inter-disciplinary
/hands-on lessons. It is out there and being tested by teachers through May
2016. If other teachers want to review it, they should contact Valerie at
Flathead Conservation District. Laura suggested that final lessons could be put
on the CORE website. She saw Lori Curtis and Walt and mentioned that to them.
Kari Musgrove is no longer working at FCD so Laura will add Valerie to the CORE
mailing list.
10. COCEEC
– Melissa is taking down the COCEEC website. There will be a notice on it
for 3 months about the groupÕs de-banding. She will use wording from the email
that went to all the COCEEC participants. The CORE website can host the
activities that were on the COCEEC site. Laura and Lisa can still forward
requests that come to the CORE website to the appropriate people in the COCE.
Laura will have to check to see why Lisa isnÕt getting any of the CORE
emails. On further research, it
turns out they are being forwarded to the [email protected] address. There was a suggestion that the crownofthecontinent.org
may also be a good place to put a
note about what Flathead CORE does and to try contacting [email protected] if folks have a question about COCEEC.
11. ÒDisover Glacier through Science and Culture,Ó June Teacher Workshop at Glacier Institute Field Camp. This is GNPC grant funded project and please spread
the word to teachers about it. There are 32 OPI Renewal Units for participating
and we are applying for university credit. A pdf of the draft schedule is
available for download from this web page.
12. Forest for Every Classroom – still hoping to
kick it off in 2018 with 2017 being a planning year. We donÕt really know how
many teachers in our area would be interested and have the time required.
Perhaps that can be included in the planning year? Laura is going to submit a 2017
– 2020 request to the GNPC for funding additional admin. support and
possibly time for teachers to stay at the Glacier Institute Field Camp or Big
Creek sites for a couple of the workshop dates.
Round Robin-we ran out of time for
this so here is information from last meeting that is still pertinent.
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FCD from last
meeting: Flood Day for 100, 9th graders is scheduled for April 21.
On April 6, speakers about FlatheadÕs Deep Aquifer will be at FVCC courtesy of
the Flathead Basin River Commission.
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Flathead Lake
Biological Station from last meeting: There is new Flathead Lake map. They are
for sale for $20 and can be purchased through Tom.
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CoC GeoTourism: Steven
Gnam exhibit will be at Gov. Conference April 8th-12th in Kalispell and is at SheenaÕs house so
she will make it available for other venues in our area between now and then,
just contact her if you have space for it.
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Road Scholar
from last meeting: Vicki Forristal, 871-1729, [email protected] , is new coordinator
for Road Scholar and they are now hiring for this season.
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Augubon from
last meeting: Lisa is re-doing trunks and they will still be checked-out at
coop.
May and September Meetings
May 18, 4
– 5:30 p.m., NEW LOCATION:
LAWRENCE PARK
shelter. Hope for good weather! If someone has it reserved, we will just run
over to Hockaday.
Sept. 21, 2016, location
TBA.